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I'm curious - I see that Midomi Sound Hound now has voice recognition in iOS 9, which I assume it gets from either licensing Google Now, Cortana, or directly fr

by vitd 10y ago

I'm curious - I see that Midomi Sound Hound now has voice recognition in iOS 9, which I assume it gets from either licensing Google Now, Cortana, or directly from the companies that provide functionality for those. Why couldn't Spotify just do that? Would that solve your problem?

pen2l 10y ago
You would still need to find your way to the Spotify app though, so that defeats the point -- because you have to use your hand to unlock the phone, open the app, etc. Compare this with being able to play a song by simply saying "Hey Siri play Beatles' Rain"... and that is it.
- scarface74 10y ago
  "hey siri open Spotify" works fine.
  - pen2l 10y ago
    ... And then find your way to search icon, click x to clear current query, hit microphone icon to say song name? By this point I've probably killed 9 people on the road while driving. Compare this with "hey Siri play bob Dylan's blowing in the wind" and it working just with this
    - scarface74 10y ago
      The previous post was saying that Spotify could implement their own voice recognition once launched.
      - pen2l 10y ago
        But that's still more than simply "Hey Siri play something by Rolling stones" or "Ok google play some Johnny Cash" Apple should have opened Siri to spotify.
        scarface74 10y ago
        Even if Apple did open Siri up and provide a "music playing intent" for Siri like they did for messages, it would still be something like "play something by the Rolling Stones using Spotify". Is that much different from "open Spotify" and once Spotify is open "Play something by the Rolling Stones"?
        pen2l 10y ago
        Definitely yes. So, I have an iphone 6s -- and I use Siri a _lot_. Mostly I use it when I'm talking to friends or family... e.g. today someone told me he didn't know any of Dylan's songs... and I went "oh, well let me tell you of some!" Usually when you're talking to someone, and you spend half the time on your device suddenly disconnected from the person you're talking to, that makes things tough. Generally one should optimize for a friction-free experience. Generally, that means trying to do whatever in the least amount of steps. When Apple refuses to open up siri, it makes things really difficult. I mean really, this is from direct personal experience. My decision to quit spotify recently was literally this. (another was driving -- I need to go hands-free and least-steps there too for my own sake)
        scarface74 10y ago
        That still didn't answer the question. If Apple added a "music playing intent" for Siri in IOS 10 like they are doing for other intents, the probable workflow would be 1. Activate Siri (hey Siri/button on your car, etc.) 2. Say "play a song by Bob Dylan using Spotify" 3. Spotify would get a message with a parsed command to play. There is nothing stopping Spotify today from licensing a speech recognition engine and working with voice. You can already launch Spotify using Siri and after that let Spotify do its own voice recognition like Google does on iOS.
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by vitd 10y ago

pen2l 10y ago

You would still need to find your way to the Spotify app though, so that defeats the point -- because you have to use your hand to unlock the phone, open the app, etc. Compare this with being able to play a song by simply saying "Hey Siri play Beatles' Rain"... and that is it.

scarface74 10y ago
"hey siri open Spotify" works fine.
- pen2l 10y ago
  ... And then find your way to search icon, click x to clear current query, hit microphone icon to say song name? By this point I've probably killed 9 people on the road while driving. Compare this with "hey Siri play bob Dylan's blowing in the wind" and it working just with this
  - scarface74 10y ago
    The previous post was saying that Spotify could implement their own voice recognition once launched.
    - pen2l 10y ago
      But that's still more than simply "Hey Siri play something by Rolling stones" or "Ok google play some Johnny Cash" Apple should have opened Siri to spotify.
      - scarface74 10y ago
        Even if Apple did open Siri up and provide a "music playing intent" for Siri like they did for messages, it would still be something like "play something by the Rolling Stones using Spotify". Is that much different from "open Spotify" and once Spotify is open "Play something by the Rolling Stones"?
        pen2l 10y ago
        Definitely yes. So, I have an iphone 6s -- and I use Siri a _lot_. Mostly I use it when I'm talking to friends or family... e.g. today someone told me he didn't know any of Dylan's songs... and I went "oh, well let me tell you of some!" Usually when you're talking to someone, and you spend half the time on your device suddenly disconnected from the person you're talking to, that makes things tough. Generally one should optimize for a friction-free experience. Generally, that means trying to do whatever in the least amount of steps. When Apple refuses to open up siri, it makes things really difficult. I mean really, this is from direct personal experience. My decision to quit spotify recently was literally this. (another was driving -- I need to go hands-free and least-steps there too for my own sake)
        scarface74 10y ago
        That still didn't answer the question. If Apple added a "music playing intent" for Siri in IOS 10 like they are doing for other intents, the probable workflow would be 1. Activate Siri (hey Siri/button on your car, etc.) 2. Say "play a song by Bob Dylan using Spotify" 3. Spotify would get a message with a parsed command to play. There is nothing stopping Spotify today from licensing a speech recognition engine and working with voice. You can already launch Spotify using Siri and after that let Spotify do its own voice recognition like Google does on iOS.
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