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The humor in some of the responses is a really nice touch; perhaps something I didn't expect from Apple, who is fairly straight-down-the-line with their dialogs
by elithrar 15y ago
The humor in some of the responses is a really nice touch; perhaps something I didn't expect from Apple, who is fairly straight-down-the-line with their dialogs and software.
Saying that, it's actually appreciated, and does a great job at attempting to establish an emotional tie with the user.
- teyc 15y agoThe humour is classic Jobs. When he introduced the original Macintosh, it began with a speech synthesizer telling a joke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-XwPjn9YY&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-XwPjn9YY&feature=relat... forward to 3:20
- ajanuary 15y agoThat was actually written by Steve Hayden (http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Intro_Demo.txt&topic=The%20Launch&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...)
- rahoulb 15y agoAs Gruber says, it sounds much more like the old Apple than the new Apple (see Happy Mac, Dogcow etc).
- Bud 15y agoApple's computer-speech stuff has been humorous since the 1980s. Not surprising to see Siri follow in that tradition.
- interknot 15y agoMr. Macintosh begs to differ: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Mister_Macintosh.txt http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Mister_Macintosh.txt I also really like that the story proves you to be thoroughly correct about Apple trying to establish emotional ties. Here's hoping that they made that a part of their "corporate DNA".
- jameshart 15y agoSome of the humor and personality people detect in Siri may be grandfathered in from Wolfram Alpha, which has stock responses to certain queries. It's particularly good at joining in with movie quotes.
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- robterrell 15y agoThe Mac's desktop speech recognizer, which is so old most Mac users don't even know exists, even tells knock-knock jokes (in response to "tell me a joke" -- the script it follows is in ~/Library/Speech/Speakable Items). And this has been a feature of Mac OS since the pre-OSX days.
- robterrell 15y agoThe Mac's desktop speech recognizer, which is so old most Mac users don't even know exists, even tells knock-knock jokes (in response to "tell me a joke" -- the script it follows is in ~/Library/Speech/Speakable Items). And this has been a feature of Mac OS since the pre-OSX days.