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Siri Updated to Respond to Long Questions With Quotes on Brevity
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apple should fire the siri programmers... all they do is waste time on adding more quirkiness instead of function. Siri keeps looking more like a Parlor trick everyday that passes. Improve on understanding and getting things done properly before doing more quirky stuff. Ridiculous waste of resources and time.
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not really, unless you were sarcastic.
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not really, unless you were sarcastic.
I still remember getting an iPhone 5 (upgrading from an iPhone 4) and was so excited to try out Siri and Apple Maps.
Despite what everyone was complaining about at the time, Apple Maps has always worked flawlessly for me.
Siri, on the other hand, has almost never worked well for me. It doesn't recognize my city (using the city name or zip code gives me cities that are 30 miles away in opposite directions - and yes, I've submitted feedback to Apple). It stops listening before I'm done asking it a question, and sending a text with it, while it does work, is a VERY slow process. It's a shame to, because I really want to like it.
Despite what everyone was complaining about at the time, Apple Maps has always worked flawlessly for me.
Siri, on the other hand, has almost never worked well for me. It doesn't recognize my city (using the city name or zip code gives me cities that are 30 miles away in opposite directions - and yes, I've submitted feedback to Apple). It stops listening before I'm done asking it a question, and sending a text with it, while it does work, is a VERY slow process. It's a shame to, because I really want to like it.
Siri sucked when released, still sucks now in beta.
Anyone who claims Google is close to siri is being naive; Google simply smokes Siri in speed it's embarrassing.
I am not even a google fan, but when I ask it a Q, it is nearly instant to reply, and my voice is 100% accurate.
Anyone who claims Google is close to siri is being naive; Google simply smokes Siri in speed it's embarrassing.
I am not even a google fan, but when I ask it a Q, it is nearly instant to reply, and my voice is 100% accurate.
Siri is the Apple's ultimate joke.
Portuguese being not a option is plain offensive.
For brazilians, functionality wise, a iphone 5 is the same of a iphone 4.
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Nope it is not. In fact, Apple nowadays is extremely slow on development. And when it delivers, a incomplete and subpar solution is presented.
Portuguese being not a option is plain offensive.
For brazilians, functionality wise, a iphone 5 is the same of a iphone 4.
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Nope it is not. In fact, Apple nowadays is extremely slow on development. And when it delivers, a incomplete and subpar solution is presented.
Perhaps because the complexity of a sentence grows exponentially with the number of words it contains, and therefore the computing power needed to interpret grows as well. Because of the diverse and varying wording order used by people, it becomes near impossible to handle. There's no practical way at this point in time that a computer can consider interpreting long sentences. Even people are unable to understand much of what they are hearing.
This "quirk" that Apple has added has caused me a lot of frustration. When I try to send a longish text message via Siri, I get one of these annoying quotes, when in the past it was never an issue, she would just do up the message and send it away.
Thanks for making it more difficult to message people Apple.
Thanks for making it more difficult to message people Apple.
Yeah, just because a product works better and faster doesn't mean it's better.
>_>
What is your data connection speed? Siri is very dependent on quick data transfer. I'll only use it at home when on WiFi at 30Mb/5Mb. I tried it at McDonalds yesterday, and it took forever. McDs WiFi runs at about 0.6Mb/0.2Mb.
I don't find this amusing, I find it to be eschewing the brevity it claims it wants by adding unnecessary -- and annoyingly sarcastic -- pop cultural references.
Well how long are your texts that you need time to think about it? I generally say just a few short words. I mean texting isn't suppose to replace an email.
When I am driving, it really does make it much easier. And if Siri screws up the message, I usually follow with a "Dumb Siri" text next.
Whenever I use it for text messaging it's normally in the car to say something like "text my wife that I'll be home in 10 minutes". Nothing complicated because siri doesn't like the pauses if I have to think of what to say. Then she gets it wrong, I call her a b**tch and she gets upset and then I feel bad (ok, so not really the last part).
The most complicated (and surprisingly reliable) thing that I have used siri for is dinner reservations. She seems to be able to parse things like this pretty well:
"Make me a reservation for 2 people at <Insert restaurant name> in <town> for tomorrow night at 7pm"
Leaves me with just one click on open table when it pulls it up. Consistently surprised that this works almost every time.
Relax, enjoy some sun and have a great day.
And therefore proving that longer, is not necessarily better
