Siri will soon be taught to speak Russian

The voice assistant Siri, to which Apple equips the iPhone 4s smartphones, is about to learn new languages. Among them, Russian, Japanese, as well as the Mandarinsky dialect of the Chinese language, reports Vesti.ru .

According to some reports, the Siri linguistic abilities will expand in the next month. Such data was informally shared by one of the Apple specialists working on the implementation of Chinese support.

Currently, Siri "knows" only English, German and French. Apple promised during 2012 to realize the support of Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Italian and Spanish. The Russian was not about Russian.

In addition, according to the source, Siri will also learn to provide information about shops, cafes, cinemas, etc., as well as lay routes outside the United States. Currently, this function is limited by the "home" market of Apple.

At first, many mistakenly accepted Siri as the usual function of the vocal recognition, which the Google Android, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 platform offers their users. But Siri turned out to be not just the function of “vocal recognition”, it quickly turned out that it has artificial intelligence, which helps to understand the user's commands and answer his questions - a competent one And witty.

The work of Siri, acquired by Apple, together with the company of the same name, founded by immigrants from the SRI - International Center for Artificial Intelligence of Stanford University, is built on the technology of speech recognition, artificial intelligence of the Wolfram Alpha system and close integration with other applications installed in the iPhone 4s.

Wolfram Alpha was launched by the famous scientist Stephen Wolfram in May 2009. It is based on the mechanism of one of the most popular Mathematica computer algebra programs. The system does not try to find an existing response to the entered request on the network, but “calculates” it independently, using data from numerous open sources. Information is processed through several million algorithms, after which the user is provided with an answer to the search query.

Without resorting to a web post, the system can, for example, answer questions like "What is the speed of the fastest in the world of the car?", "How many Americans are called Andrew?" Or make a forecast of the economic development of a particular country. The search engine also knows how to solve equations. According to the creators of the system, it is able to answer questions related to science, technology, cooking, business, music and other areas of human knowledge.

However, he also knows how to handle search queries in Google Siri, and the results will be linked to the current location of the user.