Google is quite good at isolating phonymns rather than spellings, and does a good line in context quite often. This as distinct from trying to reverse-TTS (STT) to reproduce a written phrase,... whichit probably then submits to the search engines. Even Google would choke on a second-hand chinese whisper. This scenario more than explains some of siri's greatest bloopers.
BobH. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <siegh...@live.ca> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 4:02 AM Subject: RE: Siri, YouTube Yes, it does get things wrong although I assume if you had perfect pronunciation and clear speech there wouldn't be many mistakes. If, for example, I dictate in German which is my first language it is almost perfect, but then again German spelling is also a lot simpler than English spelling since typically there aren't two or sometimes maybe even 3 different ways to spell certain words as in English. For example, "there" and "their", "hear" and "here", "bear" and "bare" etc. Anyhow, I did say " except for any potential mistakes" and I definitely don't want to defend SIRI because sometimes it really does interpret what you say in interesting ways and I think we all hope for major improvements both with dictation and especially with what queries SIRI can answer and how it can handle more compound queries. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jewel Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 7:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Siri, YouTube I have to disagree, in that, Siri doesn't write exactly what you said: Siri writes what he * thinks you said, and that can make an embarrassing difference. Jewel -------------------------------------------------- From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <siegh...@live.ca> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 7:47 AM To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: RE: Siri, YouTube Whenever you are dictating it's like you are writing the information, except for any potential mistakes SIRI will put exactly what you say. Dictation is also done via SIRI, but it is just voice recognition just the same as when you dictate a text message. Then if you dictate a phrase or whatever and you are in the Youtube search box then of course whatever is found is up to how Youtube matches what you said. If you use SIRI and ask "When was Albert Einstein's birthday" or something similar the answer depends on what sources SIRI has available and is checking for answers. Here SIRI is not as good as other virtual assistants such as the one from Google which seems to come up with useful information more often. -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Deidre Muccio Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 12:27 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Siri, YouTube I guess what I was noticing is that when I dictate a query in the search field in YouTube I can use very natural speech and it brings me up pretty near exactly what I'm looking for. When I asked Siri a question what determines whether she'll be able to answer it or not? What she will find? Why is the performance so much less able to recognize the nature of the information I am seeking? Deidre > On Jun 6, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Sorry if I am not understanding the question, but what does Youtube > have to do with SIRI or search engines? 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