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Apple speech team head explains how Siri learns a new language

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<p>One area where Apple is the undisputed king of the personal assistant space is localization; Siri supports twenty four languages across 36 country dialects. In contrast, Google’s Assistant can only understand five languages and Alexa (popularized by the Amazon Echo) just two, English and German.</p>
<p>iOS 10.3 is introducing another language, Shanghainese, extending its international advantage even more. In an interview with Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-siri-idUSKBN16G0H3?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=technologyNews&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtechnologyNews+%28Reuters+Technology+News%29), Apple’s head of speech explains how Siri is taught to learn a whole new language …</p>
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