"Enhancements" could mean improved/additional microphones or a dedicated chip for local processing. There's always a knee-jerk reaction of indignity when Apple restricts a new feature to new hardware, and it almost always turns out that there is a legitimate technical reason for the restriction.
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Apple Working on 'Enhanced Siri' Capabilities for Next-Generation iPhones
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Google does *exactly* this for me. It directs me away from traffic jams and onto quieter streets, meaning I face less crowding, and the others on that main road benefit as well.
Artificial intelligence has a tremendous amount to offer, and we're only beginning to find out what.
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I think that local processing power might be part of it, but on the other hand Google manages to use cloud computing for sufficiently quick and accurate responses that this might not be the bottleneck.
Siri is presently useless for me since it gives too many stupid answers and is unable to help with the settings of iOS, etc.
Siri is amongst those stupids robots which are supposed to assist us but are almost always wrong and thus a waste of time. E.g.:
Spelling checker : another stupid robot which replaces tiny spelling errors with BIG errors. A main cause of misunderstanding.
Mail.app Anti Spam : stupid enough to sometimes spam messages from Apple or the Apple Store.
Surely, I would prefer an improved text editor in Mail.app
- that would be able to correctly format messages received from every other mailer application,
- that would not introduce unwanted double line spacing
- that would not make inserted lines sometimes jump above or below adjacent lines.
- etc.
Surely, I would prefer an improved Contact.app letting me re-order phone numbers and addresses.
Etc.
I wonder if the Apple staff really do use Apple's softwares. If yes, how comes they never corrected these long standing errors that bugg everybody (not a minority) all the time.
Siri is amongst those stupids robots which are supposed to assist us but are almost always wrong and thus a waste of time. E.g.:
Spelling checker : another stupid robot which replaces tiny spelling errors with BIG errors. A main cause of misunderstanding.
Mail.app Anti Spam : stupid enough to sometimes spam messages from Apple or the Apple Store.
Surely, I would prefer an improved text editor in Mail.app
- that would be able to correctly format messages received from every other mailer application,
- that would not introduce unwanted double line spacing
- that would not make inserted lines sometimes jump above or below adjacent lines.
- etc.
Surely, I would prefer an improved Contact.app letting me re-order phone numbers and addresses.
Etc.
I wonder if the Apple staff really do use Apple's softwares. If yes, how comes they never corrected these long standing errors that bugg everybody (not a minority) all the time.
LOL
Siri is now so far behind the competition... better give it up, Apple, and focus on desktop Mac again.
Siri is now so far behind the competition... better give it up, Apple, and focus on desktop Mac again.
Because Google's assistant which runs circles around Siri needs a new chip to work right? Listen to yourself, don't be ridiculous.
Well, from a technical standpoint, I'm sure I'm missing something. As for in general, Apple's done this with the iPhone 5... the iOS update only granted Siri for that, but not the iPhone 4s
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Curious... any chance it's your internet connection that's to blame?
Lol - but it has to get you away from people before you use it...
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Good analogy.
To be fair, Google is excellent in that regard because it's able to pull data from many other apps that the same person uses.
My phone has had reminders that I've got an auto payment on my gas bill, or an upcoming flight at [time] to [destination] on Wed., all from Google. I was confused by that, but realized Google is going through my Gmail again. Google just got cooler and creepier too!
Siri gets the country right 90% of the time for navigation but usually the wrong state. Hopefully, enhanced means same state.
Does your wife and daughter share a device or do they have their own? That would explain some of it as it would be thrown off by the changes in their voices. Of course there is also what you want the assistant to do. For me it's mostly reminders, appointments and navigating to an address already in my contacts. But if your looking stuff up, using it with 3rd party apps, or asking it to dictate anything more than a simple sentence I would totally agree with you. I can't use Siri for texting messages because when she gets one word wrong she tweaks out on me. I have an S7 for my android and S voice can't even launch apps. I couldn't get google voice working without it killing the battery.
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Odd. When you tell her city and state she changes it? Like, if you said "navigate to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC" she would get it wrong?"
I feel the same way. I may be ignorant on the matter but I was watching a video of MKBHD using a Google assistant thing. He was speaking commands to it and it seemed like it wasn't anything you couldn't do with a phone?
So what makes this so much better to use than just saying "hey siri"? Am I missing the complete concept of this? I have Siri on my Apple TV, my phone, my iPad already what does a dedicated Siri box do for me?
No they each have iPhones. I don't use an iPhone. There's no voice confusion. When Siri has to be used in very specific ways just to be effective, it's kind of pointless. Especially when there are more capable competitors right in the App Store. Like I said, my wife and daughter find Google quicker and better. The only thing less capable than Siri is S Voice. I disabled it on my S5 and as soon as I got my S7 it was the first thing I disabled... along with a choice few Touchwiz features and Google apps like Books, Games, Movies, and Newstand. I currently run ADW Launcher and my S7 is cooler than a polar bears toenails. OK Google Now Assistant (whatever the hell they're calling it now) doesn't really affect my battery at all. My primary drain is cellular since I work from home 3-4 days a week.
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Glad someone actually saw that. I thought it was, if not clever, kinda cute. Bonus: It definitively confirmed half life.
But wouldn't it be great if you could buy a box for $199 to use exclusively for that?
Interesting point, I think the same thing about selfies, I personally despise taking them in public, will occasionally snapchat my significant other while in private, but I see younger boys and girls taking crazy selfies without a care in the world of who is watching them.
36 now actually. That one guy left to go make self driving cars.
I use Siri for commands that would otherwise take me longer to tap my way through: adding items to the grocery list, math and conversions, setting timers, starting calls/texts, and navigation. I also use it to start playing music to fit a mood, like classical, Hawaiian, etc. It is useful on the Watch.
I also use google now on my Androids. Some things it is better at. Some things Siri is better.
In reality all of the voice assistants have a lot of growing pains to go through yet. It still feels like I am giving commands to a cat via speakerphone. When the voice assistants feel more human and aware, it will undoubtedly feel more natural. I look forward to talking with Siri, not just to. Then we'll have something.
I also use google now on my Androids. Some things it is better at. Some things Siri is better.
In reality all of the voice assistants have a lot of growing pains to go through yet. It still feels like I am giving commands to a cat via speakerphone. When the voice assistants feel more human and aware, it will undoubtedly feel more natural. I look forward to talking with Siri, not just to. Then we'll have something.
Hahahahah. That's funny! Did you have two devices with Siri enabled or something...?
Part of the reason I think this article necessarily isn't newsworthy, but I think it's more of a blatantly obvious complaint that Siri is in need of revamping. If there's one consensus on Macrumors, it's primarily that Siri needs tuning and alterations. Especially deciphering and speed of content in which Google Voice is excelling in.
No matter what, I do feel Siri is going to be improved relatively soon. Siri is one of my favorite features on the iPhone that I use regularly, but it also can be very frustrating at times for the most simple tasks.
