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by pmontra 4038 days ago
Any plans for other languages and locales? I immediately noticed the temperature in F in the example about the weather in Lima. I think everybody there uses C with the exception of American tourists :-) Seriously, it looks a great product. Maybe it returns even too much data in the JSON. I wonder how to take advantage of all of that if I don't know what people are going to ask. They're going to ask silly questions just for fun even if I have a vertical app (example: a mortgage calculator), because this is not a web form with constrained input fields but a free form input. The numbers I get into the answer could be unrelated to mortgages. Do you have examples of best practices? Maybe just write and speak the answer? Thanks.
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Nice observation. Sadly, localization is an afterthought for a lot of developers. I am also curious to see how they handle other languages and locales, since I'm interested in learning how to use these kinds of systems.
To be fair, recognizing another spoken language is a much larger effort than localizing a web site. I was curious to know if they have plans to move beyond English, maybe next year or 2017.