That is correct, Siri is stupid in many languages
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Siri's Multiple Language Support Still Its Biggest Strength Over Other Virtual Assistants
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I use SIRI all the time - I have it hooked up to my home lighting system and its fantastic. I also use it to dictate notes (maybe 90-95% accurate), read/send messages, set alarms and timers.
I like Siri. Apparently much more than most other people here. But I do wish they'd tone down the "personality". She keeps saying stuff about my "humble abode" and "voila!" when I ask to turn on/off lights and it's like having an annoying friend who is way too corny and thinks he's funnier than he really is.
So Google Now has 52 languages and can recognise 6 secondary languages at the same time.
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/new...ow-supports-7-languages-simultaneously-548578
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/new...ow-supports-7-languages-simultaneously-548578
You speak German into the English set up and are surprised that it does not understand you?? Why dont you speak to it in Mandarin as well?? As I said, Siri understands this sentence perfectly on my (German) iPad Air. Just use it as it is meant to be used.
This is pretty much the most accurate thing I have ever heard about Siri, major lol.
True, just ask her to speak Spanish, she’ll tell you to change settings to select her Spanish cousin. Ask her something in Japanese, she won’t understand. Siri is missing language detection, an essential ingredient to be considered “multilingual”. (And hard to add, of course.)
100% true and one of the reasons why Siri is useless/frustating all these years.
Same thing happens to me when asking Siri to play certain podcast for example, it doesn't recognize what I tell it, and doesn't even look at the podcasts I have subscribed to or downloaded to try to infer what I mean.
It would be nice if it actually did English though. Siri is brain dead.
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yea, but it can only understand one language at the same time. I speak russian and english, my Siri is set to English. It can only read / send stuff in english, but not in russian. It will work in Russian but only if I completely switch it - then english doesn't work. Maybe one day it will be intelligent enough to understand any language, or at least you should be able to select more than one... If it can already do them separately, why not at the same time...
I disagree with you. It's a multilingual idiot if you compare it's speech recognition to google now. If I could replace Siri with Google now, I would in a second. Not only are the results significantly more accurate, it is usable!
Just because Siri has more language support just means it is unusable in more languages. Better to be good at a few things than bad at many!
This is hilarious to me. Siri's biggest strength is something you, personally, will probably never use. lol.
That map is not up to date ,there is support for Siri in Denmark.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.
... and its inability to parse simple commands, recognize names in your contacts, or follow instructions without referring you to the Web are I ts biggest weaknesses.
I use Siri all the time. Sure, it's struggles with deciphering and dictation at times. But for tasking on the iPhone, it works really well for scheduling, emails, asking random questions, etc. Siri struggles in areas, but has its advantages.
And to be honest, your question about sincerity of people using Siri is far likely more using Siri than not. Especially, hands-free in the car, Siri is crucial for me. I can't speak for the language barrier, but for English, I have had very little difficulty aside from defining a word wrong or obscuring the word. That said, everybody's experience will be different and opinions will vary.
Seriously, I don't have too many issues using Siri and I give quite a few commands. (btw I am using it in German).
- I tell her to turn on/off lights (just name each lights accordingly)
- I tell her to turn on the TV
- I tell her to set a timer (e.g. for cooking eggs)
- I tell her to put things on my grocery list (which is named "Einkaufsliste" and is shared with my wife so either of us can pick it up at the store)
- I tell her to set alarms
- On the watch while in the car I tell her to send iMessages to specific people
In total I'd say it gets more than 99% right at least with those commands... sometimes (e.g. while watching soccer) I'd ask "how old is Mats Hummels" and Siri even tells me the age - not from a website it just gives the number.
- I tell her to turn on/off lights (just name each lights accordingly)
- I tell her to turn on the TV
- I tell her to set a timer (e.g. for cooking eggs)
- I tell her to put things on my grocery list (which is named "Einkaufsliste" and is shared with my wife so either of us can pick it up at the store)
- I tell her to set alarms
- On the watch while in the car I tell her to send iMessages to specific people
In total I'd say it gets more than 99% right at least with those commands... sometimes (e.g. while watching soccer) I'd ask "how old is Mats Hummels" and Siri even tells me the age - not from a website it just gives the number.
