The smart voice assistant Apple could already speak Dutch since iOS 8.3, but then stiff Dutch of our neighbors. The assistant seems therefore to have in some cases struggled to understand Flemish users.
There was no difference of language in Belgium and the Netherlands, while it is the case with the English Siri include the difference between British and American, as well as Australian English. That changes with iOS 9. Starting this fall are iPhone users than the rather dry Dutch men dominated select a Flemish woman’s voice in the Settings menu.
It is the voice of Libelia The Splenter , which presented many years on Studio Brussel. “I have just discovered this morning that I’m the Siri voice,” she says. “When I heard that Apple wanted to unpack a Flemish voice I guessed it would be mine.”
Her sounds were in fact long ago recognized the voice software from Lernout & amp; Hauspie. After the bankruptcy of the company from Ypres speech was resold her voice and since then the voice pops up regularly in many speech applications. Now she is also the familiar voice of Siri.
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The computer-controlled Flemish voice incidentally, sounds a bit rough. Certain statements, such as English-language song titles and artists, also do not sound so beautiful. The English Siri got the last years many improvements to sound much more natural. That’s when the Dutch Siri clearly not the case.
Siri gets iOS 9 a lot of new features, including a Proactive Assistant, which notifies users when they have to leave for an appointment and those invitations in emails automatically turns on the calendar.
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