Watch: Siri will translate for you in Apple's iOS 11

Ok, that's great. Now, how accurate can we expect this to be? Other than a number of basically canned translations such as the "Where is the nearest coffee shop?, How are you?", etc., what can we expect?

Is this translator baked into iOS 11 / Siri servers or does Siri just reference a 3rd party app?

This is awesome and could have made it possible for an American grandmother (my wife) who, when alone and lost in Paris last year, was met by nothing but refusals to help unless she spoke in French from anyone she asked.  Her abilities in Latin and Spanish were of no avail.  Happily after an hour, now in darkness and quite fearful, an American couple who knew Paris came to her aid.  

Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if seeing the use of an aid, such as an iPhone, help would still be refused on the grounds this still wasn't really speaking French. /yep still really, really pissed off about this!

MacPro said:

This is awesome and could have made it possible for an American grandmother (my wife) who, when alone and lost in Paris last year, was met by nothing but refusals to help unless she spoke in French from anyone she asked.  Her abilities in Latin and Spanish were of no avail.  Happily after an hour, now in darkness and quite fearful, an American couple who knew Paris came to her aid.  

Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if seeing the use of an aid, such as an iPhone, help would still be refused on the grounds this still wasn't really speaking French. /yep still really, really pissed off about this!

Google Translate is available on iphone. It can be used offline, can translate voice (mic) and text (camera). And translates more than 100 languages. Sorry to hear about your wife. It's awful to think anyone, no matter which language or culture, would be left helpless and lost

MacPro said:

This is awesome and could have made it possible for an American grandmother (my wife) who, when alone and lost in Paris last year, was met by nothing but refusals to help unless she spoke in French from anyone she asked.  Her abilities in Latin and Spanish were of no avail.  Happily after an hour, now in darkness and quite fearful, an American couple who knew Paris came to her aid.  

Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if seeing the use of an aid, such as an iPhone, help would still be refused on the grounds this still wasn't really speaking French. /yep still really, really pissed off about this!

Here's 3 examples (out of many) of my experiences in France during the mid 1960s. As a teenager hitchhiking from Frankfurt to Spain I passed into France at Annecy where the French border guards refused to stamp my passport (as a souvenir of my travels). Passing through Grenoble I had trash thrown at me by passing cars. It seems the presence of an American flag on my back pack angered the drivers/passengers. In Lyon I was unable to communicate with the railroad ticket teller, although I spoke both Spanish and German (I lived in Frankfurt/grew up in So California). The concierge at the hotel across the street (a Spaniard) wrote what I needed. I took that back to the ticket teller. After successfully getting my ticket I reflexively said "Thank You", whereupon the ticket teller said "You're Welcome", then pointed out the way to my gate in perfect English. In all of my travels throughout Europe, Central America, and Asia (as a civilian and in the military) I have never met any people as rude as the French. I've never been back to France and have no desire to return.