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Siri sucks, why?

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bleomycin

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My friend and I received our iphone 4s's today and i finally got mine activated on crappy AT&T after hours of trying. Long story short, Siri seems to be completely useless and i wanted to see if others are also experiencing problems. Asking siri extremely simple things such as "Text Pat" do not work reliably. It will either screw it up completely giving "ex Pat" as it's response, or it will just say sorry i didn't understand you. Neither of us have any type of accent or speech impediment. We are both testing in a quiet room with little to no background noise.

The reason i'm so confused is i've seen plenty of videos of this working far better in very noisy environments. Could this perhaps be an issue with apple server load? It would be great to hear other's experiences so far, I didn't expect Siri to be amazing but i did expect to be able to dictate extremely basic text messages which it is failing at completely, we are both extremely disappointed.
 
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clamz

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zipster said:
Some people with accents or speech impediments don't know they have it.
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this
siri has been working pretty great so far. a few misunderstandings here and there were expected and were observed. definitely see great potential in this software after further development.
 
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simon360

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I know this might sound like a stupid question... but you're waiting until it beeps at you to say "text," right? If it's coming up with "ex," I can only think that it's not recording when you say the "t" in "text" - or you're not saying it clearly enough. It can handle a basic conversation like a human, but its speech recognition is still going to be picky - you have to sharpen your T's and D's.
 
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bleomycin

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So i take it no one else is having problems? If it was just me fine, maybe i just suck at talking (not likely), but my friend is having issues as well. As a side note the voice recognition in WP7 worked perfectly for both of us, android as well. I've been using computer voice recognition software since the original dragon natural speaking/ibm via voice so i'm not completely clueless about how to speak correctly when talking to a piece of software. I really hope this is a server load issue, i'm beginning to think it is as siri is now giving me server connection issues when attempting to use it.
 
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The DRis

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bleomycin said:
So i take it no one else is having problems? If it was just me fine, maybe i just suck at talking (not likely), but my friend is having issues as well. As a side note the voice recognition in WP7 worked perfectly for both of us, android as well. I've been using computer voice recognition software since the original dragon natural speaking/ibm via voice so i'm not completely clueless about how to speak correctly when talking to a piece of software. I really hope this is a server load issue, i'm beginning to think it is as siri is now giving me server connection issues when attempting to use it.
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Obvious troll is obvious. My brothers and mine works PERFECTLY well.
 
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bleomycin

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The DRis said:
Obvious troll is obvious. My brothers and mine works PERFECTLY well.
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I find this pretty offensive, i cam here to ask if others are having issues, did my best to explain the problem *exactly* and everyone is jumping on the troll bandwagon? Am i not even allowed to ask if others are having issues without being labeled a troll? The only reason i listed that wp7/android are working is because they ARE and because instead of others chiming in with something helpful they immediately began attacking me with meme's and the assumption that i cannot even speak the language. If you're not interested in having an actual discussion about what appears to be a legitimate issue why bother posting at all.
 
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utekineir

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been working reasonably well for me sending texts, the couple contacts i've tried are recognized fine, issues only arise with a failure to pronounce syllables fully on certain words, which is my fault more than the programs.
 
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Hawkeye411

Hawkeye411

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I have to talk a little more slowly than I would naturally (not too slowly) and it works fine. Just had a 10 min text conversation with a friend using only Siri. There were a few errors but nothing too bad.
 
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bleomycin

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Hawkeye411 said:
I have to talk a little more slowly than I would naturally (not too slowly) and it works fine. Just had a 10 min text conversation with a friend using only Siri. There were a few errors but nothing too bad.
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That's good to hear, i'm just going to refrain from using it for a while until their server load decreases from all of the activations, perhaps i'll have better luck then.
 
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416049

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try speaking slower and using the word message instead of text also maybe hold the phone closer to your mouth when you speak.


Obvious troll is obvious. My brothers and mine works PERFECTLY well.
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Just cuz you don't have a problem doesn't mean he won't have one either so your reply has no use and is pretty offensive.

Wow there are some childish people on this forum, what does this add to the discussion? Are you taking the fact i'm having an issue with an apple product personally? This is mind blowing.
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Ignore them... sometimes people have nothing useful to say.
 
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RogueApple

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Mine worked all morning and then mysteriously stopped working within the last hour... speech to text seems to still work perfectly. Getting nervous about this Beta
 
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416049

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RogueApple said:
Mine worked all morning and then mysteriously stopped working within the last hour... speech to text seems to still work perfectly. Getting nervous about this Beta
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There is always a change of things screwing up when it comes to betas but I have a feeling that most errors will hopefully be corrected in the next update or 2.
 
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Zerase

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RogueApple said:
Mine worked all morning and then mysteriously stopped working within the last hour... speech to text seems to still work perfectly. Getting nervous about this Beta
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Mine literally hasn't worked once since i've had it. Not once. No matter what all she says is "Uh oh, i've encountered a problem" or "I can't seem to access the network."
 
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glenncal

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bleomycin said:
My friend and I received our iphone 4s's today and i finally got mine activated on crappy AT&T after hours of trying. Long story short, Siri seems to be completely useless and i wanted to see if others are also experiencing problems. Asking siri extremely simple things such as "Text Pat" do not work reliably. It will either screw it up completely giving "ex Pat" as it's response, or it will just say sorry i didn't understand you. Neither of us have any type of accent or speech impediment. We are both testing in a quiet room with little to no background noise.

The reason i'm so confused is i've seen plenty of videos of this working far better in very noisy environments. Could this perhaps be an issue with apple server load? It would be great to hear other's experiences so far, I didn't expect Siri to be amazing but i did expect to be able to dictate extremely basic text messages which it is failing at completely, we are both extremely disappointed.
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Did you check whether "US English is selected in the Siri Settings? It should be, but it's worth a try.
 
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