new delhi users in india can now speak to amazons voice assistant alexa in hindi to carry out tasks like checking cricket scores requesting for songs and even asking how shes doing launched in india in 2017 alexa was able to understand and pronounce names of popular places names and songs in regional languages like hindi tamil telugu marathi and punjabi but supported commands only in english with the latest update alexa can now understand customers speaking to her completely in hindi and hinglish alexa which competes with digital assistants like apples siri and google assistant is available across amazons echo range of devices as well as products from brands like bose mybox iball and syska advt india has uniquely challenged our ai teams with its cultural and linguistic diversity we have worked to ensure that customers can interact with alexa in different regional variants of colloquial hindi amazon vice president and head scientist alexa ai rohit prasad told reporters here he added that along with amazons own team many indian users contributed to hindi development through the cleo skill on alexa prasad said alexa already has 500 skills for hindi language and the firm will continue to work with developers in india to introduce more such skills skills are capabilities like providing weather forecasts ordering cabs or tell stories by simply asking alexa to do so over 90000 skills are available for alexa worldwide with a significant number catering to indian users prasad said alexa has been equipped with a rich hindi vocabulary and speaks in fluent hindi while responding to customer requests he indicated that other languages could also be introduced in the future while all amazon echo smart speakers like echo dot echo show 5 and echo input and select smart speakers from bose will get the update right away brands such as motorola mybox boat portronics fingers sony iball and dish will launch and update their existing alexabuilt in devices to support hindi soon in august last year amazon had announced the launch of a new skill cleo to enable users to teach alexa local indian languages like hindi marathi and bengali this it had said would also help the ecommerce giant improving alexas speech recognition capabilities as well advt last year amazon had also started making its ecommerce marketplace available in hindi to users in india to enable the next 100 million users to shop online tech companies like google and amazon are betting on vernacular languages as reports suggest that 90 per cent of new internet users in india are native language speakers this makes it imperative for these tech companies to offer rich experience in local languages in india that is witnessing strong growth in internet usage as well as consumption of connected devices pti published on sep 18 2019 at 0504 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason