There is no such thing as non accented English. Every English speaker views their English as being non accented.
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Siri's Multiple Language Support Still Its Biggest Strength Over Other Virtual Assistants
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There is no such thing as non accented English. Every English speaker views their English as being non accented.
Siri's sister, Clara, who handles the turn-by-turn directions in Maps, needs a serious working-over.
I'm a native-English-speaker who visits Germany from time to time. I don't speak German well enough to switch my iPhone to German for navigation - I stay with English. But Clara's bastardization of German names (streets, towns, etc) is beyond tragic.
She needs to work with Hildegard to get understandable German pronunciation of place names into her repertoire.
I'm a native-English-speaker who visits Germany from time to time. I don't speak German well enough to switch my iPhone to German for navigation - I stay with English. But Clara's bastardization of German names (streets, towns, etc) is beyond tragic.
She needs to work with Hildegard to get understandable German pronunciation of place names into her repertoire.
I use Siri multiple times a day and am quite satisfied with it. You just have to be realistic with your expectations and clear of what Siri can and cannot do.
If you are expecting Gideon (from Legends of tomorrow) or Jarvis (Iron Man) however...
"From there, a language model is built that tries to predict words sequences."
So this is where inaccuracies come from.
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So this is where inaccuracies come from.
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Me, too. I also use it with Apple Music, to check Sports scores, find out when teams are playing their next game, check the forecast, finding photos ( like saying "find my dog photos"), etc. I also have an Echo, and it works great, but it isn't on my wrist like the Apple Watch, so it isn't as useful when I am away from home or in a room without the Echo, or out walking the dogs, etc.
My main issue is that it sometimes isn't as snappy to respond as Alexa. Also, it doesn't have third party skills, like SimpleControl or Plex, that I also find useful. However, I also use Siri all the time, so I can't really complain.
Ok, it can speak many languages, that is the easy part, but is it any good at understanding people speaking to it in those languages?
It is still piss poor at recognizing the Scottish accent and from reading on here it is poor at understanding a lot of other languages.
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I think they probably mean English is their first language as opposed to a French person speaking English with an accent.
So English speaker has non accented and French person has accented.
Right on. There is a nice restaurant chain here in the UK called Hotel du Vin. It's pronounced in english-person-tries-to-speak-french accent, like 'Hotel doo van'. Can Siri get it? No. Can the other competitor's ? Yep. And no, Siri, I don't want an effing Bing search result for it.
well, siri in Norwegian doesnt work at all, they should really just drop the hole thing and focus on something actually usefull instead.
I hope, and assume, Apple will add more 3rd party support. the problem with that is you need to know what it can and can't do. Discoverability on all of these 'assistants' isn't easy. I think what they should do is add more pro-active notifications to it. meaning, it, on it's own, offers up pertinent information w/o prompting. So for example, I leave work around 6 monday thru friday. It's knows I take the subway but doesn't surface issues on its own. i have to actively go to the notification center to see if there are delays. i'd like it to ping me and say 'hey! the subways suck today - you may have an issue getting home' and offer up an alternate route. Same with airlines. It has a great UI for active flight inof but is hidden. Of course having toggles to turn this stuff off.
Can confirm.
And don't even think about controlling music with commands beyond play/pause/next and the like.
Requesting a song with a title that isn't in German? Not happening.
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Same here. If she actually learned something, she would be getting quite awesome at recognizing Finnish swearing.
New features and capabilities can compromise your privacy. Add a camera to a phone or a microphone to your TV and you give someone the capability to grab video or audio from your device. Even worse: add connectivity to simple-purpose household devices like a fridge or an oven—great for North Korea:
And don’t even talk to me about the ‘cloud’. There’s a war on for information and control and I doubt a corporation can beat a state-sponsored effort.
Is he home?
— He opened the fridge an hour ago and drank 100-mls of milk.
Is he awake?
— I can hear snoring.
Turn on the gas in the oven.
— There's a party member in the next apartment.
Okay, when he gets in his car in the morning, lock the doors and drive him straight to our facility in Dun-Jeon Street.
— He opened the fridge an hour ago and drank 100-mls of milk.
Is he awake?
— I can hear snoring.
Turn on the gas in the oven.
— There's a party member in the next apartment.
Okay, when he gets in his car in the morning, lock the doors and drive him straight to our facility in Dun-Jeon Street.
And don’t even talk to me about the ‘cloud’. There’s a war on for information and control and I doubt a corporation can beat a state-sponsored effort.
Dear apple,
If you're reading this, your Siri is very sub-par unfortunately in many ways.
Regards
Customer
If you're reading this, your Siri is very sub-par unfortunately in many ways.
Regards
Customer
Siri wins the contest of the best automated spying device because it can interpret thick accents better. Once people wake up to this they will get arrested for taking walks in the forest without their electronic identifier (iPhone) having adequate charge.
They recognise that is a problem though. They had to solve it in some respects on the TV - if you ask Siri, in French, to watch a film with an English name, it isn't thrown by that. (Another poster here said he has to sent Siri to English on his iPhone in order to request Apple Music songs).
Then again, Siri on the TV doesn't seem to be thrown by context either. "Show me comedies" followed by "Just new ones" doesn't prompt Siri to ask "Just new what?"
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To be fair, all virtual assistants are ***** compared to talking to a person.
This, they really should implement option speaking/recognising of place/street names in the native region of map for siri/apple maps. I had same issue in finland last summer driving, but with phone set in english.
Now switch to German and ask her for directions to the next "Subway" restaurant. English name in German language, not possible.