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- Voice Over often just outright failed. The accuracy for speech interpretation was good, but not great. - The tasks that it could actually do were simplistic
by potatolicious 15y ago
- Voice Over often just outright failed. The accuracy for speech interpretation was good, but not great.
- The tasks that it could actually do were simplistic (pause! play! call Bob! next track!) and often it was more work to turn on Voice Over and talk, and easier to just touch the device and be done with it.
- Voice Over had a very limited verb database that you had to learn. It wasn't so much natural language recognition as simply using voice to input a (very) limited set of commands.
Siri is (ostensibly) not subject to any of the above limitations, so if it works as advertised it really will be completely different from Voice Over.
- hopeless 15y agoMy point wasn't that Siri wasn't any good (or even that Voice Control was bad — it worked when I needed it) but that users neither know not care about it. In fact, the only users who knew about it probably discovered it accidentally by holding the home button down! As you say, time will tell whether it's a hit. I'm betting not.