Monday, March 12, 2012

iOS 5.1 Adds Language Features

iOS 5.1 released March 7 adds some new language features, but only for certain devices: the iPad 3 gets dictation in US/UK/Australian English, French, German, and Japanese. The iPhone 4S gets Siri functions in Japanese in addition to the languages provided earlier (English, French, German).

I don't have devices with these features, but I understand that for Siri the language is selected in Settings / General / Siri / Language.  Also the keyboard should be set to the language being spoken.  Internet access is required.

2 comments:

Magnus Lewan said...

Did you by any chance figure out how to activate Australian voice recognition? I can switch between US and UK with the keyboard. However, I cannot find any Australian keyboard.

Tom Gewecke said...

Magnus -- Sorry, no. You are right, no keyboard for Australian. Maybe the region setting? I don't have a device that supports the dictation feature.