> A decade from now, I would predict, everyone reading this article will be able to converse in dozens of foreign languages, eliminating the very concept of a language barrier.
with these excepts from The Guardian at http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/10/texas-regi... (referenced two days ago on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11077168 ):
> Y'all have a Texas accent? Siri (and the world) might be slowly killing it
> Voice recognition tools such as Apple’s Siri still struggle to understand regional quirks and accents, and users are adapting the way they speak to compensate.
> ... “I’ve had a bunch of people from Australia and India say they only really get along with Siri if they fake an American accent,” said Lars Hinrichs, a sociolinguist at the University of Texas at Austin.