I was listening to my talking book this morning, and I happened to look at the
iPhone, and saw a message from Siri saying: "I am not sure about that, but,
deep down, I'm lonely!" he must have been replying to something that he had
heard on the book.
Jewel
From: Robin Frost
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 4:44 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: SIRI definitely requires improvements
Hi,
Along these same lines I recently asked Siri when the Breeders cup was this
year and she replied “hmm horse racing I wish I knew more about that.” She
knew it was a horse race but couldn’t figure when it’s to be held. Even when
she annoys me she gives me a giggle. But I agree with you I wish they’d improve
her too.
Robin
From: Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 11:45 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
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.
--
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.
