Your on Googles D and complaining about a two year beta? Wasn't gmail on beta for many many years?
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Siri Updated to Respond to Long Questions With Quotes on Brevity
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Your on Googles D and complaining about a two year beta? Wasn't gmail on beta for many many years?
I use Siri a lot when dictating text messages... The other day when I tried to dictate a long one that was important she gave me some stupid quote telling me to try again in fewer words. I didn't think it was cute or cool, I found it obnoxious and infuriating that Apple cant handle the data so they come up with a stupid way to try and be silly about it. This is stupid, not helpful.
Apple engineers: CHANGE THIS.
Apple engineers: CHANGE THIS.
Apple should crowd source Siri's intellegence. Maybe have an opt in Beta mode that asks you questions back. For example:
Is Nickelback a good band?
Every time Siri gets a question she doesn't know the answer to she keeps a record of it. Then she asks the beta testers the most popular questions until she has an answer. In this case:
Generally people find Nickelback to be a terrible band. But there are at least 10 million embarrassed closet fans who have bought their albums.
Eventually every question anyone has will have a crowd sourced appropriate answer. There could be a human element of course that researches questions with disparate or flagged as wrong/inapproriate answers.
Generally the correct answer will probably rise to the top. Matters of opinion would be dealt with more like a poll.
Is Nickelback a good band?
Every time Siri gets a question she doesn't know the answer to she keeps a record of it. Then she asks the beta testers the most popular questions until she has an answer. In this case:
Generally people find Nickelback to be a terrible band. But there are at least 10 million embarrassed closet fans who have bought their albums.
Eventually every question anyone has will have a crowd sourced appropriate answer. There could be a human element of course that researches questions with disparate or flagged as wrong/inapproriate answers.
Generally the correct answer will probably rise to the top. Matters of opinion would be dealt with more like a poll.
It is, literally. Voice recognition thrives on big data and with Google search and Google Voice, they have been gathering the data needed for accurate prediction for years longer than Nuance, and now Apple, has. Read this to understand the impact of years of data gathering from Google:
http://gigaom.com/2012/10/31/google-explains-how-more-data-means-better-speech-recognition/
Relax, enjoy some sun and have a great day.
Says the guy that has 4 posts on page one alone.
Why the Siri butthurt? Siri does not have omniscience.
I probably wouldn't have cared about this if it hasn't been for the fact that, while driving, I use Siri to compose a txt message so that I don't have to take my attention off the road. Now with this updated Siri, she won't bother to create a txt message that has more than about 5-10 words in it, rendering Siri completely useless for me now; that's the only way I actually used Siri and now it's busted. Stupid thing for apple to do.
Relax, enjoy some sun and have a great day.
I'm relaxed, having a wonderful day, and Siri sucks
Typical Apple behavior. If something is broken, blame the user!
Well to be fair..
warning humor !!
I'm relaxed, having a wonderful day, and Siri sucks
That's the nice thing about opinions, everyone has one even if not many agree with you.
So another "New Apple" 'upgrade'...this time it's a reduction in speech recognition ability. Curse you (post-Jobs) Apple. Another nail in the coffin.
Blah Blah, need to make the service more accurate and much much faster, still too slow for most needs
Apple, the gimmicks are fun and all, but my advice is to hold them back from any future updates until you can pair them with meaningful improvements. Otherwise you'll just be mocked. Why subject yourself to that?
On a separate but related note, I've had Siri give me these smartass responses while trying to dictate a text message or an email. Siri had just finished asking me "Ok, what would you like your message to say" so it was in the right mode, but still came back acting like I was asking a long-winded question rather than dictating a message. WTH?
On a separate but related note, I've had Siri give me these smartass responses while trying to dictate a text message or an email. Siri had just finished asking me "Ok, what would you like your message to say" so it was in the right mode, but still came back acting like I was asking a long-winded question rather than dictating a message. WTH?
Instead of a long-winded quote in response to our long-winded question how about a simple "TL;DR".
and by "DR" Siri means "Sorry, still in beta".
and by "DR" Siri means "Sorry, still in beta".
For what it's worth, I have a screenshot of the first time I saw it on my iPad from May 5, 2013. So it was definitely there by then.
And while it's better than having Siri just say "I couldn't understand you" or "there was an error", I'm pretty annoyed that Apple can't just solve problems with their products.
More importantly, 2% decrease in battery life in approx 5 minutes!
At that rate, you'd lose 100% in just over 4 hours.
At that rate, you'd lose 100% in just over 4 hours.
I agree 100%. It seems like every post prior to this one was about dictating long questions to Siri. I had this silly response when I tried dictating an important text. My son was sick, and I needed to ask my wife several questions.
I ended up pulling up the iMessage app manually, and using Siri's dictation feature to send the text. What a pain. Particularly in California, where touching your phone at a stop light is a ticket-able offense.