Siri Allows Transcription Corrections by Keyboard

[MacRumors]

With Siri on the new iPhone 4S having some problems recognizing speakers with heavy accents, it's important to note that users are able to tap Siri's transcriptions of their voice input and edit them to correct errors or change parameters. The tip is gaining some publicity from App Advice, who picked up on it from @mattgemmell.

For example, let's say you want to know where the nearest Italian restaurant is located, but then change your mind. Instead, you're hungry for American food.

To do so, you would say (or text): Siri, where is the nearest Italian restaurant.

Once Siri gives you an answer, you can adjust the question as follows: Siri, where is the nearest American restaurant.

While in some cases it may be easier to simply speak a new question or request rather than edit a previous one, the feature should be useful for those situations in which Siri is only slightly off in its transcribed text or when only a very minor change in the original request is required to obtain follow-up information.

Article Link: Siri Allows Transcription Corrections by Keyboard

 

[DrJohnnyN]

Should come in handy.
Apple thinks of everything.

 

[TWSS37]

Wouldnt a calculator app be easier than typing that example?

 

[Vegasman]

Should come in handy.
Apple thinks of everything.

Uh? That's what other phones have already been doing.

 

[Arms19]

Uh? That's what other phones have already been doing.

Care to name one?

 

[Vegasman]

Care to name one?

WP7. Everything you say is also shown in a text box which you can then use to adjust if necessary.

If you want to see what the experience is like, watch the video here...

http://www.winrumors.com/windows-phone-siri-like-features-how-do-they-compare-video/

 

[newagemac]

You don't have to say "Siri" in front of a question or request. Just talk normally. In fact, after you ask about the Italian restaurant, you can just say "Well what about American?" or "How about French?" or any other normal way you would do it. Siri is smart enough to understand you are still talking about restaurants and you don't have to phrase anything a certain way or give certain commands.

There are no preprogrammed requests. It understands natural language. And no WP7 or any other phone is doing what Siri does.

 

[moo083]

Learning?

The question is, when you change that, does Siri learn from the exchange so it can do it properly next time?

 

[KamuiVII]

Apple hasn't addressed the Siri security issue where when the phone is locked you can still activate Siri and make a phone call, without unlocking the phone

 

[ade2bee]

unbeleivable

 

[JAT]

Anybody got audio of the thick accent that makes "American" sound like "Italian"?

 

[ade2bee]

Should come in handy.
Apple thinks of everything.

Yep, apart from how to update most devices to iOS5 successfully, how to standardise a product internationally (beta or not), how to remove a capacity bump of 'other' between 5-10GB on thousands of devices around the globe that appeared post upgrade or get iCloud working...

Apart from that, everything thought of

 

[euphlyusUNO]

It's not perfect, but it's astonishingly close to perfect. Especially, once you correct a specific transcript, it starts understanding you better. It wouldn't have any problems adapting to an accent provided we don't change the way we talk

 

[DavidLeblond]

Anybody got audio of the thick accent that makes "American" sound like "Italian"?

For example, let's say you want to know where the nearest Italian restaurant is located, but then change your mind. Instead, you're hungry for American food.

 

[ade2bee]

Apple hasn't addressed the Siri security issue where when the phone is locked you can still activate Siri and make a phone call, without unlocking the phone

Oh that's nice to know!

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It's not perfect, but it's astonishingly close to perfect. Especially, once you correct a specific transcript, it starts understanding you better. It wouldn't have any problems adapting to an accent provided we don't change the way we talk

If you're an American living in America

 

[kevinkt]

WP7. Everything you say is also shown in a text box which you can then use to adjust if necessary.

If you want to see what the experience is like, watch the video here...

http://www.winrumors.com/windows-phone-siri-like-features-how-do-they-compare-video/

That is garbage compared to Siri. We all know phones are capable of voice recognition but are they in the same level as iPhone 4s???? So why is there any question?? Why is there a debate?? That video is blatantly pathetic. I'm sorry

 

[Arms19]

WP7. Everything you say is also shown in a text box which you can then use to adjust if necessary.

If you want to see what the experience is like, watch the video here...

http://www.winrumors.com/windows-phone-siri-like-features-how-do-they-compare-video/

Yes but on WP7 you're using voice commands. Siri is completely different than just simple voice commands. Siri is a virtual assistant that does so much more. You can ask it questions that a WP7 or Android's voice commands wouldn't be able to answer, because it's not just a command. This article is showing that since Siri can be used with physical input as well, there is a new way of interacting with your "assistant."

 

[Vegasman]

That is garbage compared to Siri. We all know phones are capable of voice recognition but are they in the same level as iPhone 4s???? So why is there any question?? Why is there a debate?? That video is blatantly pathetic. I'm sorry

Follow the thread before you start driving the conversation in a totally different direction. You are refuting an argument I never made.

 

[Asclepio]

Wut a hype for this toy, tons of nerds talk to cellphones oh pardon, iPhones saying "call mom".
Weak brand-brain washed generation.

 

[Vegasman]

Yes but on WP7 you're using voice commands. Siri is completely different than just simple voice commands. Siri is a virtual assistant that does so much more. You can ask it questions that a WP7 or Android's voice commands wouldn't be able to answer, because it's not just a command. This article is showing that since Siri can be used with physical input as well, there is a new way of interacting with your "assistant."

However, if it is NOT understood as a command, the text is sent to Bing. And Bing does a pretty good job of answering these types of questions. Just go to Bing (or Google for that matter) and type your Sri questions to see what the reply is.

How many onces in a pound?
What is the square root of 345?
What is the weather in...
What sushi restaurants are in...

The search engines can answer all these already.

Before anyone freaks out, I am not saying it can record notes and update your calendar. I am saying it will send your text to Bing and provide the Bing results. No more. No less.

 

[JAT]

For example, let's say you want to know where the nearest Italian restaurant is located, but then change your mind. Instead, you're hungry for American food.

But that's pointless. Can you see that? If you are already talking to Siri and it's working, talking more makes the most sense instead of switching to keyboard input.

I'm sure someone will come up with a bizarre situation where this doesn't sound completely pointless, like you were sitting in court asking about restaurants, then the judge came in and you had to shut up.

 

[tlcabral]

Apple hasn't addressed the Siri security issue where when the phone is locked you can still activate Siri and make a phone call, without unlocking the phone

My understanding is that there is a setting in options that covers that. It's only a security issue if you want it to be.

 

[DavidLeblond]

But that's pointless. Can you see that? If you are already talking to Siri and it's working, talking more makes the most sense instead of switching to keyboard input.

I'm sure someone will come up with a bizarre situation where this doesn't sound completely pointless, like you were sitting in court asking about restaurants, then the judge came in and you had to shut up.

Right, but the American/Italian example was just the one the article writer thought of. Maybe he was hungry?

 

[HitchHykr]

Apple hasn't addressed the Siri security issue where when the phone is locked you can still activate Siri and make a phone call, without unlocking the phone

You can make emergency calls with or without Siri.

 

[BruiserB]

Apple hasn't addressed the Siri security issue where when the phone is locked you can still activate Siri and make a phone call, without unlocking the phone

You can just disable siri from working on lock screen. The same is true of the iPhone 4 and Voice Control. I never realised it before this came up today. On the 4 you go to Settings>Passcode Lock>Voice Dial and toggle it off if you don't want to call from lock screen. Not sure how it works on the 4S