I think the explanation is a lot simpler - iOS to date does not correctly support most European languages. Using Siri in anything other than English is a pain and using the Translate feature is available in only a handful of countries.

For anything remotely powerful enough, iOS will have to send voice to some server for processing and that’s a privacy shit show.

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celticninja 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

That seems ridiculous, this is a translation feature. Do you think it is aimed at translating American to Canadian? Those pesky niche European languages are hardly spoken in the Americas so maybe that is the case.

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walthamstow 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Enables tech bros to speak to their street food vendor

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anticensor 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

British to American.

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rkomorn 5 days ago | parent [-]

Genuinely useful to me.

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		I'd prefer American to British, though.

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wqaatwt 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What languages is it mean to translate then? Different accents of English?

	▲	twothreeone 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Mostly Spanish and Chinese. Arabic and Hindi will already be difficult.
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nedt 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

German is on the list of supported languages. That can't be the reason why it's not available in Germany. Although as an Austria I must admit their German is a bit weird.