Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to get it to do a drastic mispronunciation... I wanted my coworker's name "Cory" to be pronounced "JACK-ass" but it fails...
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iOS 7's Siri Can Learn How to Pronounce Names
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One thing Siri does not do well....
I think Siri is pretty cool. One thing it doesn't do well at all (same as my wife) is parse the words in context. For instance, if two words match, but one matches at 65% likely and the other at 55%, but the 65% match word makes no sense in the context of the sentence but the other one does, it should use the one that makes more sense in the sentence. There are grammar checkers in word processors, you'd think it could do something similar. I'd also like to see a bit more local processing as its too slow to respond where I live....
I think Siri is pretty cool. One thing it doesn't do well at all (same as my wife) is parse the words in context. For instance, if two words match, but one matches at 65% likely and the other at 55%, but the 65% match word makes no sense in the context of the sentence but the other one does, it should use the one that makes more sense in the sentence. There are grammar checkers in word processors, you'd think it could do something similar. I'd also like to see a bit more local processing as its too slow to respond where I live....
I wish that autocorrect would do this too. The one that bothers me most is "well" and "we'll". It's almost like autocorrect tries to get it wrong. I'll write something like "Aww darn. Oh well" and it will autocorrect to "oh we'll". Then I'll write "well be leaving soon" thinking, OK, it will autocorrect to "we'll" -- but no, it doesn't! I don't understand.
And even street names for that matter...
Actually, it would be nice to be able to teach Siri pretty much anything you can ask her/him.
I like Siri, I use her all the time for timers (easier than opening the cooking app and setting a timer), notes, alarms and she has no problem with my weird british/german accent. Also she's fine with my name as it's a common english word as well (although she refers to me as "god" anyway, as I told her to do so).
I think your missing my joke...Wong when pronounced wrong sounds like the word wrong...Right?
There is still a far way ahead for the tech products related to machine learning and voice recognition. The updated Siri is messed up with non-English names, a lot of work for Siri team to be solved. However, it is a good news !
This! That's the one thing I would love to have. There has to be more people needing this.
Not working very well...
*name changed to protect the innocent*
Me: Pronounce Bettis.
Siri: It's pronounced "Interest"
Me: Pronounce Nicki Bettis.
Siri: Nikki Bettis not found in your contacts.
Me: Pronounce NICKI BETTIS.
Siri: Which NICKI BETTIS are you talking about?
a. Adam Bettis
b. Nicki Bettis
Me: <taps Nicki Bettis>
Siri: I'm sorry, Nicki Bettis is not found in your contacts.
*name changed to protect the innocent*
Me: Pronounce Bettis.
Siri: It's pronounced "Interest"
Me: Pronounce Nicki Bettis.
Siri: Nikki Bettis not found in your contacts.
Me: Pronounce NICKI BETTIS.
Siri: Which NICKI BETTIS are you talking about?
a. Adam Bettis
b. Nicki Bettis
Me: <taps Nicki Bettis>
Siri: I'm sorry, Nicki Bettis is not found in your contacts.
Because it's a feature that will be rolled out with iOS 7.
Wow, somebody's in a mood today, aren't they? For somebody who's so busy that scrolling past an update like this is a waste of time, you sure had enough time to comment, didn't you? Heck, you have time to browse a Mac news site, so somehow I don't think there's anybody dying in urgent care waiting for you.
Grow up.
cool! i really love the new siri, great UI, awesome male voice, more options, etc. its really cool
Aww, did my annoyance about a company from California harm you personally? That's sad. But hey, make it personal about me and whether anybody in my family is sick. Thanks.
And my point is that it shouldn't be "a feature that will be rolled out with iOS 7", but simply a new feature. Stupid business plan, pretty much everything with Siri always has been.
Thank god for that. My wife's family name is "Take****a" (Japanese) but English-speaking Siri gets it embarrassingly wrong no matter what I try to write in there.
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LOL, seems my wife's name is too much even for MacRumor's built-in censor machine.
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LOL, seems my wife's name is too much even for MacRumor's built-in censor machine.
Indeed. However, 王 is pronounced correctly as wah-ng rather than wong. But , I've given up a long time ago to have my friends pronounce it correctly.
Great feature that doesn't work at all. Just like most of Siri. I spent 30mins trying to get it to learn one name and it just keeps saying there's a problem. Sometimes it'll get the first name but then not the last name. It also then wouldn't remember it after.