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Last post: 10 months, 2 weeks ago | Thread started: Jul 8, 12, 4:40 a.m.
- monkeyshine
hy·per·bo·le [hahy-pur-buh-lee]
noun Rhetoric .
1. obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “Completely destroys Siri.”
- Dog-earJul 8, 12, 7:46 a.m. – Permalink
- orrinward2
I would much rather see the dev time put somewhere else. I don't use voice search as even with recent advances it is still error prone and also, I look like a twat using it.
I imagine one of the reasons Siri hasn't had much press time lately is because Apple have found response to Siri to has been mediocre. Voice search is great for sci-fi nerds but the masses aren't receptive.
It's more of a showboat than something genuinely very useful to most people.
Standard disclaimer when 'backing team Apple' - I'm an Android user and a big fan of android generally.
- Dog-earJul 8, 12, 8:01 a.m. – Permalink
- monolith
I think the whole voice technology Google really introduced and now perfected really is one step closer to actually using with glasses they are doing. The smarter and faster these voice interactions are with the device the less need will be for us to do anything. On a phone it might be a bit funky, but on glasses it will be perfect. True future shit.
Siri failed because it sucked, not because it people don't want voice controlled interaction.
- Dog-earJul 8, 12, 8:51 a.m. – Permalink
- inteliboy
Siri hasn't failed, nor does it suck. You sounds like an obnoxious nerd spitting wads of dorito crumbs at your screen.
Either way, Google voice looks great, and increasingly the only difference between phones is... umh... nothing. So the fanboy war is kind of boring now and shit is getting better and cheaper. Win win.
- Dog-earJul 8, 12, 11:40 p.m. – Permalink
- animatedgif
Nice demo but really the only thing I ever use Siri for is playing music or setting timers when cooking (mostly this)
Google Now is impressive tech but really all it's doing 90% of the time is spitting queries into google and pulling the content back (more just shows off how impressive Google Search is). The only thing that stood out to me as genuinely impressive was the bus stop times, which isn't really part of the voice system.
Voice systems are just not that useful beyond calling people and changing tracks in cars.
- Dog-earJul 9, 12, 3:57 a.m. – Permalink
- autoflavour
its funny, i think siri is a bit naff ..
but lately i have been using it to set alarms and timers etc..
and in that context, its much quicker than doing it by hand- Dog-earJul 9, 12, 6:42 p.m. – Permalink
- Miguex
Why is it that every time someone calls a new product "the (insert currently top product) killer" is pretty match a way to know this new product will fail?
As a marketing gimmick that's pretty much the worst thing you can do with a new product, you are setting it up to fail from the start, regarding on what the product is, you would think that with all the examples we have in the past, people will remember.
- Dog-earJul 9, 12, 6:54 p.m. – Permalink
