Google now is good because its faster but Siri is better because it can understand more commands.
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Google now is good because its faster but Siri is better because it can understand more commands.
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Siri offered more information and had more features on nearly every question. About the only thing Google Now had over Siri was that it answered some questions a split second earlier.
Isn't it mostly speech-to-text, then natural language processing on that text? Both of these areas have lots of research being done on them. In Siri's case--and I don't know how much has been done on specific applications of these ideas like this--it seems they can also take advantage of the fact that the most common requests will probably revolve around things like making calls, sending texts, creating calendar events, and performing web searches and trying to extract relevant data from that (another type of natural language processing).
Of course, it undoubtedly sounds simpler than it is, but these are all active areas in the field of linguistic and AI research. I think it's pretty neat to tie them all together.
That would take a long time... GMail was in beta for 5 years.
Siri was only released a year ago.
There is no evidence that suggests they aren't working on other languages. They just happen to have open positions for certain languages at the moment.
Ah that explains why Siri works no better than a college project. It's been knocked together by a motley crew of temporary interns who are just passing through while hoping to be snapped up by Google or someone, and given a proper job. Stop these joke internships... job creators my ass.
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see, i don't care that siri doesn't speak russian, but i wish it understood me when i name a contact that is in russian... can't use her to call or text my contacts. stupid...
see, i don't care that siri doesn't speak russian, but i wish it understood me when i name a contact that is in russian... can't use her to call or text my contacts. stupid...
For web searches, I agree, Google Now is better. But I tend to use Siri a lot more for its on command capabilities, like setting alarms, reminders, calendar events, launching apps, etc. It's also a heck of a lot more fun to use.
The biggest problem with Siri is its outages and delays. Apple desperately needs its new data centers to go live ASAP, and they should be looking to build more in other parts of the world if they want to be truly competitive in the services space like email, maps, Siri/search, content hosting and delivery, etc.
Good luck Apple.
Your hardware is amazing.
Your OSes are solid.
Your services suck beyond belief.
I wish you well.
In the mean time - keep making it easier for other services to integrate into your OSes. They do a better job than you do - yes they do.
Your hardware is amazing.
Your OSes are solid.
Your services suck beyond belief.
I wish you well.
In the mean time - keep making it easier for other services to integrate into your OSes. They do a better job than you do - yes they do.
I think Siri would be better improved by handling more processing locally, on the device. It could still send it off over the Internet, but only bother waiting for the response if it can't process it locally.
Google works on my 3GS - Siri not available. So yes, Google works much better than Siri - for me. Thanks Apple!
I don't know the motivation behind the language decision, but I do know, that all Scandinavian languages are members of the Germanic languages, just like German (you figured it out too?) and English. The order of the words (verb, noun, adjective, etc.) is, if I'm not mistaken, the same. (I speak English and some Swedish as second languages.)
Finnish then. Finnish is dead easy to teach to a machine. Since without the only exception (the letters 'n' and 'g' written after each other) the letters in any given word are ALWAYS spelled out same way. And the only exception is always pronounced the same.