Have you heard that China are preparing Chinese Siri alternative? 19 Chinese companies have formed an organization Speech Industry Alliance of China (SIAC), which aims to pool resources for the development of voice recognition technology, the information in the Chinese language and promotion of applications based on this technology. According to the Digitimes, the organization includes companies such as Anhui USTC iFlytek, Huawei Technologies, Lenovo, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom. Leading developer of intelligent speech recognition technology is the Chinese Anhui USTC iFlytek, China has more than 5,000 partners. It accounts for about 70% of decisions in recognition of voice information in Chinese. Chinese hardware manufacturers have already begun the delivery of electronic devices with Chinese speech recognition feature, similar to Siri or other Siri alternatives. For example, Huawei has launched a smart phone that provides users with voice-control dialing, sending e-mail address, map search, locate and receive voice data. Lenovo launched its Smart TV, and the management of the product is based on Chinese speech recognition technology. Shortly after Apple announced the release of Siri devices, many Chinese manufacturers of the "white" appliances (dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators, food processors, etc.) began to supply "smart" products to the Chinese market, and focused customer on the functions of speech recognition. As you know, the operating system only supports iOS 6 Mandarin and Cantonese dialects of Chinese, so Siri can not compete with products that are made competing companies from the Middle Kingdom. Also it is interesting for me how Chinese Siri alternative will recognize a lot of Chinese dialects? Because there are a lot of provinces in China and every of it has its own dialect. It means that if you are from other province you can't understand your compatriot from another province. That's why Chinese people have one alphabet for all. So how they solve this problem with Chinese Siri alternative?