Millions of Trekkies just want to change Siri's action name to "Computer" with Majel Barrett's voice.
I would use this! I would also use "Jarvis" from the first Iron Man movies, and his later replacement, "Friday" (as in "Girl Friday", I suppose?). And then there's HAL, Arnold Schwarzennegger as the first Terminator, "Johnny 5", the voice of KITT in the first Knight Rider television series, the voice of a Cylon in the first Battlestar Galactica series, and the voice of C3PO, Darth Vader, Darth Sidious, and that robot in Rogue-1.
And i'm not saying just use a voice. It would be GREAT if C3PO could be an efficient servant, but with occasional bouts of panic and doubt. "C3PO, please preheat the oven to 425 degrees on "Bake". "The oven is set and on. Oh dear, I hope we don't burn down the house!"
I would also love to be able to configure the voice and personality of my own assistant "in the style of". So if I wanted Alfred Pennyworth from the 1990s "Batman: The Animated Series", I could just ask for that. Or if I wanted Sophia Vergara "in the style of" Mr. Ed, I'd get an interesting assistant who wise cracks back at me with the occasional horse sound! Or a Donald Trump from his "Apprentice" days. Or any other US President or well-known leader from another country.
I could make Vladimir Putin keep track of my laundry, and have Margaret Thatcher track my appointments with important dignitaries! As a bonus, maybe have her also refer to me as "Prime Minister", hehe!
Apple has the resources to catch up but as I’ve been saying for years, Tim Cook is an excellent CEO but he lacks the visionary capabilities Steve had and that was inevitably going to catch up to Apple.
Steve knew what he was doing when he acquired Siri and embedded it into iPhone years before Amazon had Alexa and Google did the same with Android. Tim didn’t see what Steve did and neglected Siri for over a decade. I’m glad to see Apple finally paying attention to this space.
For sure. Everybody, including you and I, come up a distant 2nd place compared to Steve Jobs in the vision department.
Have you tried saying the number more slowly
I have found that if I enunciate troublesome words more slowly, and as clearly as possible, Siri picks up on it. Not optimal behavior for the immense compute power available on iPhone nowadays, agreed.
If I dictate too slowly to Siri, she times out and wastes my time by answering a whole different question.
"Hey Siri, please define D...N...A..."
"The letter 'D' is the fourth letter in the English alphabet."
