True, in the past. Is their expedient resolutions still as fast today or in the past year?
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iOS Concept Reimagines Siri With Non-Intrusive UI, Contextual Awareness, and More
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True, in the past. Is their expedient resolutions still as fast today or in the past year?
You listed a few. Let's talk about battery consumption and let's talk about how throwing numbers at a problem isn't a real solution.
Siri needs to be an app. "Occasionally" it stuffs up and you have to start all over again.
If Siri were an app that you could switch back to… and fix some minor error that throws off the entire query…
I would not have this uncontrollable urge to smack Cook and Ive up-side of their heads.
Then get rid of the smart-arse personality, just plain embarrassing when Siri is the least accurate assistant by a factor of 20%.
I might even turn the voice back on… might.
If Siri were an app that you could switch back to… and fix some minor error that throws off the entire query…
I would not have this uncontrollable urge to smack Cook and Ive up-side of their heads.
Then get rid of the smart-arse personality, just plain embarrassing when Siri is the least accurate assistant by a factor of 20%.
I might even turn the voice back on… might.
Hmm. If we’re going to talk about a range of devices with limitations of chipset and battery against why software should be adapted to NOT change the UI layout, which incidentally uses black of which uses MORE battery power on an LCD screen (majority of iPhones save for the X) then you’d be contradicting yourself.
LCDs need to power each pixel to create black, which is the background of Siri’s presentation ... that uses considerable power each day, week, and month for a few users. Implementing a smaller initial screen for displaying results or to show a confirmation of receipt that Siri heard and executed a request, that’s considerable amount of wasted power.
The only conclusion is that changing this implementation means it would SAVE power and reduce load on the entire components of all iPhones except the X to according date.
Are you seriously arguing that having a process constantly running in the background, which would need to happen if you do think Siri needs to pop up randomly to help you, will use less power?
Here's a different kind of Siri improvement, but one that I think is very important because, being centrally based, it has no ability to learn the vocal idiosyncracies of individual users and improve comprehension.
A little while ago I was driving to a restaurant called the Eden, where I had a reservation. Traffic was baaad and so I knew I'd be late, and I wanted to call them to make sure they wouldn't give away my table. I made six, count 'em six, attempts and Siri (accessed through Car Play) never did get the word "Eden" right. So here's my idea. I should be able to have a dialogue like this:
ME Hey Siri, dial Eden.
SIRI Huh?
ME Spellword. E - D- E - N. Endspellword.
SIRI Gotcha. (Sound of dial tone followed by dialing wheeps comes on the speaker, followed by Eden's pickup).
Now, this would appear to be a reasonably simple improvement to make, and would deal with an immediate and urgent problem in a way that any number of Virtual Reality hired guns no doubt pulling down jaw-dropping salaries never could. It makes very little sense to spend all that time effort and money fixing the difficult problems if you leave the easy and obvious ones unaddressed.
A little while ago I was driving to a restaurant called the Eden, where I had a reservation. Traffic was baaad and so I knew I'd be late, and I wanted to call them to make sure they wouldn't give away my table. I made six, count 'em six, attempts and Siri (accessed through Car Play) never did get the word "Eden" right. So here's my idea. I should be able to have a dialogue like this:
ME Hey Siri, dial Eden.
SIRI Huh?
ME Spellword. E - D- E - N. Endspellword.
SIRI Gotcha. (Sound of dial tone followed by dialing wheeps comes on the speaker, followed by Eden's pickup).
Now, this would appear to be a reasonably simple improvement to make, and would deal with an immediate and urgent problem in a way that any number of Virtual Reality hired guns no doubt pulling down jaw-dropping salaries never could. It makes very little sense to spend all that time effort and money fixing the difficult problems if you leave the easy and obvious ones unaddressed.
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You're twisting words.
my earlier posts within this thread has to do with the UI.
Siri does NOT fully run in the background unless you enable "Hey Siri" within Settings.
UI uses a lot more power than the microphone in Hey Siri.
You disagree with my opinion and I disagree with yours, nothing more to discuss.
I don't think "imagining" it is the problem.
It's too easy to imagine things (well, apart from someone who doesn't have imagination of course but I'd hazard a guess a good design company like Apple should be full of people who have). This doesn't look far off from macOS Siri for example.
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Thanks for the tip!
Found:
https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/94nc10/discussion_smallsiri_works_but_doesnt_have_any/
22hrs ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/94sagv/discussion_smallsiri_crashing_into_safe_mode/
THIS:
https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/94pobu/release_smallsiri_make_siri_smaller_and/
Again much appreciated.
You know what I hate the most about using Siri?
You're driving using Google Maps. You obviously don't want to interact with the screen if possible, and you want to see the maps at all times. This is when Siri would be the most useful ever. You ask Siri to change the song that's playing. Siri takes up whole screen, covering the maps. Even after Siri changes the song, it stays on the screen covering Google Maps. Oh no, you dared asked Siri to do something, so it's game over dude! No more maps for you.
You're driving using Google Maps. You obviously don't want to interact with the screen if possible, and you want to see the maps at all times. This is when Siri would be the most useful ever. You ask Siri to change the song that's playing. Siri takes up whole screen, covering the maps. Even after Siri changes the song, it stays on the screen covering Google Maps. Oh no, you dared asked Siri to do something, so it's game over dude! No more maps for you.
As you look at the layout it mostly was. It was a skinning if iOS6. And like I said “properly” iOS7 from a visual sense was jarring but from a usability aspect it was pretty similar.