苹果语音助手Siri学说上海话

Siri can speak twenty-one languages， who will start to learn the Shanghainese.

Siri会21种语言， 现在将学说上海话。

Siri is the oldest of the voice service， and researchers including Oren Etzioni， chief executive officer of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle， said Apple has lost its lead when it comes to understanding speech and answering questions.

But there is at least one thing Siri can do that the other assistants cannot： speak 21 languages localized for 36 countries， a very important capability in a smartphone market where most sales are outside the United States.

Microsoft Cortana， by contrast， has 8 languages tailored for 13 countries. Googles Assistant， which began in its Pixel phone but has moved to other Android devices， speaks 4 languages. Amazons Alexa features only English and German. Siri will even soon start to learn Shanghainese， a special dialect of Wu Chinese spoken only around Shanghai.

Siri是語音服务的老前辈。许多研究人员，包括位于西雅图的艾伦人工智能研究所的首席执行官奥伦·埃齐奥尼在内，都认为在语音识别和回答问题方面，苹果的领先优势已消耗殆尽。

不过，至少有一件事是Siri可以但其竞争对手做不到的，即会说36个国家的21种本地语言。这个功能在智能手机市场至关重要，因为大部分智能手机都是销往美国以外的地区的。

微软小娜（智能助理）为13个国家定制了8种语言。谷歌语音助手会说4种语言，该服务一开始只在谷歌自家的Pixel手机里有，后来又应用到其他安卓设备。亚马孙的Alexa只会说英语和德语。而Siri甚至马上要开始学说上海话了，这是一种只在上海及其周边地区使用的吴语方言。endprint