Apple Siri News

With iOS 18, Apple's Siri will be able to understand Indian English commands combined with phrases from nine languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu.

As per the reports, the team, currently based in San Diego, is facing a relocation request to Austin, Texas. Apple wants the San Diego squad to merge with its Texas counterpart.

In 2015, Google Assistant launched a feature of sending WhatsApp messages with voice. Apple Siri introduced this feature in 2016. In order to activate the voice assistant, you have to say Hey Google or OK Google.

The social media was quick to assume this was another example of Apple`s alleged anti-China bias. users in China are aware of the pressure on Apple from the US Congress. Siri had a bug which meant it would only read out the name of one country if two had the same number of medals.

Now, AI in smartphones is nothing new. Apple`s Siri, Samsung`s Bixby and Google`s very own Google Assistant are evolving as people communicate with their devices.

Users will be able to turn to their Echo device and say, "Alexa, open Cortana," or turn to their Windows 10 device and say, "Cortana, open Alexa," the companies said in a statement.

Taking another foray into the field of artificial intelligence (AI) AND machine learning and to make its digital assistant Siri better, Apple has acquired Seattle-based machine learning startup Turi for nearly $200 million.

Apple said Monday it was opening up its Siri digital assistant to outside applications, stepping up its artificial intelligence efforts to compete against rival services from Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

Apple already boasts strong brand awareness in the Middle East.

Middle class and first time smartphone buyers in emerging markets such as India and China were among the major drivers of iPhone sales in January-March period with the momentum expected to continue, Apple CEO Tim Cook has said.

Apple Inc beat Wall Street`s revenue and profit forecasts on Monday as it sold more iPhones in China than the United States for the first time, but the company gave no sales figures for its new Apple Watch.

Apple has won an appeal in China over patent rights to voice recognition software such as the iPhone`s "Siri", with a court overruling an earlier decision that had gone against the US technology giant.

A report has said that Apple may bring in a "revamped Apple TV" at its World Wide Developers Conference in June.

Cortana, a competitor to Apple's 'Siri', will be available in India under a new "alpha" programme in India, Australia and Canada where people can try Cortana using English language models from the US and the UK.