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Apple Expanding Boston-Based Research Team Working on Siri Speech Recognition
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johnnyturbouk
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not that i use android much - my nexus is rely my 3rd tablet - brought as i was getting bored of iOS. I have to say google does runs circles over siri within the context of speech recognition - shame android iOS sucks!
Speaking slowly and clearly in a quiet room, with a full 4G/wifi signal, just need Siri to be reliable and accurately voice dial for me for once.
It's the little things it continually fails at...
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Or needing an internet connection to stinking voice dial somebody!!!
It's mind bottling, really.
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We've been saying this for the past three years…AND still waiting.
Personally, Siri may be helpful to some, but I thing it's a huge marketing gimmick.
Improvement highly needed!
Dont get me wrong I like Siri. Use it on a daily basis. With iOS 8 they introduced some enjoyable additions and variations. She even responded me with println(How cool is Swift right?) and other developer puns. But in german I cant even put in some specific times, like 3:40 always becoming 3:00 and me having to enter 3:41 for it to work. Restricted hands free mode is welcome. Good to enter corrections because it stays active for short time after your last command. But it already did go off while watching someone say Hey <not Siri> on youtube.
I hope they get the time entering thing down in release, considering they are going to highly feature Siri with the upcoming watch.
Dont get me wrong I like Siri. Use it on a daily basis. With iOS 8 they introduced some enjoyable additions and variations. She even responded me with println(How cool is Swift right?) and other developer puns. But in german I cant even put in some specific times, like 3:40 always becoming 3:00 and me having to enter 3:41 for it to work. Restricted hands free mode is welcome. Good to enter corrections because it stays active for short time after your last command. But it already did go off while watching someone say Hey <not Siri> on youtube.
I hope they get the time entering thing down in release, considering they are going to highly feature Siri with the upcoming watch.
Siri: I don't know what you mean by pack your cat. Do you want me to search the web for it?
+1. and, it's been getting noticeably more able of late, it does many more things than you think it does. feels that they have been steadily working on it quietly... i have very high hopes for the future of siri. and, a nicer voice will also be welcome..
Siri Improvements
BBN has been a leader in voice and text recognition for decades - with all the other talent they are recruiting I expect Siri to be back out front soon.
confused
So here's what I don't understand. Siri was like 90% for me when it came out. Its about 50% accurate now (can't understand why it keeps getting WORSE). The built in speech to text like you use in messages or email is about 95% for me. Why on earth don't they save the processing power and cell bandwidth and simply use the built in code for the speech to text parser, then pass the results on to siri for the 'net part? Seems like one silo not talking to the other.
So here's what I don't understand. Siri was like 90% for me when it came out. Its about 50% accurate now (can't understand why it keeps getting WORSE). The built in speech to text like you use in messages or email is about 95% for me. Why on earth don't they save the processing power and cell bandwidth and simply use the built in code for the speech to text parser, then pass the results on to siri for the 'net part? Seems like one silo not talking to the other.
Sarah?
(Bohstonian for Siri)
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Que Siri, Siri. Whatever will be, will be.
Hey, just because Siri scoffs at your come-ons, doesn't mean she's flawed. You just gotta treat her like the digital lady that she is.
Siri has learned a lot in iOS 8. She'll continue to get smarter and stronger as time goes by. I'm looking forward to what comes with this expanded Siri speach team.
Or needing an internet connection to stinking voice dial somebody!!!
It's mind bottling, really.
Mind bottling, eh? Now there's an odd visual...
About time they did something, because the much less heralded speech recognition and comprehension teams at other companies seem to be making apple look pretty simple.
Nuance is a company like Intuit- they make crucial software for both Mac and PC, but Mac OS takes a distant back seat to the Windows product. With Apple's association with Nuance, I was hoping it would be a benefit, but nothing has changed. Hopefully this new direction will work out....
The understanding is not the problem, the problem is that series capabilities seem like they have not changed meaningfully in the past two years.
For instance, in the above paragraph which was dictated via Siri, Siri was unable to use context to determine that I was saying Siri instead of the word series.
Or needing an internet connection to stinking voice dial somebody!!!
Or needing an internet connection to play music that's already on your phone.
Uh not really. It's a fairly standard saying, mate.
Hoping for improvements (especialy non-english versions) but so far apple's developements have always been very US-centric. Nuance on the other hand is very well established with many different languages.
Apart from that...as long as Siri does not work properly with external contacts and calendars (my data is synced from an exchange server) it's usefulness for me is pretty limited.
Hope others already have a better experience...I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Apart from that...as long as Siri does not work properly with external contacts and calendars (my data is synced from an exchange server) it's usefulness for me is pretty limited.
Hope others already have a better experience...I'll keep my fingers crossed.
