Garmin Turn-by-Turn Navigation: I thought that I'd miss out on not having a full map display, but I really appreciate the simple elegance of the turn arrows and green ring.It effectively fades into the background when not in use. The hardware is tiny, much smaller than I expected.This thing rocks for road trips! My son thinks it's funny to bark orders at Alexa from the backseat. I'd love to have Spotify, but the other music services meet my needs. I love having access to Pandora, Amazon Music, SiriusXM, Audible, TuneIn… I'm pretty much set for entertainment.I don't have to pull my phone out of my pocket every time I want to start driving somewhere. Alexa in the car! What's not to like? Just sit down and start talking.I can control my thermostat and lights from the road with just my voice… I feel like I live in the future :) I have to admit: I really like the convenience of this gadget. The biggest battle in voice assistants may be coming to the sub-continent right now.Ok, so I've been driving around with Speak for about a week now and I think I've got a good feel for what it can do. Adding Hindi to Alexa’s options is a solid strategy for Amazon to keep and grow its lead there, but competition is getting more intense as Google Assistant launched its own support for Hindi just a day after Alexa’s announcement.
Tools like Cleo can be useful for teaching Alexa new languages, but it will be some time before Alexa can speak to everyone in India in their native tongue.Īt the moment, Alexa-powered smart speakers are the majority brand in India, with nearly two-thirds of the market according to a report in March from IDC. There are approximately 22 major languages spoken in the country, and plenty of less widely spoken languages, not to mention dialects. Hindi is the single largest language spoken in India, but hardly the only one. The idea being that multilingual households could ask Alexa a question in Hindi or English and the voice assistant would understand which language is being used and respond accordingly.
The next step will be to make Alexa responsive to different languages without changing the settings. He and Toni Reid are generally credited for leading the creation of Alexa, and he introduced the new feature at an Amazon press event in India this week. Prasad’s direct involvement in the project likely helped speed up Alexa’s learning of Hindi due to his stature at Amazon. “We look forward to Alexa delighting our Hindi-speaking customers and working with developers in India to invent many more Hindi skills.” We are also grateful to Indian customers who contributed to Hindi development through the Cleo skill,” said Alexa AI vice president and head scientist Rohit Prasad said in a statement. We are thrilled to bring a suite of AI advances in multilingual understanding so that customers can interact with Alexa in different regional variants of colloquial Hindi. “India has uniquely challenged our AI teams with its cultural and linguistic diversity. The voice assistant’s ability to speak those languages improved as those phrases in different languages, dialects, and accents were added to its database. The Cleo app Amazon debuted last year prompted users to translate sentences in English into local languages in a kind of game form. The Alexa developers used crowdsourcing to help build the Hindi language model. For now, there’s only one voice option in Hindi. Users can ask Alexa to set up Hindi or change their settings on the Alexa app to adjust the language spoken by the voice assistant. Now, Alexa can carry on conversations in Hindi, including the more than 500 skills in that language in the Alexa skill store. Although Alexa understood local place names, titles of songs, and related terms in several local Indian languages, the actual commands and conversation were all held in English. Previously Alexa users in India had to use English to interact with the voice assistant. Any Alexa-enabled device can be adjusted to speak Hindi. Alexa now also offers full support for the Hindi and English hybrid language Hinglish. Two years after launching Alexa in India, Amazon’s voice assistant now speaks Hindi, the language spoken by more than 500 million people in India.
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