Uh, apple, that's not really what was needed to be fixed with Siri.
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Listen to Siri's More Natural Voice in iOS 11
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I still seem to have the old Siri on iOS11 on my iPP. I've got it set to Male Aus enhanced, might change it to female and see if it changes.
Edit: or is it only for the US so far?
Edit: or is it only for the US so far?
Just goes to show it's all about great headlines (i.e. Getting clicks) not great, fact-checked content. It's a serious problem that I don't see going away anytime soon.
You're arguing as if the video presented here details every single tweak made to Siri. The impression I got watching the keynote and other WWDC videos is that they've been doing a lot of work on Siri. I'd venture a guess that, aside from just general "it should be better", Siri's promotion from "occasionally helpful assistant" on the iPhone to "primary/only mode of interaction" on the HomePod, has made such improvements more urgent.
However it is coming about, I'm looking forward to the changes. The story mentions, "What song is this?" - I've had occasion to ask Siri that, while driving (thus, not wanting to have any more interaction with the phone beyond Siri), while listening to Apple Music, only to have Siri pause the music so it could listen to the inside of the car to hear any music that might be playing (Siri, here's a hint: aside from the fact that you are aware you've been playing music for me for the last 15 minutes, when you first paused the music to listen to my query, did you hear any other music in the background? No? Then clearly I must be referring to the music YOU are playing for me).
Then again, I've also had the Apple Watch ask me if I wanted to spend the next minute focusing all my attention on my breathing - while I was doing 65 on the freeway (and it knew that, because it was giving me directions at the time). Situational awareness, Siri.
(Apropos of little, I do wish Siri had a proper grammar/syntax that would allow you to say, "Siri, you're mishearing the name of the street/store/person, let me spell it for you".)
(And Google doesn't always fare better - on occasion I've asked Google Maps for directions to my niece's school so I can pick her up, and it feels the need to put up a modal dialog box "helpfully" warning me that the location I'm getting directions to is closing within the next hour and do I still really want directions - YES, I'm going there BECAUSE the school is closing, and I wanted traffic info ASAP, why are you getting in my way? I know, I know, first world problems. Digital assistants are so infuriating sometimes because they mimic people well enough to fool us into thinking of them as such. But they have precious little common sense. I want Jarvis.)
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Headline: Listen to Siri's More Natural Voice in iOS 11
And the video lets us hear approximately 2 seconds of the new Siri voice...
And the video lets us hear approximately 2 seconds of the new Siri voice...
I watched the keynote, it seems like the only major change the made to Siri was they added translation. I’ve been using the beta (it’s a beta, I know) and it’s still been giving me all sorts of issues. They have acquired AI technologies in the past year, so who knows, maybe iOS 12 Siri will get a big update.
I think it would be cool to give us Siri with accents like in Waze. A Colonel Sanders Siri would be awesome.
I just want Patrick Stewart for Siri. That would quadruple my Siri usage overnight, even if I just heard my phone bellow "I'm sorry, I didn't get that". Even the fails would be wins.
Best case scenario would be Majel Barrett's voice (Enterprise computer) as apparently it's possible: http://mashable.com/2016/09/06/siri-star-trek/#mZHlVWc4zkqd
TL;DR: anything Star Trek. Just give me Trek on my phone. Please.
Make it so
I want to customise Siri so that when I press the home button, it gives the little ready-room-door bleep. Then I want Patrick Stewart Siri to reply "Come!". And then so will I.
You're a god of a man, Carl. Can't believe I never even entertained searching for such apps on the store. Thank you
My standard text message alert is the TOS beep-beep prompt for an incoming communicator transmission (not the more well-known clickety-clickety of opening a communicator). It actually works quite well (it's a high quality recording with no background noise, so it doesn't have that "playing a sound-clip" feel, it's short, non-intrusive, yet distinctive in a crowd, and because it's recognizable only to a few, it doesn't attract attention like most novelty "text tones").
I'm heterosexual. But based on what you just said, I'd be hard pressed to decline a marriage invitation from you.