You say that you have to have yourself as a contact I assume from this
that the phone doesn't
already know you are the account holder? Also is there a word limit on
email dictation? for
reasons of limited use of the hands my written emails are necessarily
"terse"
Ray T. Mahorney
WA4WGA
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 18:12
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: how smart Siri?
Hi Ray,
SIRI is designed to understand natural speech and for certain things it
is
more forgiving than others. For example, you can tell SIRI any of the
following and it will do it perfectly:
Set my alarm for 7 AM
Set my alarm for 7 in the morning
Wake me up at 7
I have to get up at 7
However, if you tell it "Wake me up at 7 on Wednesday", for some reason
it
will tell you that an alarm can't be set for more than 1 day ahead and
then
it asks if you want to set a Reminder instead.
Reminders are very easy to set and allow for good options. You can say:
Remind me to Call John on Wednesday at 3 PM
Remind me to take the garbage out at 8 every Tuesday morning - this will
set
a recurring reminder
You can ask it to calculate stuff, regular arithmetic, tips/percentages
and
so on.
You can ask it to convert most stuff
You can ask geographical information like "What is the fifth most
populated
country in the world
Anything Wolfram Alpha has information about you can pretty much ask.
By "how speaker independent is the program" I assume you mean does it
understand different people? If so, then yes, as long as you speak
whatever
language you have your iPhone and SIRI set to without too much of an
accent
then it should work quite well. I have a slight German accent but
typically
SIRI understands me rather well. There are interesting instances where I
say
something and SIRI repeats it completely differently. One example is that
I
usually say "Call my work" if I want to call my main business number.
SIRI
of course knows who I am since as long as you have yourself entered as a
contact with work number, home number, mobile number, email and addresses
and so on SIRI knows that "you" are you. Anyhow, I can say "Call my work
number" 10 times and it gets it right every time, but from time to time
it
just seems to go off on a rant and it will say back "Call my brother" or
"Call Mike Roark" or something stupid like that. If I repeat "Call my
work"
and really pronounce it, it will just not get it and I just say "Call
Sieghard at work" and that is fine. Then again later "Call my work" works
just fine.
I think it might sometimes depend on how busy the servers are, maybe how
good your connection is, how much background noise there is and all that.
Normally background noise is dealt with very well, I have dictated short
text messages in a restaurant with a lot of background noise and it was
no
problem. What is a problem is if you tell it something and somebody else
is
talking very nearby, then SIRI may just continue to listen not knowing
the
other person speaking is not part of what I am saying.
Regards,
Sieghard
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf
Of Ray T. Mahorney
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 10:47 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: how smart Siri?
Perhaps not the best way to phrase that but the question is this is there
a
set of phrases the program recognizes or has to be prompted with other
than
the program name before requests can be carried out? Also how speaker
independent is the program?
Ray T. Mahorney
WA4WGA
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