And you're missing his. Apparently it is about coming getting across as having a shallow-minded way of thinking and nothing to do with Siri. Good for you for not taking the bait.
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Michael
so he/she is obviously a man or a woman. yeah thanks for that
Don't act to smart that was a nice way of me pointing out your illiteracy. In your brilliance you called me out on it. Nice....
Siri is great for when I come home from a night shift and I can just get siri to wake me up at a certain time, cancel my alarm if i wake up early.
It's great for my music when im cleaning round or listening to music at work without clicking different songs..just saying it works well.
It's great for short texts I need to make when i'm in a hurry...everytime i ring somebody i use siri....i may not use it all the time but it is very useful at certain times.
works well when i set reminders too.
It's great for my music when im cleaning round or listening to music at work without clicking different songs..just saying it works well.
It's great for short texts I need to make when i'm in a hurry...everytime i ring somebody i use siri....i may not use it all the time but it is very useful at certain times.
works well when i set reminders too.
it wont be any diffirent when it comes out of beta...unless they keep it in beta for decades
I use it mostly for texting, in that area it works most of the time pretty well, saves a lot of typing over time. Haven't really explored to much what else to use it daily for.
Haven't found anything perfect yet on any tech device or anywhere else for that matter, best you can hope for is that they improve on it as time goes.
Haven't found anything perfect yet on any tech device or anywhere else for that matter, best you can hope for is that they improve on it as time goes.
This.
Voice recognitition has barely moved in ten years, Apple aren't experts, and the low quality mono audio files that the iPhone sends for analysis aren't very helpful in figuring anything out (not least because Apple has no idea if they give the right answer back or not).
Saying Siri will somehow understand people better when it leaves beta is like saying the space shuttle will achieve faster than light travel when it leaves beta. It won't.
Phazer
Judging by this and your other posts, and taking into account your statement that typing is easier than talking - I'd hate to hear you talk.
Steve
Im using Siri a lot ,ore these days. It's more helpful than I originally thought. The sensor that's lets you lift to talk makes it less awkward in public.
The sensor for me works less than 50% of the time....! I'd love to know how to get it to work reliably. I position the phone as if I'm going to make a voice call and nothing.. SIRI doesn't activate on most occasions!
For people having trouble with SIRI - you have to make an effort - in that you cannot speak how you naturally speak for some words, and speak slower, always. For example if I say "send a message to" at my natural speech speed, SIRI comes up with an absolute load of crap!
I mainly use the Siri voice-to-text feature when I'm texting long texts. It works great. I'm amazed at how accurate it is, even with background noise. Only problem is that I often don't wanna say my texts out loud when my family/friends are around
No offense or anything but you are wrong. There are a lot of technical problems that need to be overcome to obtain accurate speech recognition of natural language, but it is not as though they're insurmountable. I use voice recognition to dictate a lot since I am dyslexic, and I can tell you that it has improved enormously in terms of accuracy and speed over the last decade. It is true that no voice recognition on any current computer is as good as that of humans, but then again it is not as though we go through life understanding everybody (ever talk to somebody from Glasgow?
). Voice recognition will get better incrementally over time, and it doesn't have to be perfect to be useful. I just wish SIRI wasn't a slave to a network connection and had information about the UK.
Siri useless?
I had my headphones on the other day and got a text. I was able to hear the text read to me and reply to that text without taking the phone out of my pocket.
Win.
I had my headphones on the other day and got a text. I was able to hear the text read to me and reply to that text without taking the phone out of my pocket.
Win.
I use Siri all the time in my car, push a button on my steering wheel and he comes through the speakers.
Some niggling points though
1) Apple promised world wide directions etc... still waiting, it's very very limited.
2) You ask Siri to play a music track, he does... but then if you need to go back to the phone it stops playing!! grrr!
3) It should be able to send/read out emails.
As other people have said, it's great in the car and a good starting point, but they need to expand on it, sooner rather than later.
Some niggling points though
1) Apple promised world wide directions etc... still waiting, it's very very limited.
2) You ask Siri to play a music track, he does... but then if you need to go back to the phone it stops playing!! grrr!
3) It should be able to send/read out emails.
As other people have said, it's great in the car and a good starting point, but they need to expand on it, sooner rather than later.
I agree. Yesterday I tried to use Siri to send my wife a simple message asking her when she was coming home. Here's what happened:
Me: "Send a text to my wife asking her when she's coming home".
Siri: "Here's your message: 'When she's coming home'. Ready to send it?"
Me: "Change it".
Me (figuring I'll just try it again): "Send a text to my wife: When are you coming home"
Siri: "Here's your message: 'When you coming home'. Ready to send it?"
Me: "Change it".
Me (figuring I'll try it one more time): "Send a text to my wife: When are you coming home".
Siri: "Here's your message: 'When you coming home'. Ready to send it?"
Me: "Change it".
Me (getting frustrated): "Send a text to my wife: When ARE you coming home"
Siri: "Here's your message: 'When are you coming home'. Ready to send it?"
Me (noticing there is no question mark): "Change it".
Me: "Send a text to my wife: When are you coming home question mark".
Siri: Here's your message: "When you coming home?". Ready to send it?
Me (noticing there is no 'are' - AAAAAAARGHH): "CHANGE IT!"
Me (angrily): "Send a text to my wife: When ARE you coming home question mark".
Siri: "Here's your message: 'When are you coming home?' Ready to send it?"
Me (blood pressure now 180/120, heart ready to explode): "Send it".
Admittedly, I hadn't completely figured out how to effectively ask (which is why my first attempt was scuppered), and yes, I'm sure my wife would have understood Siri's second response (although it makes me look like an illiterate moron), and I understand that it's a beta version (although I don't recall any of the adverts mentioning this), but Siri - even the beta version of Siri - was advertised as being able to understand standard phrases in regular spoken English. I don't understand why it should take SIX tries to send a simple and very common text message that Siri ought to understand. I could have typed the bloody message and sent it manually in about a third of the time it took me to overcome Siri's rank stupidity.
I've seen some responses saying that it's the user's fault. Trust me, it's not me. People say I speak very clearly. 'Blame the user' or 'Siri is in beta' are pretty disreputable ways to defend a shoddy product.
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