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Re:Amazon Lex – Conversational interfaces for your applications by alexmingoia on Monday December 05, 2016 @06:54PM (#13111021)
Yes, only US English. It's quite unfortunate that the most commonly spoken language on earth - Mandarin - has such poor speech recognition. Using Google Translate or Siri with Mandarin is almost useless. Hopefully people start throwing more resources towards Mandarin speech technology.
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Re:Amazon Lex – Conversational interfaces for your applications by pmontra on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @01:47AM (#13112714)
It also leaves most of Europe uncovered. I can only use Lex for demos there, no commercial services. People want to speak their own language and an English only service will always lose against a native language one. Hopefully they'll add other languages.

Did any non US English native speaker experience Amazon's language recognition? I assume it understands your language easily, but does it?

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Re:Amazon Lex – Conversational interfaces for your applications by zitterbewegung on Monday December 05, 2016 @07:03PM (#13111073)
Wouldn't Baidu or other Chinese companies have an interest ? Also is Mandarin harder to recognize due to its structure ?
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