Yes, unless Siri has a much easier approach and at least can come back with "Do you want ..." so you can answer with a one word, it's still not measuring up. It's just the occasional surprise for which I am thankful!
We should all start saying things to Apple about this ... Carol P ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 4:45 PM Subject: SIRI definitely requires improvements Hi everybody, This goes back to the thread about SIRI and the question Neil asked about the latitude of Maddison, Wisconsin. I just tried this and asked SIRI “What is the latitude of Maddison, Wisconsin”. Just as Neil reported, SIRI came back “I don’t understand what is the latitude of Wisconsin”. I then asked “What latitude is Vancouver, British Columbia”. Notice the slight difference in wording “What is the latitude of…” and “What latitude is…”. Anyhow, SIRI came back with the answer promptly and when I asked in the same way “What latitude is Maddison, Wisconsin” SIRI also answered right away. Then I asked using the original wording which didn’t work “What is the latitude of Vancouver, British Columbia”. SIRI answered “The only possibility I found is Latitude Restaurant, is that the one you are looking for?” Then SIRI beeped waiting for me to say “Yes” or “No:” as if I had asked it to look for restaurants with that name. I use SIRI a lot and often like how well it works especially for dictation. However, sometimes it’s ridiculous how it gets simple things wrong or can’t deliver an answer which Google Voice Search has no problems with. I also still find more complex dictation is difficult and I can’t believe there still is no way to just spell out a word I know SIRI will get wrong. I really hope Apple puts some major effort into making SIRI better. They introduced this idea of a personal assistant, but considering SIRI has been around for almost 4 years it has gone through amazingly few real upgrades and it can’t even tell you the battery status on your phone and I still can’t easily set a 2-part reminder like this: Set a reminder on August 6 at 10 AM SIRI will say “Tell me what you want to be reminded about”, I say: Dentist appointment at 11 AM. This used to be possible and to me it sounds natural, but if I say it this way SIRI sets a reminder “Dentist appointment” for August 6 at 11 AM, it completely ignores that I said “Dentist appointment at 10 AM” and just interprets it the way it wants. If, however, I say this: “Set a reminder on August 6 at 10 AM about my dentist appointment at 11 AM” it creates it correctly, the reminder time is set to August 6 at 10 AM and the reminder text says “My dentist appointment at 11 AM”. Apple made such a big deal of how you can talk naturally to SIRI, but while you can set an alarm by saying many different things, a lot of other commands have to be delivered just so or SIRI will get it wrong. Steve Jobbs old adage “It just works” definitely does not apply here. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
