Tuesday, June 7, 2022

iOS 16: New Language Features

Apple has published a preview of the new features in iOS 16 to be released in the fall. For the language area these additions include:

System Languages: Bulgarian and Kazakh

Keyboard languages: Apache, Dzongkha, Samoan, Yiddish

Dictionaries: Bangla–English, Czech–English, Finnish–English, Hungarian–English, Kannada–English, Malayalam–English, and Turkish–English

Translation: Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, Polish, Indonesian, and Dutch

Live Text: Japanese, Korean, and Ukrainian

VoiceOver and Text to Speech: More than 20 additional languages and locales, including Bengali (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese

Chinese: Cantonese input using Jyupting and other phonetic methods, Quickpath for Traditional Chinese Pinyin, Changyong layout for Shuangpin users, Sichuanese dialect support.

MacOS 13 Ventura: New Language Features

Apple has published a preview of the new features in MacOS 13 Ventura to be released in the fall. For the language area these additions include:

System Languages: Bulgarian and Kazakh

Keyboard languages: Apache, Dzongkha, Samoan, Yiddish

Dictionaries: Bangla–English, Czech–English, Finnish–English, Hungarian–English, Kannada–English, Malayalam–English, and Turkish–English

Translation: Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, Polish, Indonesian, and Dutch

Live Text: Japanese, Korean, and Ukrainian

VoiceOver and Text to Speech: More than 20 additional languages and locales, including Bengali (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese

Chinese: Cantonese input using Jyupting and other phonetic methods, Sichuanese dialect support, Changyong input for Shuangpin users.