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Re:The Google Assistant is going global by danimal88 on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:15PM (#16449699)
I suspect this is less about difficulty and more about markets. Simply put, my guess is that there is a decent reliance on google services which are banned in China.
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Re:The Google Assistant is going global by eximius on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:45PM (#16450618)
That may deprioritize it, but it is still the third most spoken language in the US[1]. Yes, it is less important than many European languages, but it will still be important even if you completely ignore China.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States

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Re:The Google Assistant is going global by dorfsmay on Saturday February 24, 2018 @07:52AM (#16453055)
What does Chinese mean here? One of the main Chinese language? Or all Chinese languages?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

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Re:The Google Assistant is going global by eximius on Saturday February 24, 2018 @09:16AM (#16453308)
I was ignoring that for simplicity. Presumably Mandarin, unless otherwise specified, but who knows. My Chinese is pretty rusty, but Cantonese and other dialects were always unintelligible to me even when I could speak decently.
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Re:The Google Assistant is going global by fbdjskajxb on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:21PM (#16449739)
Even if you exclude China, I believe Chinese is still a top-30 language.
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Re:The Google Assistant is going global by criley2 on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:21PM (#16450497)
That doesn't sound impressive?
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Re:The Google Assistant is going global by fbdjskajxb on Friday February 23, 2018 @09:25PM (#16451272)
We’re all talking about an announcement that Google Assistant is supporting over 30 languages.
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