"Let's be honest... Who really uses Siri?"
I use her alot, daily, (even more so with assistantextentions".
How bout you dogg, do you use siri or not? (topic)
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Let's be honest... Who really uses Siri?
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How bout you dogg, do you use siri or not? (topic)
Yes I do. I love Siri that I installed from Spire on my 3GS. It's ****ing awesome.
That is kick butt, I am trying to talk a friend into JBing his 4, and installing spire so he can have siri, as well as all the great cydia stuff, butt he is mulling it over, (morhan he is) -
Don't you need access to an iPhone 4S every 24 hours, for the serial key or something...?
My brother has a 4S and my friend made a siriproxy server so I can use it. He is AMAZING at code! He has a linux box server.
I use Siri CONSTANTLY throughout the day for various tasks. I love it. And what i love even more is that i didn't have to waste money and an upgrade on a 4S (aka iPhone 4 on steroids). Works beautifully on my plain, old school iPhone 4. Although i think it's ridiculous that apple is using beta stage software as a main selling feature of the 4S after waiting a year and a half to release it. Now that i have siri, i can patiently wait for the iPhone 5 because i'm not lacking any of the newest features on my iPhone 4. I love you Apple, but screw you.
I use it pretty much for all appointment reminders, phone call reminders, google searches and a lot of texts.
I use Siri CONSTANTLY throughout the day for various tasks. I love it. And what i love even more is that i didn't have to waste money and an upgrade on a 4S (aka iPhone 4 on steroids). Works beautifully on my plain, old school iPhone 4. Although i think it's ridiculous that apple is using beta stage software as a main selling feature of the 4S after waiting a year and a half to release it. Now that i have siri, i can patiently wait for the iPhone 5 because i'm not lacking any of the newest features on my iPhone 4. I love you Apple, but screw you.
I read some issue over apple servers with siri being ported onto the iPhone 4 etc.
How difficult was the process ?
It isn't difficult at all.
Jailbreak > install Spire from Cydia.
Then go to iMZDL's siri site (googling it is easiest) > buy access @ $20 for the year, they email you the certificate (which you simply click to install on your phone) and give you the i.p. address to add to Spire in it's settings section.
Et voilà!
You should. iMDZL has dedicated UK servers as well as US ones. It's been working flawlessly for me. Definitely worth looking into.
bull
another apple product that doesn't actually work as advertised #shocking - but ... i'm not complaining, i've been an apple \/\/h()re for years now ... got used to it
yes, i use siri, but ... it sucks. for me it actually works on every 3rd try - as in: "text edytka, i'll be late" - "which dutka, would you like to use?"
"no, text e.d.y.t.k.a" .. then it asks which person on my calling list
"what's the message" ... this goes on for another 2-3 tries of slooow speaking
#winning
then, there's the network "sorry can't help you now" error. this was horrible on sprint - thus returned that phone promptly. on f-tt it happens every 10th time
but, i'm sure this will be fixed on iPhone 6000
another apple product that doesn't actually work as advertised #shocking - but ... i'm not complaining, i've been an apple \/\/h()re for years now ... got used to it
yes, i use siri, but ... it sucks. for me it actually works on every 3rd try - as in: "text edytka, i'll be late" - "which dutka, would you like to use?"
"no, text e.d.y.t.k.a" .. then it asks which person on my calling list
"what's the message" ... this goes on for another 2-3 tries of slooow speaking
#winning
then, there's the network "sorry can't help you now" error. this was horrible on sprint - thus returned that phone promptly. on f-tt it happens every 10th time
but, i'm sure this will be fixed on iPhone 6000
I'm sure that the forum is tired of being weighed down extra topics. I don't get this. If someone wants to voice their opinion in a new thread, big deal. I'm sorry that OP inconvenienced you by creating a thread. (sarcasm)
chi town
chicago. sprint is horrible here (at least on 4s). ironically, i was dying to leave #attFail just to find out ... their data services is actually ok (but now, with verizon's suuuper-fast 4g hotspot ... i'm bulletproof: whenever f-tt don't work, VZ does)
anywho, back to sprint. i had them 10 years ago in NY, absolutely loved them, but here in chi: siri worked 1 in 10 tries & (what really broke the camel's back) ... i wasn't able to check my email ... downtown chicago, next to sears towers
chicago. sprint is horrible here (at least on 4s). ironically, i was dying to leave #attFail just to find out ... their data services is actually ok (but now, with verizon's suuuper-fast 4g hotspot ... i'm bulletproof: whenever f-tt don't work, VZ does)
anywho, back to sprint. i had them 10 years ago in NY, absolutely loved them, but here in chi: siri worked 1 in 10 tries & (what really broke the camel's back) ... i wasn't able to check my email ... downtown chicago, next to sears towers
As I posted a while back at the beginning of this thread ... I'm (still) using Siri for setting appointments, reminders, sending text and most important of all transcribing long email replies. It is FANTASTIC and incredibly accurate. My favorite feature of the iPhone by far!
In my experience those who complain don't take the time to learn to use it properly or use it very little.
I read and reply to many emails on the go, years with Blackbery's physical keyboard no problem, touch screen keyboard wasn't quite as good for long replies, so I carried both a BB and iPhone for a while ...
In comes Siri, the day I got my 4s on launch day I used it, learned it, practiced and stuck with it and I can't speak highly enough of the feature. That's all it took for me to toss the Blackberry. Now a touch screen keyboard is irrelevant to me, all I care is it has Siri or something equal to Siri. When the die hard hardcore Blackberry addicts get wind of this, and they will, it's not really going to matter how good a keyboard Rim or anyone else develops, that's history.
Even sitting with my MacBook Air replying to emails when I get bored of typing I'll just pull out my iPhone and reply to a bunch of mail via Siri. It's the feature of features for me. Now that my nay sayng friends have seen me using Siri and proving how good it is, they too, have stopped bitching and actually stuck with using it. They're now blown away by it as much as I am.
Siri isn't that all-knowing oracle that most people think it is. She has a core set of basic functions that pull through every time you use it. And it works.
It's a new level of multitasking when you're able to send an email, with your voice, while doing something else on the Internet from your laptop.
But I can't wait to know what this will hold for the future of language learning. Imagine it: a Siri-like technology that teaches a language.
You could practice at all times of day. Correct your sentences, it just- it would be awesome.
like how rosetta stone works?
google translate conversation mode sorta does this. You can get goole translate from the appstore. I think it should have conversation mode even though on android its still in alpha. Its very impressive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHTAwk49EYU
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Maybe this is a better question: after a year or so of Android users pointing out that they have voice recognition/dictation, and iOS does not, ask them what they use it for???
For me it reads incoming text while in the car and let's me compose the same.
Also great for quick google searches in Safari or other apps since it's integrated to them too.
reminders, calendars, weather and finding things nearby.
Sometimes it goofs up. But it learns my speech. If you toggle it off..it resets and has to relearn your speech again. So I leave it on.
For me it reads incoming text while in the car and let's me compose the same.
Also great for quick google searches in Safari or other apps since it's integrated to them too.
reminders, calendars, weather and finding things nearby.
Sometimes it goofs up. But it learns my speech. If you toggle it off..it resets and has to relearn your speech again. So I leave it on.
Maybe this is a better question: after a year or so of Android users pointing out that they have voice recognition/dictation, and iOS does not, ask them what they use it for???
For me it reads incoming text while in the car and let's me compose the same.
Also great for quick google searches in Safari or other apps since it's integrated to them too.
reminders, calendars, weather and finding things nearby.
Sometimes it goofs up. But it learns my speech. If you toggle it off..it resets and has to relearn your speech again. So I leave it on.
hi , whats the toggle to learn the speech?
google has voice search/actions which searches web and navigates, composes text messages etc. I've used voice commands / voice to text twice in 2 years both times while driving.
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