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What I find hard to understand is that Google who has been working on the voice recognition for ages and has actual products out there and enormous data, still

by neebz 15y ago

What I find hard to understand is that Google who has been working on the voice recognition for ages and has actual products out there and enormous data, still struggles with quality in this area. How can everyone put so much trust on Siri that it would change the paradigm when it's hardly tested in the market. In my opinion it all stems from the trust on Apple. Apple has the reputation that they don't ship half-products and with the rumours going strong that Siri would be part of iPhone 5, everybody is simply jumping on the bandwagon and _assuming_ that Apple has solved the voice recognition problem. As much as awesome Apple is, I still find it hard to believe that they have figured out voice-recognition.

IanMikutel 15y ago
Actually Siri is based off arguably more time, research and possibly funding than Google may have thrown at this particular problem. As I quoted from 9to5mac in my post: "In 2003, the US Government began the most ambitious Artificial Intelligence program in its history called the “Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes” or CALO program. The name was inspired by the Latin word “calonis”, which means “soldier’s servant”. Funded by DARPA as part of its Personal Assistant that Learns project, the program ran for five years and brought together more than 300 researchers from 25 of the top university and commercial research institutions, with the goal of “building a new generation of cognitive assistants that can reason, learn from experience, be told what to do, explain what they are doing, reflect on their experience, and respond robustly to surprise. The program was coordinated through SRI International in Menlo Park, CA. As the program ended in 2007, SRI took the knowledge gained by the CALO and some of its key players and formed Siri."
pyre 15y ago
If they do release it, it will probably be a brain-dead version of it. It's not like Apple hasn't release products that aren't fully-fledged in the past. Sure, the parts of it that they put together will have all of the polish of an Apple product, but it may not be the whole she-bang that people are expecting.

by neebz 15y ago

IanMikutel 15y ago

Actually Siri is based off arguably more time, research and possibly funding than Google may have thrown at this particular problem. As I quoted from 9to5mac in my post: "In 2003, the US Government began the most ambitious Artificial Intelligence program in its history called the “Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes” or CALO program. The name was inspired by the Latin word “calonis”, which means “soldier’s servant”. Funded by DARPA as part of its Personal Assistant that Learns project, the program ran for five years and brought together more than 300 researchers from 25 of the top university and commercial research institutions, with the goal of “building a new generation of cognitive assistants that can reason, learn from experience, be told what to do, explain what they are doing, reflect on their experience, and respond robustly to surprise. The program was coordinated through SRI International in Menlo Park, CA. As the program ended in 2007, SRI took the knowledge gained by the CALO and some of its key players and formed Siri."

pyre 15y ago

If they do release it, it will probably be a brain-dead version of it. It's not like Apple hasn't release products that aren't fully-fledged in the past. Sure, the parts of it that they put together will have all of the polish of an Apple product, but it may not be the whole she-bang that people are expecting.