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Siri's Multiple Language Support Still Its Biggest Strength Over Other Virtual Assistants
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Lol Multiple languages huh? Siri can't even understand my very plain non-accented English half the time. God forbid she try something like German or Mexican Spanish.
I would like to have your problems. To have some problems with Siri. We have only one problem. We have no Siri. As all countries in middle part of Europe.
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Granted I've yet to really use Siri on the iPhone, but having played with it on Sierra I'm actually quite surprised at how well it handles Finnish commands. I really didn't think I would ever use it in everyday situations, but sometimes it really it easier to set calendar events or send messages / emails when I'm too lazy to use the keyboard.
I would imagine it only gets better the more I use it, so at least for now I'm keeping it on.
I would imagine it only gets better the more I use it, so at least for now I'm keeping it on.
I use Hey Siri when driving with my apple watch to play music through my phone's bluetooth connection to the car, so it's completely hands free. It's really convenient, but still very stupid. There are simple commands that Siri should know, like play something on repeat or shuffle, or so and so's "new" album. Nope, can't do it. You have to be really explicit, and keep it simple.
Sure. The updated aphorism to "Jack of all trades, master of none," is...
Siri of all languages, master on none.
If she was a person her favorite movie would be Lost in Translation.
Siri of all languages, master on none.
If she was a person her favorite movie would be Lost in Translation.
Thank goodness I'm not the only one having troubles with german. What I always notice with Siri is that it can't process certain words that are derived from other languages. Say, if a title of the song happens to be using french or german, almost always Siri won't understand which song I'm looking for.
Siri, the only assistant I have to repeat myself over and over again, get frustrated, launch google chrome and look up information with. 21 languages of nothing is still nothing. Turn siri off on all my Mac's and disable as much as I can on the iOS devices. They had an opportunity to just crush it and failed. Horribly. Love my hardware, hate the useless assistant. Cortana on my VM works better than Siri does.
I use Siri for 3 things: sending text messages while driving, playing music while driving, and setting an alarm or timer. I haven't found it useful for much else.
You're not missing much anymore. I used to use Siri all the time. I don't know what's going on, but since our family got our iPhone 7s, we have been struggling to be understood. I've tested the mics using Google Assistant on Allo and the mic picks up speech just fine and Google Assistant transcribes my commands and requests very well. So it's not the microphone. She is also wonky on the iPads, too, running different versions of iOS. It might be a problem somewhere in Apple's cloud, maybe? You all would know better than I.I would like to have your problems. To have some problems with Siri. We have only one problem. We have no Siri. As all countries in middle part of Europe.
I've also noticed Siri seems slower somehow. I'm used to activating her and speaking at a certain pace and now we are just off, and I have to go back and try again at a slower pace. But not too slow. It's got to be timed just right and so I can't speak as naturally to her as I used to and certainly not as naturally as I do with Alexa on my Echo and Echo Dot.
But sometimes she does work well like she used to. I just can't predict anymore when she will work well and when she will frustrate me. So I find myself not using her at all. If Alexa is available, I talk to Alexa instead.
Amazon's Alexa excels at understanding German -- even when I speak with my heavy Cologne accent. Also, Alexa is the only assistant that actually has useful capabilities (PLUS an open architecture for third party developers). Amazon is really beating the crap out of the competition.
I've given up on Siri but I leave it activated if only for the hilarity when she activates out of the blue when people are speaking.
Just last weekend, we all had a good laugh after she asked what she could help with after someone had said in the middle of a conversation "... dix raisins", when the activation phrase in french is "Dis Siri"
Just last weekend, we all had a good laugh after she asked what she could help with after someone had said in the middle of a conversation "... dix raisins", when the activation phrase in french is "Dis Siri"
So Siri is basically limited in usefulness in 21 languages? Great achievement!
I found one use that I can use even Siri does not speak my language. Turn on Low Power Mode. And I managed to teach Siri my girlfriend's name so I can call her
Yes, Siri understands: "wake message from nine" and answers
There aren't any unread messages.
To be fair I spoke German into the English set up, but from my experience it doesn't matter what I say . Siri hasn't been right in years.
I have tried off and on, but Siri is more of a bother than helpful.
Mostly whatever I say she wants to call somebody. And, I am sooooo anti-social to begin with.
a lot of people say that SIRI isn't nearly as capable as google's AI. i'm curious what the differences are - can you give me a few examples of things Google can do that SIRI can't?