Your page When Apple unveiled iOS 9 earlier in the week they spent a lot of time talking about that voice assistant Siri is going to be smarter and will among other things be able to provide you with information you need before you need it, just like Google’s Google Now.
The most exciting news from a Norwegian perspective, that was not mentioned with a single word, however, is that Siri will finally come into Norwegian edition.
Thus, Apple’s voice assistant the first to support Norwegian fully out before both Google Now and Microsoft Cortana.
Four years waiting
Siri was introduced in 2011 with the iPhone 4S, and to begin with there was only support for English, French and German.
Over the years, more and more languages been added, but not Norwegian. Unfair think of course we, all the time one of Siris entrepreneurs, Dag Kittlaus, the Norwegian idea, and service should be named after the famous meteorologist Siri Kalvig.
As if that were not enough, given both the Swedes and Danes access earlier this spring in an update of iOS 8.
Coming this fall
NORWEGIAN ENGELSK: Here is the new language selection discovered in the beta version of iOS 9, released in fall sometime.
iOS 9 going to fall, but the first beta version is already released for developers. It is in this that one has discovered that the Norwegian Siri support is in place.
We let us tempt to try, although installing unfinished software always carries a risk that bits and bobs stops working as it should.
“Hi Siri”
After updating to iOS 9 on a test iPhone pretty painless, we went into the settings for Siri and found the new language selection, ” Norwegian Bokmål “, chose it and went out again. Then it was only to ask and get responses from Siri on fully understandable Norwegian.
If you do not know it, there are two ways to activate Siri on.
The most common is to press and hold the home button (you may have done this by mistake and annoyed to know that you’ve got up Siri).
You can also just say “Hi Siri,” but then the device must be connected to a charger.
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Struggling slightly with the pronunciation
NATURAL QUESTION: : It is intended that you should be able to talk to Siri as you would a person with a natural voice. Here is some of what you can ask.
At Siris Norwegian skills are not as well developed as they English is easy to hear at once. With four years in the butt for the latter, it is entirely.
She is clearly more robot-like voice, and read even foreign words in Norwegian. For example, “iPhone” to “ipone”.
Anyone who has had a Norwegian GPS navigator on overseas vacation, you know how it sounds.
It is well away from sounding like “Samantha” in Spike Jonze movie Here, to speak.
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But understand us well
We still think she is surprisingly good at interpreting what we say right, just like iOS ‘Norwegian dictation function.Sometimes we see that what we say is read incorrectly, but after some thought she manages nonetheless to understand what we meant. We experience albeit the US edition as more accurate in this respect.
How well she understands various Norwegian dialects, we do not know. My oslo dialect seems to be no problem, but it may well be it is quite the opposite for one of Indre Sogn. (Do you have any experiences, part gladly in the comments below!)
It is also so that the more you use Siri, the better she will understand you, according to Apple, that taught her up with time.
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Some defects
FUN: Apple has voice assistant with a number of answers that can make you laugh. They have also allowed themselves to translate into Norwegian.
We have not quite been spared for errors; sometimes it goes a little slow, but it is not good to say about it due to problems on Apple’s side or with our own network connection.
Hopefully the worst mistakes weeded out by official release.
Norwegian Siri can not be used as much as the US. The USA has some additional features, for example, she can search look up sports scores or making restaurant bookings.
We also miss Wolfram Alpha integration, making it possible to get direct answers to questions like what capital Norway is, who is the president of the United States, how many calories there are in a brownie, how much $ 100 is in Norwegian kroner and so on.
At the moment seeking Siri only the entire phrase in Bing Search Engine .
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View video
In the video below you can see Norwegian Siri in action. A relatively successful attempt, although slipping slightly towards the end.
Will we use it?
To control your phone with your voice in the public sphere is about as socially acceptable as it take picture with tablet, ie not fine at all. It draws dog up that we can now speak Norwegian instead ofI certainly benefit of such get Siri to send an email, fill in rikitig sender address, subject line and the the contents of the mail, as I walked down the street, so I could concentrate more on what happened on the road instead of the mobile screen.
It is perhaps even more useful while driving, as long as we are not allowed to use cell phones if we’re behind the wheel, but of course do it anyway.
Pro-tip: You look a little more normal if you put on earplugs and use handsfree feature to talk.
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