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Apple Testing Service That Allows Siri to Answer Calls and Transcribe Voicemail
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Loving the two convo's in this thread! Agreed punctuation in quotes!
As regards to siri, I find siri far better on the watch then the phone. has anyone else experienced this?
As regards to siri, I find siri far better on the watch then the phone. has anyone else experienced this?
Don't you think that would be confusing? You'd have to memorize 2 sets of commands and you'd never really know what will work and what won't except through lots of trial and error.
And many users will not know why a voice command that worked previously all of a sudden stopped working while other commands still continue to work.
Besides, how often do people really find themselves without a connection and needing Siri?
I think Apple did the right thing here. If you're online, so is Siri. If not, Siri is unavailable. Very simple.
I hope this means I would be able to read my transcribed voicemails from any device, not just my iPhone. I love Continuity phone calls on my iPad and Mac, but the biggest issue I've had is the fact that I don't have access to voicemails from screened calls on my other devices. And I screen a lot of calls, haha. Just makes the whole service a bit less efficient and useful for me. This could really fix that, though.
Siri's going to have to massively improve to be able to do this competently.
I still find that it doesn't always get my requests right; and that's me talking clearly to give it the best advantage.
There will have to be a high tech jump or clever tricks to overcome all the soft talkers, mumbles, fast talkers, ummmsers, jive talkers, etc.
"Somebody left you a voicemail Robert, do you want me to look it up for you in the Internet, or for me to just tell you about Handoff?"
I still find that it doesn't always get my requests right; and that's me talking clearly to give it the best advantage.
There will have to be a high tech jump or clever tricks to overcome all the soft talkers, mumbles, fast talkers, ummmsers, jive talkers, etc.
"Somebody left you a voicemail Robert, do you want me to look it up for you in the Internet, or for me to just tell you about Handoff?"
If this is the same feature set as Google Voice, I sure hope they make it 1000000x better. GV transcribe is absolutely horrendous! The text I read vs the voicemail I hear aren't remotely close or even what the person talked about.
That's fantastic news! This will be huge to deaf and hard of hearing people as well as people who are too lazy to check their voicemailsI relied heavily on Google Voice on iPhone for audio-to-text which has been really good so far.
One more thing that's not mentioned in this article is that the new iOS 9 will have the ability to send the voicemail audio file via share sheet (iMessage, mail, etc.) which is huge!
Thank you Apple!
I don't get why you're so excited about sending huge audio files.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you.
This is starting to look a lot like the personal digital assistant described by Arthur C. Clark in his novel - 3001: A Space Odyssey.
I'm a huge Apple proponent. I've been using Macs since 1994. So I'm not a hater. But Siri SUCKS! Just one example that drives me crazy all the time... if I'm driving and I say "Hey Siri, give me driving directions to Alderney Street" and there is no such street anywhere near me but there is an "Alderney Drive" say... 1 kilometre from me... it's too stupid to know what I meant and will give me driving directions for somewhere 2000 miles away in an entirely different country.
Another example, the other day while driving I said "Hey Siri, play driving" (driving being the name of an iTunes playlist) and maybe due to road noise she thought I said "call driving" so she says "Sorry I can't find "driving" in your contacts" and I say louder and clearer "No, PLAY driving playlist" and she says "Sorry, I can't find "no play driving playlist" in your contacts". It's enough to make you want to throw the phone out the window at 120KPH.
Another example, the other day while driving I said "Hey Siri, play driving" (driving being the name of an iTunes playlist) and maybe due to road noise she thought I said "call driving" so she says "Sorry I can't find "driving" in your contacts" and I say louder and clearer "No, PLAY driving playlist" and she says "Sorry, I can't find "no play driving playlist" in your contacts". It's enough to make you want to throw the phone out the window at 120KPH.
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hey thanks for sharing - your lack of interest in an optional feature you've yet to try, is very insightful and is a big value-add for me when I read this site.
I wonder if this could be used to bypass Three UK's terribly outdated voicemail system, that still requires you to fumble with the keypad and listen to announcements in order to get your voicemail.
It's a pity, because Three is great in many other respects. Great value, and cheap to use abroad. Really dragging their heels with Visual Voicemail, though.
Thank you for optionally sharing your disinterest in my post. It too has insight and added big value for me when I read this site....
Frankly, that's good enough. When my Vonage VM gives me something like this, I can usually figure out that "some brick man" is Sam Brinkman by the sound of it, and get the gist of his message. Human brains have been correcting "signal degradation" of this sort for eons. In the infrequent cases where I'm not sure, I can actually listen to the message, but the rest of the time it saves me from having to.
Sounds great... If it works.
It's an Internet service, and it's Apple. Let's hope they can get it working well.
It's an Internet service, and it's Apple. Let's hope they can get it working well.
You don't need any kind of AI for that.
IF CALLER_ID == "Not Available" THEN ANSWER(SODOFF.WAV) ELSE PLAYSPEAKER(RINGTONE.WAV)
It's literally as simple to program as the kinds of conditional call handling that we already have: blocking certain numbers, playing custom ring-tones for others, etc.