Siri's Accuracy Continues to Improve as Apple Works to Reduce Reliance on Google

[D-Dave]

Palm graffiti says hello. Technology was developed (specific rules of how each character were written), people learned how the technology worked (people had to conform to the rules), everyone was happy.

I honestly could never get into a productive relationship with graffiti, but glad it worked for you. But I guess the point of the other posters is that it should always be technology aiming to bend to human needs not the other way around.
This may not be achievable at the moment but should be the goal!

BTW...if you'd be speaking german, your perception of siri would be completely different...no wolframaplpha, pretty bad "heard correctly" rate.
So taking your point of view, I should learn to speak english? Or better yet, we all should learn to speak Ido (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ido_%28language%29) and be done with it.
While this may be a valid approach, I don't like the Idea of man bending it's knee to maschine more than we already do ;-)

 

[Derekeys]

Lifesaver

Siri has been a real life saver for me on a consistent basis. I drive a ton and constantly use Siri for reading and dictating texts, playing music, calling people, and setting up appointments.

When in LTE Siri works quickly and uses my car's bluetooth to do so. I'd say she works 80 - 90% of the time.

I get a geeky little high when I get a text from someone and I am in intense traffic and really need to pay attention and just use Siri to play the text and can give my full visual attention to the road. I hope for all the flaws I and everyone else deal with, that we are grateful for what we have. But we should be encouraging instead of discouraging to companies to continue to improve voice recognition (Google's is also pretty good albeit a little stiff) because it has been useful! I'd say keep up the good work but don't be content!


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[munakib]

Atleast the marketing team behind Siri's failure has a good excuse now, "People suspected NSA was tracking their voice searches thats why the product failed."

 

[Zedcars]

Let's hope a user's command of the spoken word is more articulate than their writing ability which, judging by many posts in this thread, aren't that great. How can you guys expect Siri to understand you if you can't even come across coherently to a human?

 

[topdrawer]

Let's hope a user's command of the spoken word is more articulate than their writing ability which, judging by many posts in this thread, aren't that great. How can you guys expect Siri to understand you if you can't even come across coherently to a human?

what?

 

[chriscrowley]

Google Now vs Siri

I like how I can ask Google Now what the store hours are for a particular local business. Siri doesn't have this most useful feature. Google will tell me what time the closest Apple Store closes, but Siri cannot. I would love it if Apple could add this feature to Siri.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

99 out of 100 Siri queries will just stall and the remaining 1% it won't understand what you're saying. It's years behind Google voice recognition.

It works great for me, except for some SIRI "dumb blonde" moments.
I definitely like it better than Google Now, while I don't dislike Google Now.

 

[macs4nw]

Growing pains. Before you know it, we'll be taking perfection for granted.

 

[Luis Ortega]

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, in terms of correctly interpreting and answering queries, has issued the latest version of his Siri report card, noting that Siri has continued to improve under iOS 7, particularly in terms of being able to properly interpret questions being asked.

What a complete crock of ****.
Siri is a joke and it's so bad that many people don't even bother with it anymore. I haven't used Siri after the first week it came out because it was evident that it was useless. It has not improved.

 

[dilbert99]

It still does like Northern (British) English though...

It hates the Scottish Accent ;-(

 

[jowie]

How could Un-Controlled Environment results for iOS 7 be 94% and 7%, which adds to 101% ???

The same happens to Controlled Environment for iOS 6.

Yeah, they must be rounding figures up. If you calculate net accuracy in iOS7, 83% of 94% equals 78%, not 79%.

 

[glitch82]

You're being ridiculous. So you're saying a person should be able to mumble, speak in a lazy manner, speak unusually fast or mispronounce words and a "computer" is suppose to fully understand a human??? GTFOH.

He's right. If you can understand a person mumbling, eventually computers will too. They will also understand context better and even detect sarcasm.

 

[localoid]

He's right. If you can understand a person mumbling, eventually computers will too. They will also understand context better and even detect sarcasm.

It could go that way, or perhaps eventually, the speech of people who mumble will be auto-corrected via cortical implants, inserted at birth by their computer overlords.