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Is Siri Making Aliyah?

As of last night, Israeli Apple fans are ecstatic, no less. Siri, Apple’s voice
assistant, which has already changed usage patterns around the world, is in
initial processes to learn Hebrew. At the moment Siri can tell using the
holy language what the weather is, and can dial, send messages and search
for information on the internet for us. For more complex requests, she has
a hard time responding. Siri came into existence in two thousand eleven
and enabled (us) to operate many apps using just voice commands.
Starting with reminders and up to emails, contacts, music and more.
Initially it supported English, French, German and Japanese, and very
slowly enriched its vocabulary in more languages. In the world Siri can
already give information about sports games results, and allows (you) to
book reservations in restaurants. In Hebrew, the official version is only
supposed to launch in about three months, and up until then, it has time to
become more intricate.

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