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Apple to Expand Siri to Work With More Types of Third-Party Apps
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Has it not dawned on any of you that one of the reasons Apple bought Workflow was the shut everyone of you up about simple repetitive tasks, while the main teams work on overhauling the AI backends?
I agree the delay is annoying. If they could at least increase the speed of the reaction time of Siri when prompting it, that would make it somewhat more efficient. Although, with the prompt at least I know I triggered Siri.
I don't believe any of them do, and I acknowledge it is very difficult. And you're right that a good first step would be |handling non-English place names (and song titles). I'd be happy if I could at least tell French Siri something like « Je voudrais envoyer un mot à ma femme en anglais » and have it ready for English dictation. Maybe explicit labeling could work for place names and song titles too, as a first step.
Amazon's Alexa has great speech recognition. Amazon has leveraged that pretty well, but Alexa at its core is pretty stupid. Why?
In the integration docs, you basically get passed phrases from the Alexa speech-to-text engine. It's up to you, as the developer, to do something with those phrases.
In the end Alexa has no idea what you're actually trying to do; Alexa has just made the leap from ketwording to more natural language keywording.
Siri will make the next leap with Apple's purchase of that unstructured data firm; currently Siri just gives you a web page that you have to read, presumably found via a keyword search. In the next year it should be able to extract some meaning out of the page and figure out if that matches what you're trying to find, then read it to you.
In the integration docs, you basically get passed phrases from the Alexa speech-to-text engine. It's up to you, as the developer, to do something with those phrases.
In the end Alexa has no idea what you're actually trying to do; Alexa has just made the leap from ketwording to more natural language keywording.
Siri will make the next leap with Apple's purchase of that unstructured data firm; currently Siri just gives you a web page that you have to read, presumably found via a keyword search. In the next year it should be able to extract some meaning out of the page and figure out if that matches what you're trying to find, then read it to you.
I don't use either Spotify or G Music, nor do millions of others. That is just you. Go get a Samsung phone.
I sure as hell wouldn't trust her to order me an Uber. God knows where she would actually send you. At least the automated ubers have a driver in them.
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Troll. Most IOS users are using Google services, and a crap load use Spotify. Google Music is a better deal than Apple music. It gets you YouTube Red, ad free YouTube, extra storage, full quality Google photos, and some other goodies for $9 a month of $15 for up to 5 people.
And I agree with the OP.... why is Apphole so afraid to open things up? Oh, because people would have choice....
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I'm not keeping my hopes up about Siri becoming usable for me anytime soon. I know some people find it very useful, but it's not reliable enough for me to use on a regular basis.
Headline of this story:
Apple to Expand Siri to Work With More Types of Third-Party Apps
My reaction is that I think this could be shortened to:
Apple to Expand Siri to Work
Headline of this story:
Apple to Expand Siri to Work With More Types of Third-Party Apps
My reaction is that I think this could be shortened to:
Apple to Expand Siri to Work
I just want to be able to ask "When does the next train/metro/tram/bus leave to there and there?" but even with transit directions in Maps there's no correct answer. When asking for transit directions I always have to unlock my phone instead of getting a straight answer.
Sending Texts with Siri is an absolute failure, Constantly having to shout and/or fail. Strongly considering carrying 2 phones for those things Apple just fails at.
I don't experience this at all. As long as I stick to a single language, Siri works just fine for sending messages.
Siri's actual dictation works quite well for me, in every language I've tried--mostly English, French, and Spanish, but also Russian and even Mandarin, where I only have a rudimentary vocabulary. But even if Siri comes up with the right words, her capabilities are far too limited to be broadly useful.
You don't have to wait for the tone. Just say "Hey Siri..." and your question/command right after it. 99.9% of the time it hears me perfectly. And I now realize this has already been said like 3 times so this is awkward...
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Siri's ride hailing integration actually works well.
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Scrubbing from Control Center works fine with Apple Music.
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https://www.stonetemple.com/digital-personal-assistants-test
Nice graphic, but dig a little deeper into the article. "All four of the personal assistants include capabilities to help take actions on your behalf (such as booking a reservation at a restaurant, ordering flowers, booking a flight), and that was not something we tested in this study. Basically, we focused on testing which of them was the smartest from a knowledge perspective."
Obviously Google will be better at answering general knowledge questions because they're Google. As I said "Google Assistant gets a ton of things wrong too, particularly with on-device tasks;" you replied with a study that specifically excluded on-device tasks. And your point is?