For all the people complaining about how bad siri is while being atypical. Well this update to siri will help, the rest continue to use siri as usual.
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Apple Training Siri to Better Understand People With Atypical Speech
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Of course you're still a software engineer, no need to worry about that! Remember, software engineering in the general sense isn't the same as machine learning:
Not all foreigners have an accent, also, there are a lot of different English accents, what is English the right way!?
British English
Aussie English
International English
Scottish
Welsh
Irish
Dutch English
American English...lots of differences/dialects there too.
No ... NOT Good on Apple.
This, at least here in the Forums, social etc has been a topic of frustration for MANY users across the globe for years now, years!
Why is something like this taking Apple so long? Surely they have internal employees at their main campus in Curpertino, CA that fall under this category, that use iPhones, and have made this known, internally for years now.
As they don’t know the difference, they’re likely NOT a software engineer either
The big step in improving Siri is to transform it from a system the fetches quires from the Internet, to a system that understands the context of a question, or if in doubt asks, and then has the ability to determine if fetched data is relevant to the quiry or not. Then Siri would be able to have a conversation with the user. That makes it a different beast and we're still years away from that. As an example:
"Siri, tell me about luck of the draw."
"Are you interested about the movie by that name or how luck works in card games?"
"Neither, Siri. It is a song by a female signer but I can't remember her name."
"Oh, you mean the song by Bonnie Raitt from her album with that same name from 1991."
"Yea, that's it. Thanks, Siri."
If it were me, I'd work on these issues before fixing anything else in Siri or you'll continue to get garbage answers even though Siri can understand what is being said. First things first.
"Siri, tell me about luck of the draw."
"Are you interested about the movie by that name or how luck works in card games?"
"Neither, Siri. It is a song by a female signer but I can't remember her name."
"Oh, you mean the song by Bonnie Raitt from her album with that same name from 1991."
"Yea, that's it. Thanks, Siri."
If it were me, I'd work on these issues before fixing anything else in Siri or you'll continue to get garbage answers even though Siri can understand what is being said. First things first.
Thanks for sharing that. It was fascinating and pretty impressive to see you power through the rough spots. And kudos for speaking to a large group like that. I don't stutter, but I would probably have choked in that situation.