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Apple Expanding Boston-Based Research Team Working on Siri Speech Recognition
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But in the context of Siri needing an internet connection to process voice commands?
"Siri, remind me to... Oh, no data connection, eh? ...And what is that saw for?"
TV still sucks.
I yell at it all the time, and it still plays the same thing...
The football teams still run their own plays, the political hacks still hack away, and The Beaver still does silly stuff.
At least Siri tries to do what I tell her to.
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Yeah, Microsoft Voice Command, back in 2002, could do what Siri does now.
Actually Siri should start all directions by saying "you can't get there from here" for the authentic Boston area experience.
But jokes aside, Boston and the surrounding area has three distinct accents and most people outside of a few neighborhoods have no recognizable accent at all. Being such a huge college town with so many world class institutions, and since a great many students choose to stay local, the area around Boston is made up of people from all around the country and the world speaking fairly neutral english. I come from there and nobody has ever mentioned that I have an accent, nor guessed I'm from around Boston.
It's also a big tech area, and not only because you've got MIT there. Some of the earliest and best work in speech recognition has been done by companies in the area. If Apple wants to hire talent in the field, Cambridge is a very, very good place to set up shop.
Naw. Nawt even close.
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True. I'm not from Boston myself, although I've lived there for most of my life. But both my kids grew up in Cambridge, and neither has any significant New England accent.
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Great place. I used to work there, several decades ago.
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I think you exaggerate. She probably just finds you annoying.
In your example, what context did you give it? If you said exactly that to a random person on the street, they would likely have heard "series" as well. Part of using Siri, and many other dictation systems is that you need to speak in a way that gives each sentence a little too much detail so it understands the subject enough to select the proper words.
I run into this exact issue with Google's dictation, as well as others. Hence my stating it requires a bit of learning from both the user and system.
Additionally, There are countless blogs, videos, and articles outlining how you can teach siri to hear you better. I have friends with difficult to pronounce (and understand) Scandinavian names, A little work with my little Siri has her speaking and understanding these names just fine now.
