Apple Highlights Ways Siri Can Get Involved in Super Bowl Sunday

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced that Siri has been updated with some new Super Bowl-specific features ahead of Sunday's game, making Apple's virtual assistant more useful for sports fans.

With Live Tune-In support, Apple TV users can ask Siri to play the Super Bowl live by saying "Watch the Super Bowl." Introduced last year, Live Tune-In is designed to make it easier for Apple TV users to find live television content more quickly, and for the first time, it can be used for one of the biggest sports games of the year.

Apple also highlights other ways Siri can be used on Super Bowl Sunday, for everything from team and player statistics to reminders to purchase snacks.

Whether you're at home, at a local sports bar or at a friend's party, Siri is available everywhere you are and provides even more football insights including team rosters, player comparisons, historical stats, season records and more. Siri can also help with game day planning by telling fans where to watch the game, who's performing during the halftime show and reminding them to pick up snacks as they head out the door.

A long list of example questions Siri can answer are included in Apple's announcement, such as "What is the Patriots record?" or "Who has more rushing yards this season, Tom Brady or Matt Ryan?" Super Bowl fans may want to check it out to find new ways to engage with Siri.

The Super Bowl will take place on Sunday, February 5 at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time. The New England Patriots will be facing off against the Atlanta Falcons at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.

Article Link: Apple Highlights Ways Siri Can Get Involved in Super Bowl Sunday

 

[chr1s60]

"Siri, who has more cheating accusations, Tom Brady or Matt Ryan?"

 

[44267547]

That's creative to implement Siri for the Super Bowl. Now if I actually liked either team playing in the Super Bowl.

 

[mccaffertee]

GREAT IDEA!!! Too bad Siri never understands what I am asking.

 

[EdT]

I'm not going to completely dismiss adding SuperBowl specific commands but don't you need specific providers to actually watch the SuperBowl on a mobile device? Fox is carrying the game and DirecTv has the NFL package, and I'm not sure DTV has broadcast rights. How many users can this benefit, and what other commands are there and are they also limited by other agreements?

 

[stevet]

"Siri, who has more cheating accusations, Tom Brady or Matt Ryan?"

Haha, loser jets fan.

Hey Siri - Who was accused and found guilty of piping crowd noise into their stadium to give the Falcons and Matt Ryan an advantage?

 

[EdT]

GREAT IDEA!!! Too bad Siri never understands what I am asking.

I don't have a lot of problems with Siri misunderstanding what I say, with a few exceptions. A big one is saying "I" as in I am going to be late. I get 'Hi am going to be late ' even if I carefully enunciate to not add even a hint of an 'h' to I. My biggest problem is when Siri understood what I said but says she doesn't understand what I mean, and asks if I want to search the web. This happens too many times and so I frequently don't bother using Siri.

 

[6836838]

I'm sure the 'stars' are warming up their devil horns and potions for the half-time ritual already. This event is a worldwide joke.

 

[iKnowMr.Jobs]

Its all specific to Super Bowl trivia relating to this year. Nothing relating to the historic aspect of the big game (i.e When year did Tom Brady win his first Super Bowl?). It's a little short sighted and lame. At least display the Wolfram Alpha results.

 

[trifid]

Ok Apple, now please make Siri useful for every other sport, entertainment type, genre, topic, data etc in the world.

 

[spaceballl]

Siri better know prop bets or bust.

 

[Born Again]

Siri is still garbage.

How about siri 2.0?

 

[truthertech]

GREAT IDEA!!! Too bad Siri never understands what I am asking.

It's the biggest advance hopefully in the next gen. Obviously incredibly more difficult than having multiple microphones in a stand alone device, but I'd say Siri gets it right 80% of the time for me, unless it's with ATV and then it's close to 100%. Siri is much more powerful than Alexa and on par or better than Google (you can see the multiple contests that have been conducted) but until Apple improves her recognition, many people won't recognize it.

 

[EdT]

I'm sure the 'stars' are warming up their devil horns and potions for the half-time ritual already. This event is a worldwide joke.

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I haven't really watched the SB in several years but many people watch it because of the commercials and the half time show, not in spite of them. I'm not going to hate an event just because I'm not interested.

 

[69Mustang]

Haha, loser jets fan.

Hey Siri - Who was accused and found guilty of piping crowd noise into their stadium to give the Falcons and Matt Ryan an advantage?

Yeah, that was us. Not our greatest moment. Not our worst either... not by a long shot. To be fair, half of us are three sheets to the wind by kickoff. Tailgating is a sport unto itself in the south.

If someone is screwing around with Siri at my SB party, they will be relegated to the small TV in the garage.

Go Falcons.

 

[Targets R Us]

The fact that Apple had to add specific capabilities to do these Super Bowl type of related queries simply points out what's wrong with Siri capabilities and why it's so far behind.

-Jeff

 

[George Dawes]

Siri is utterly useless on apple tv , in fact it's so awful it's amusing and arguably one of the best apps on the thing - unintentionally

The bizarre things it finds are utterly mind boggling

 

[apolloa]

Seems like a rather desperate attempt to promote Siri, I'm more then sure Alexa can do a hell of a lot more! If Siri could actually understand basic stuff it wouldn't be as bad.
I remember when Amazon promoted the first Fire TV with 'voice search that actually works', and that was before Alexa!

 

[verpeiler]

Whether you're at home, at a local sports bar or at a friend's party, Siri is available everywhere you are and provides even more football insights including team rosters, player comparisons, historical stats, season records and more. Siri can also help with game day planning by telling fans where to watch the game, who's performing during the halftime show and reminding them to pick up snacks as they head out the door.

Yawn... how often do you need information like that? That's so much anti-AI, I don't even have enough words for it.

But I guess using Siri for some smartass wiki search results feels just right for the marketing guys.

 

[robjulo]

How is Siri supposed to allow the Apple TV to tune in to the Superbowl, when it is broadcast on local networks?

Nevermind, I see that it is on Fox Sports Go. I assume there must be an Apple TV app for that.

 

[Attirex]

SPORTS BALL! GO TEAM!

 

[ChrisCW11]

Yeah, I think this highlights the problems with Siri in a nutshell.

Remember that Siri was evolved from Apple's Voice Control that came out for the iPhone as more of a digital assistant for your iDevice, better suited to vocal control for setting an alarm or changing the song or reciting your text messages and I think Apple is stretching the limits of the original intent of this technology as a home and online search assistant to try and keep it relevant against their competition. And even then, Siri won't tell me what time it is unless she has an internet connection, so they even screwed up the original Voice Control technology that didn't need online access for simple queries for on-board resources and control.

It is really time for Siri 2.0 built on a modern query and search platform.

On a side note, how many blurry ****** photos do you think Tim Cook will take with his iPhone 6 this year? Hopefully he took some of the money he made selling Apple stocks so he can afford to upgrade to an iPhone 7, I mean he wasn't even using the newest iPhone when he posted crappy photos last time.

 

[flyinmac]

You: "Siri, place bet on the winning team."

Siri: "Calling..."

Bookie: "Yeah, what do you want?"

Siri: "Put twenty million dollars on Hillary Clinton to win the Super Bowl"

Bookie: "Gladly"

You: Calls Bookie to cancel bet....

Operator: "We're sorry... all circuits are busy at this time, this is a recording."

You: Pauses as you wonder why the recording was in Siri's voice.

Siri: "evil maniacal laugh"

 

[BeefCake 15]

GREAT IDEA!!! Too bad Siri never understands what I am asking.

My daughter was babbling to Siri and she translated her words as WTF and replied back saying that was uncalled for lol..

 

[SeaFox]

GREAT IDEA!!! Too bad Siri never understands what I am asking.

Kinda like that other woman in your house who tries to talk to you while you're watching the Super Bowl.

/rimshot