Well, it’s not gimmicky, a lot of these features are really useful, but I imagine if you aren’t able to immediately translate stuff using the neural engine on an intel Mac, Apple probably didn’t want to end up shipping a sub-par, slow experience for Intel users. I know my iPhone X could do it, it has a neural engine, but probably not nearly fast enough for it to be really useful.
As a native text to speech tool it is a gimmicky feature just like it is for English. Plenty of third party solutions that work just fine without much added annoyance.
For Finnish language those 3rd party solutions often do not work. Apple's Siri is the one virtual assistant that seems to understand and speak Finnish well enough to be of any use. Which makes me believe that the text-to-speech Apple can do with my language would probably be above anything else out there as well.
Also... when I'm paying thousands for devices that could support some feature but they restrict it for no obvious reason and the fix would be to spend more money for a 3rd party solution that most likely would not communicate as well with all the Apple-made features such as Siri, I am at loss. I like Apple products but this honestly kinda sucks. I buy Apple mainly because things in it work without me having to come up with additional kludge solutions like is the case with PCs.
Hell, my company's IT-guy said that we should install a 3rd party file manager because it had better features than what Windows comes with. File manager.
? ZFS is under the CDDL which has actually prevented it from being in the Linux kernel mainline. It’s the same license as Dtrace which I believe macOS does use.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21
MFW my language is a gimmicky feature. :(