Interesting. So it's like the Dragon iOS approach where they encode an
audio snippet, send it off and the real work is done on some cloud
processor? So what was all the claims about using the new A5 chip and
being 4S only because of compute requirements? Maybe it's just compute
intensive to quickly encode the audio snippet.
That said, spoken word audio is pretty small. 64 or 128kbs is only 8 or
16 K per second. A typical command is probably only 5 seconds or 80K at
the higher data rate. So just 1MB would handle about 12 transactions. So
a 200MB a month plan would handle some 2500 Siri commands. Twice that or
more if they are able to compress 64kpbs or lower and/or if the commands
are less than 5 seconds.
All that said, there is a brewing storm over mobile data caps because
all the new cloud, sync, mobile innovation is going to hit a wall soon.
While I got grandfathered in on an unlimited plan for my iPhone, my wife
has the paltry 200MB plan on hers and we've already been dinged once for
$15 when she went over. Caps on home cable/dsl plans are much more
liberal but today's expansive pipe is tomorrow's soda straw. It's a
cycle that's happened a dozen times or so and I do recall the days when
300 baud modems were 'fast' and who would need anything faster? Then it
was 1200, then 2400, then 9600, then 14.4, then 28.8 then 56kpb then
128, 256, 512, 1Mbps and today it's multiple Mbps. Difference is that
back then when you bought a 256kbps DSL connection it was expected that
you could use it all you want. Today you can get 25Mbps or higher but
there is a cap. What good will new faster 4G networks be when you can
consume your entire plan allotment in a day? This will start to get ugly
soon.
CB
On 10/5/11 1:38 PM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote:
yes, but the seri feature is only available if you have internet
access; so the key to this feature's useability will be the cost of
data plans. I'm with sprint. currently, the offer a completely
unlimited plan, but the roomer sites are all saying its just a matter
of time before they do away with that or cap it or exclude the iphone
from it. anyone have any hard info on that question? thanks, max
On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
So in case you haven't already found this, Apple released a video of
several use cases of people interacting with their phones purly
through speech.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html
CB
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