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My favorite is the voice recognition system in my Toyota 4Runner. It seems there are no lengths it won’t go to to keep from just calling the person I want to sp
by rcurry 7y ago
My favorite is the voice recognition system in my Toyota 4Runner. It seems there are no lengths it won’t go to to keep from just calling the person I want to speak with:
Me: “Call Bob Smith.”
Car: “Bob Smith ONLY has a home number, do you want me to call that?!?”
Enters Mobile number for Bob...
Me: “Call Bob Smith.”
Car: “Bob Smith has TWO numbers! Which one should I call?”
Deletes home number for Bob Smith...
Me: “Call Bob Smith.”
Car: “Bob Smith has no OTHER NUMBER, do you want to dial his mobile number?”
It would be funny if it wasn’t so frustrating.
- newsbinator 7y agoErring on the side of not calling the wrong number. Somebody somewhere made a judgement call: we'd rather annoy people by double-asking them about almost every call, than accidentally dial and ring the wrong person or the wrong number for them. I think Apple/Siri gets this balance right.