Siri

[RWebb]

so, how good is it?

[porsche4life]

It works pretty well. I have some issues with it because the yelp database isn't very good in my area. but the text-to-speech is very good I haven't had to correct this at all. I really have to work on and enunciating better I sort of have a southern drawl apparently

[jyl]

I find the voice recognition quite good for normal phrases. You can't be a slurry drawler.

For proper names and uncommon terms, they need to implement speak & spell. So if I say "Webb capital w e b b is a pelican capital p e l i c a n" it should understand that I'm spelling Webb and Pelican. Seems feasible.

Also some funny quirks.

"what is 294 divided by 13.5" gives 294/13, it doesn't recognize the decimal.

"tell my son I'll pick him up at four thirty" produces a text message to my son "I'll pick him up at 4:30", but "tell my son I'll pick you up at four thirty" produces the text message "I'll pick you up at 4:30". Seems easy enough to handle both forms.

"set a timer for twenty five minutes" creates just that. "Set a timer for the pie in 25 minutes" creates a web search for pie. "Remind me about the pie in 25 minutes" creates a reminder in 25 minutes for the pie.

"remind me to check the tire pressure tomorrow" creates a reminder at 9 am. Not sure where it gets that time. I have to say "make that 4 pm", which it does.

Stuff like that. I'd call it a 8 of 10 for a first version. Definitely like having it. I still don't know how to use it more than 10%.

[porsche4life]

Yes, I think the more you use it and learn it, the easier it will get and the more you will like it.

Like I said, it may improve my speech some too. Forcing me to speak proper english yet. I haven't thrown a y'all at it yet. I'm curious to see how it copes.

[LWJ]

Pretty impressive. I am a lazy talker and Siri understands me. Hats off!

Larry

[RWebb]

interesting -- is Siri in the cloud?

or will Siri do its thing (her thing?) when you are off the grid?

also, does Siri learn? that might love jyl's and P4life's issues...

[jyl]

Siri is in the cloud. It does not work if you do not have an Internet connection. I am not sure if it learns. This was dictated, using another iPhone feature.

[carreraken]

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