The strine stringybark swagman cadence of the broad Australian accent that’s got your baby in its mouth has long been an inscrutable point of confusion for everyone from toffy English people, this bewildered Yahoo Answers user, Hollywood actors, and Apple’s in-house voice recognition department.
But that’s all about to change.
Siri, the polygamous smartphone voice assistant du jour who loves telling you where all the cool new gluten-free jazz bars are but hates Scarlett Johansson’s voice acting, will soon speak in a more ocker Australian register with Apple delivering an updated beta version of its upcoming iOS 7.1 update to developers last week.
The update includes bug fixes (which probably relate to Siri’s ability to comprehend what the fuck you are actually saying) as well as an updated set of locale-specific voice banks, relating specifically to “natural-sounding” Australian English, U.K. English, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, according to AppleInsider.
In other words, a little more like this…
No, just joking. That would be terrible. More like this…
Other updates (which sadly have nothing to do with the ability to kill Jenna Maroney) are expected to be announced next month.
Via Apple Insider
