Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

E Feature Support by Language

The following topics summarize the level of support for each of the languages that are natively-supported in Oracle Digital Assistant.

General Feature Support by Language

Feature en ar de es fr hi it nl pt
Language Understanding Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Voice Yes (en-US, en-GB, en-AU, en-IN) No Yes Yes Yes Yes (hi-IN) Yes No Yes
Insights Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Data Manufacturing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes

Entities Support by Language

Built-in Entity en es fr pt nl de it ar
CURRENCY Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DATE Yes (full) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic)
DURATION Yes No No No No No No No
LOCATION (feature flag) Yes Yes (but uses English training data) Yes (but uses English training data) Yes (but uses English training data) Yes (but uses English training data) Yes (but uses English training data) Yes (but uses English training data) Yes (but uses English training data)
NUMBER Yes (full) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic)
PERSON Yes Yes (but uses English training data) Yes (but uses English training data) Yes (but uses English training data) Yes (but uses English training data) Yes (but uses English training data) Yes (but uses English training data) Yes (but uses English training data)
TIME Yes (full) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic) Yes (basic)
YES_NO Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Note

The EMAIL, PHONE_NUMBER, and URL entities have general suppport that is not specific to language.

Basic and Full Entity Support

Here's what basic support and full support encompasses for built-in entities.

Entity Type Basic Support Full Support
DATE
  • Standard date formats as they are commonly expressed in the native language.
  • Specific date references
    • Months (e.g. "Feb")
    • Days (e.g. "Friday", "Today", "Tomorrow")
    • Years (e.g. "2020")
  • Relative dates
    • e.g. "Next Friday"
  • Everything in Basic Support
  • Advanced date handling. Examples include:
    • "the day after tomorrow"
    • Holidays (e.g. "Thanksgiving")
    • "1st of April"
NUMBER Support for common numeric formats. This includes support for the native language's radix characters (period, comma, and/or space).
  • Everything in Basic Support
  • Advanced number handling. Examples include:
    • Cardinal numbers (e.g. "twenty five")
    • Ordinal numbers (e.g. "25th", "first")
TIME Support for a specific time in digits. N/A