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I really wish all the voice dictation/transcription had better language support. I'd really like to be able to say "Send a message to <my wife> in Spanish" and

I really wish all the voice dictation/transcription had better language support. I'd really like to be able to say "Send a message to <my wife> in Spanish" and have it use Spanish dictation, and similarly to say "Read the last message in Spanish" when I'm using CarPlay. Perhaps at some point soon it will just get good enough that it'll detect which language is being used automatically, but right now it's pretty annoying for dual-language households.

yunohn 3y ago
Most of Big Tech is sleeping on multilingual support, purely because the USA is still their primary revenue stream. Someday, they’ll start focusing on the rest of the world and we’ll see real advancements in this space…
- vinay_ys 3y ago
  Most of USA doesn't speak English as their first language, isn't it?
  - throwaway019254 3y ago
    What do you mean? Of course they do.
  - yunohn 3y ago
    Yep, it baffles me too. But as we can observe - Big Tech can totally ignore multilingual support and still make billions of dollars!
  - threeseed 3y ago
    78.5% of Americans speak English at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States
  - DANmode 3y ago
    Easily the most intriguing mistake I've seen in months.
- pjmlp 3y ago
  To this day I never bothered with speech reckognition, I am not going to talk to my devices in english, and understanding Portuguese, Spanish and German, never really works.
  - yunohn 3y ago
    Multilingual support extends much further than just assistant speech recognition - translation and transliteration, keyboard input, media captioning are places where I find current OSes lacking.
- moooo99 3y ago
  But I’m surprised they’re still sleeping in this considering Apple expects it’s highest growth markets to be outside the English speaking part of the world
- joshspankit 3y ago
  I think it’s less about revenue stream and more about dev’s languages. There are many tech companies who’s primary revenue stream is China, for example, but in those cases they still don’t need multilingual support nor even devs who speak Chinese.
sinuhe69 3y ago
Yeah. And the keyboard support for multi-languages is horrible, too. The prediction is nowadays so bad, I have to tiền it off or must use a single language only. Alone the notion that it should predict words in a different language than the current setting is baffling for me.
- cassianoleal 3y ago
  > The prediction is nowadays so bad, I have to tiền it off This is great! I assume prediction gone wrong on "tiền". :) It matches my experience as well, to the point that I also have it turned off.
  - sinuhe69 3y ago
    Of course, I wanted to write “turn”, but the Apple keyboard was supposedly so smart, it had changed my word into something completely nonsensical
mantas 3y ago
Overall smaller languages is abysmal. Microsoft translated Windows to my native language decades ago. MacOS still not translated. Nor iPhone. While Android phones come with translation out-of-box for most manufacturers UIs.
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yunohn 3y ago

Most of Big Tech is sleeping on multilingual support, purely because the USA is still their primary revenue stream. Someday, they’ll start focusing on the rest of the world and we’ll see real advancements in this space…

vinay_ys 3y ago
Most of USA doesn't speak English as their first language, isn't it?
- throwaway019254 3y ago
  What do you mean? Of course they do.
- yunohn 3y ago
  Yep, it baffles me too. But as we can observe - Big Tech can totally ignore multilingual support and still make billions of dollars!
- threeseed 3y ago
  78.5% of Americans speak English at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States
- DANmode 3y ago
  Easily the most intriguing mistake I've seen in months.
pjmlp 3y ago
To this day I never bothered with speech reckognition, I am not going to talk to my devices in english, and understanding Portuguese, Spanish and German, never really works.
- yunohn 3y ago
  Multilingual support extends much further than just assistant speech recognition - translation and transliteration, keyboard input, media captioning are places where I find current OSes lacking.
moooo99 3y ago
But I’m surprised they’re still sleeping in this considering Apple expects it’s highest growth markets to be outside the English speaking part of the world
joshspankit 3y ago
I think it’s less about revenue stream and more about dev’s languages. There are many tech companies who’s primary revenue stream is China, for example, but in those cases they still don’t need multilingual support nor even devs who speak Chinese.

sinuhe69 3y ago

Yeah. And the keyboard support for multi-languages is horrible, too. The prediction is nowadays so bad, I have to tiền it off or must use a single language only. Alone the notion that it should predict words in a different language than the current setting is baffling for me.

cassianoleal 3y ago
> The prediction is nowadays so bad, I have to tiền it off This is great! I assume prediction gone wrong on "tiền". :) It matches my experience as well, to the point that I also have it turned off.
- sinuhe69 3y ago
  Of course, I wanted to write “turn”, but the Apple keyboard was supposedly so smart, it had changed my word into something completely nonsensical

mantas 3y ago

Overall smaller languages is abysmal. Microsoft translated Windows to my native language decades ago. MacOS still not translated. Nor iPhone. While Android phones come with translation out-of-box for most manufacturers UIs.

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