is it just me or is voice recognition way better?

[sakau2007]

not sure if it was iOS 8, the 6+ or a combination of both, but i've been using the voice recognition in sending text messages and it is remarkably accurate. it used to be littered with errors when i spoke rendering it basically worthless to me but now it makes fewer typos than my fingers do.

 

[fitshaced]

Id say you could be right. Siri in the car was unuseable on the iPhone 5. Now it works very well.

I get a kick out of going 'Hey Siri' when driving. She's going to tell me to go to hell sometime.

 

[antiprotest]

It's probably better but I can't tell since it had always been almost perfect for me. What has improved for me is that it now does speech to text in real time.

 

[sakau2007]

It's probably better but I can't tell since it had always been almost perfect for me. What has improved for me is that it now does speech to text in real time.

yes i noticed this too. pretty cool to see it working in action.

 

[tekchic]

I'm loving it! I'm getting Siri to do all my dirty work -- setting or cancelling alarms, navigation, reminders. It's faster than unlocking the app and launching to set alarms or send texts manually

 

[grizzy]

not sure if it was iOS 8, the 6+ or a combination of both, but i've been using the voice recognition in sending text messages and it is remarkably accurate. it used to be littered with errors when i spoke rendering it basically worthless to me but now it makes fewer typos than my fingers do.

totally agree

 

[Shockwave78]

lol it seems normal to me since i have been using all these features since June, thats the only sucky part of doing the beta. It's old by the time its released!

 

[markyr17]

It actually is working much worse for me...

Maybe siri has to get used to my voice again? It's getting a lot of words wrong.

 

[spazma7ik]

Yes I love that feature, so much faster for sending quick texts. The only thing I don't like is that it'll often mess up there/they're/their and saying 'lol' types out 'LOL'. Like damn, I don't need to seem that entertained!

 

[HiRez]

The speech recognition is improving slowly over time. But I think Siri's voice needs some work. While distinctive, she sounds very robotic next to newer rivals such as Cortana. She is also really horrible at pronouncing Spanish (like street names).

 

[Shockwave78]

I think they are scrapping the engine Siri is based on anyway, at least based on a few reports this year from a few different sites.

 

[0000111]

not sure if it was iOS 8, the 6+ or a combination of both, but i've been using the voice recognition in sending text messages and it is remarkably accurate. it used to be littered with errors when i spoke rendering it basically worthless to me but now it makes fewer typos than my fingers do.

I have a 5s, definitely noticed the improvement as well.

It's probably better but I can't tell since it had always been almost perfect for me. What has improved for me is that it now does speech to text in real time.

What's interesting is that it is not similar to the desktop version of dictation (that you must download the advanced, real-time dictation), and turning the device on airplane mode disables it. So dictation just plain works better!

 

[corlando465]

I have never been a fan since she always seems to get what I'm saying wrong, but used her after the upgrade and she did great!