http://mashable.com/2011/...c-question

LMAO. I knew it would get to this.

I do think that once Siri matures, it will be quite amazing. I wonder how apple perfected her 'listening' capability--there are so many accents in the USA, it stuns me that she seems to get it correct most of the time.

What company did they buy to do this?

there's already a whole blog dedicated to Siri's quirkier responses.

http://siriouslyweird.tumblr.com/

http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/

[Edited 10/15/11 22:09pm]

imago said:

http://mashable.com/2011/...c-question

LMAO. I knew it would get to this.

I do think that once Siri matures, it will be quite amazing. I wonder how apple perfected her 'listening' capability--there are so many accents in the USA, it stuns me that she seems to get it correct most of the time.

What company did they buy to do this?

it was an app that was available before. now it's not.

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errant said:

imago said:

http://mashable.com/2011/...c-question

LMAO. I knew it would get to this.

I do think that once Siri matures, it will be quite amazing. I wonder how apple perfected her 'listening' capability--there are so many accents in the USA, it stuns me that she seems to get it correct most of the time.

What company did they buy to do this?

it was an app that was available before. now it's not.

crap!

errant said:

imago said:

http://mashable.com/2011/...c-question

LMAO. I knew it would get to this.

I do think that once Siri matures, it will be quite amazing. I wonder how apple perfected her 'listening' capability--there are so many accents in the USA, it stuns me that she seems to get it correct most of the time.

What company did they buy to do this?

it was an app that was available before. now it's not.

it was an app, now it's integrated into the OS - that's a pretty big difference. They certainly aren't going to ahve a second team maintaining a stripped down version to run as an app when they have it integrated into the OS.

where did it come from?

As for how well it works I've used Siri for about a day or so now, it's quite impressive. It almost always knows what i'm saying the first time.

From any app, you hold the home button down for a second and it pops up, press it again and you're back in your app. While it's up, you can ask as many things as you want and it keeps a scrolling history of that session.

"What is the weather" brings up the 5 day forecast.

"Is it going to rain tonight" tells you the answer and brings up the hourly forecast

"where am I" shows your current location on a map

"where is " followed by the name of a location brings up a list of whatever you asked for nearby, tells you how many miles away you are from them, and if you click on, you get those results shown in the map.

It works great for playing music - all of these are much easier than exiting your app, starting the music app, searching for what you want, starting it, then returning to your app

"play the album Purple Rain" stars playing the album

"play purple rain" starts playing the song

"play" name of list "mix" or "playlist" will start playing those songs

We were out today, I found out something wasn't working right on my web site, I told siri "remind me to fix the site when I get home". It created a reminder that said "fix the site" and set it to alert me when I arrived at home. Sure enough, as I pulled into the garage and the alert went off. This is the first time I used the new reminders app - I didn't even have to know there was a new reminders app, I certainly haven't looked into how to set the app to set a reminder based on when I arrive at a location.

Say a math equation and it doesn't just give you the answer, it gives the detailed info from wolfram alpha. For example, I said "what is the value of pi" and got back all of this information

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pi

certainly you can get the same information by launching the web browser, going to wolfram alpha, then typing in "pi" in the search field. Siri just makes it so much easier to access the information.

[Edited 10/15/11 23:43pm]

Can Siri's voice be switched off? Like, just have a text answer? It's bad enough, we'll all be talking to the damn thing, but have a whole bus full of Siri's answering 'what is the meaning of life'? Please no.

[Edited 10/16/11 5:07am]

I like Siri. I'm impressed so far.

I'm also glad they gave it a bit of an attitude.

To be fair, I think TellMe needs different kinds of commands to function properly.