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There's two aspects to Siri. First is speech recognition, second is the actual AI. Apple's speech recognition is very good. I use it as speech-to-text all the

There's two aspects to Siri. First is speech recognition, second is the actual AI. Apple's speech recognition is very good. I use it as speech-to-text all the time in iMessage. I save a lot of time by speaking rather than by typing. It's more than 95% accurate for that purpose. The Siri AI is very hit-or-miss. Sure it's great for finding out the latest football score. But if it winds up only being 50% responsive in general (and that's what it was for me), then it's not worth the trouble. Once a person gives up on Siri, then it could take years before they make the effort to use it again. That's probably the current situation for a lot of people. That's where I'm at. Edit: forgot to mention that i use a staccato voice for the voice recognition. Short pauses between words. It drives my kids crazy hearing it when they're in the same room, but it really improves the hit rate.

l33tbro 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what would a typical voice command be to write a text message? I haven't really tried this.
- PhantomGremlin 11y ago
  Activate Siri and say "text (name) the rain in Spain ..." And then Siri asks if you are ready to send it. Just say "yes". But most of the time I don't even bother with the Siri AI, I just use speech recognition in the iMessage app. There is a little microphone symbol on the keyboard. The speech recognition works anywhere there is a keyboard. E.g. if you are using Google Maps, when you call up a keyboard to type something, the mic symbol is there. Kids use their thumbs to text quickly, but I find it's much faster for me to speak something. Edit: I touch-type pretty quickly on a full size keyboard. It's the tiny smartphone keyboards that slow me way down. I've never tried Swype, it's probably much faster than trying to hit keys on the tiny iPhone keyboard.

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There's two aspects to Siri. First is speech recognition, second is the actual AI. Apple's speech recognition is very good. I use it as speech-to-text all the

by PhantomGremlin 11y ago

l33tbro 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what would a typical voice command be to write a text message? I haven't really tried this.
- PhantomGremlin 11y ago
  Activate Siri and say "text (name) the rain in Spain ..." And then Siri asks if you are ready to send it. Just say "yes". But most of the time I don't even bother with the Siri AI, I just use speech recognition in the iMessage app. There is a little microphone symbol on the keyboard. The speech recognition works anywhere there is a keyboard. E.g. if you are using Google Maps, when you call up a keyboard to type something, the mic symbol is there. Kids use their thumbs to text quickly, but I find it's much faster for me to speak something. Edit: I touch-type pretty quickly on a full size keyboard. It's the tiny smartphone keyboards that slow me way down. I've never tried Swype, it's probably much faster than trying to hit keys on the tiny iPhone keyboard.