Published 16:35 IST, October 9th 2019
Amazon Alexa now understands and speaks Hindi and even Hinglish
If you think that your Alexa is bilingual, try asking her the current temperature, traffic conditions, even the weather outside. These need to be in Hinglish.
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much-awaited Amazon Alexa functionality that makes popular personal digital assistant (PDA) understand and speak both Hindi and English (even Hinglish) is w live. This means that users would be able to talk to PD in both langus without having to resort to tweaking langu settings each time langu is to be changed. langu settings could w be enabled just once, with this new functionality ded.
Amazon Alexa - multilingual
As far as content is concerned, this would be varied – viz Panchatantra stories, dialogues of Bollywood, jokes, music, and more. However, a major USP of PDA is its ability to control homes in case se are smart. This includes likes of Alexa being used to dim lights at home. Alexa having gone bilingual, should bring cheers to Amazon users preferring content in Indian langus – more than in English. To have this new multilingual mode up and running, a software update is required to bring Alexa closer to speaking Hindi and English almost flawlessly. In fact, seeking Alexa’s help to have her multi-lingual mode set up is ar good idea to implement.
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If you think that your Alexa is rey to go bilingual, do try asking her current temperature, traffic conditions, or even wear outside. se need to be in both English and Hindi – on a random basis. Finally, it should definitely do Amazon a world of good in case Alexa is me proficient with all classical langus of India. In related news, Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale is slated to begin from 13 October. As usual, re would be huge “oretical” discount on various devices/ggets such as smartphones and laptops. But how much of se are practical, is worth pondering over at this juncture.
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15:07 IST, October 9th 2019