My Siri is almost instant.
Like everything online or on the cloud, it all depends on your connection speed.
My AT&T LTE hauls ass and most commands take less than a second.
I use Siri dozens of times a day and just used it to dictate this...
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My Siri is almost instant.
Like everything online or on the cloud, it all depends on your connection speed.
My AT&T LTE hauls ass and most commands take less than a second.
I use Siri dozens of times a day and just used it to dictate this...
Then comes back with, "I'm reeeeeeealllly sorry about this but I can't take any requests right now."
Michael
My Siri is almost instant.
Like everything online or on the cloud, it all depends on your connection speed.
My AT&T LTE hauls ass and most commands take less than a second.
I use Siri dozens of times a day and just used it to dictate this...
I should have been more precise: it reacted quickly, but tried to play anything but what I requested...
Maybe it's my slight accent, but still, when I go slowly and pronounce carefully, same crap...But when I say, "Play Hysteria by Muse you f...cking bitch", that it understands and responds with "please".... gah!
Might as well laugh about it! :-D
The new data centers should help with that. I'm surprised they didn't have the foresight to build them out faster.
I think this is exactly what apple had in mind when they brought siri to the iphone. Unfortunately one of my professors and I just finished running an experiment on 130 drivers in three different age groups, comparing hands free texting while driving (ie. Siri) to hands on texting and finally to driving with no texting and found that using siri is just as dangerous as regular texting in drivers age 18-25 and 25-50. For the 51-65 age group it was actually more dangerous to use siri then to text the conventional way.
This technology is great but it still should not be used while you are driving.
I remember similar studies about "hands-free" calls while driving versus holding the phone to ear that had similar results. In that case it was asserted that the real problem wasn't holding or cradling the phone but rather the call itself. Between arguments over the phone, the other party not being in the car and able to see impending danger--and therefore shut up--and the sense of being detached from the duties of driving all could result in a crash.
I am not sure of how that would apply to texting though. That is, if the test was done using purely voice (vs. having to interact with the phone in any way).
Michael
He's jumping on the "it's useless" bandwagon because he thinks it makes him sound cool.Yup it's useless TO ME as well. You obviously knows what he means. Instead why don't you just state why it's not useless for you then?
I use siri almost every day. It's actually useful to make calls, text and especially to set timers, alarms and reminders. I think the only reason people don't use siri is because they aren't used to it.
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I think siri should not be online. But the response behind siri's servers is instant. If I am home on my wifi it is always an instant answer, if I am on Verizon's **** 3G that gets unusably slow every day after kids get out of school then siri might never answer... Though I'm a lot more annoyed at Verizon than Apple in this instance.
Most people dont use it because is useless, the fact that you need a data connection for even Siri to ask "what can i help you with" is a fail.
Useless
theres nothing that improved with Siri.
Try doing that in a noisy car... at 80mph... in the arsehole of the world... roaming the EDGE network... waiting for Apple's servers to decipher what the hell I said... then sending it back to my iPhone... after 3 minutes.
When it works it is great, but when you have a weak signal and you say "set timer for 10 mins" and it hangs and hands and then comes back with not being able to help it kind of ruins the usability of it. I still use it often and it's a great tool when working but I think it's time to speed her up and take her out of beta. As other apps (Google, Evi, etc) have shown us, there is no excuse for Apple to be lagging pretty far behind in the voice recognition and overall speed. It was their BIG thing.
Lately wirh Apple it seems I'm always saying "well the NEXT version will be the good one" (hardware and software).
Lately wirh Apple it seems I'm always saying "well the NEXT version will be the good one" (hardware and software).
Just tried out Evi. I guess it can't do sports or isn't very good at it.
Me: "Did the Texas Rangers win yesterday?" (I already knew the answer wanted to see what it said).
Evi: Yes, The Rangers beat the Yankees 6-5 in 13 innings, but CJ Wilson did not handle the Yankees lineup.
what the? What game did it get from yesterday? A game from like 2-3 years ago???
Me: "Did the Texas Rangers win yesterday?" (I already knew the answer wanted to see what it said).
Evi: Yes, The Rangers beat the Yankees 6-5 in 13 innings, but CJ Wilson did not handle the Yankees lineup.
what the? What game did it get from yesterday? A game from like 2-3 years ago???
Same thing was found with phone usage while driving. Tests were done with drivers talking on cell phones (no speaker phone feature) and with drivers using hands-free phones. There was no safety advantage to hands-free talking.
As for Siri, the first day I had my iPhone I played with it, but it couldn't do basic things like toggle Bluetooth power. I've never bothered with it again. BTW that is an annoying iOS shortcoming, not being able to toggle Bluetooth or Wi-Fi without diving into menus. OS X handles this sort of thing with ease, so why not iOS? Why aren't Apple innovating with their mobile OS?
When released Siri was great tech but, like many things at Apple, has been allowed to stagnate and the competition has now caught up. Apple need to start pushing their existing software products harder because completion isn't standing still.
Really? I love it. I use it daily, for trivial stuff like playing a song (great when connected to my car stereo and I can just verbally ask for the song/band I want to hear next while driving) or more complicated things like texting and reminders.
You should try using it for more than a couple days. Its usefulness becomes more apparent the more you use it.