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Ask HN: Does anybody still use Siri?
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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use Siri?
#32There's two aspects to Siri. First is speech recognition, second is the actual AI. Apple's speech recognition is very good. I use it as speech-to-text all the time in iMessage. I save a lot of time by speaking rather than by typing. It's more than 95% accurate for that purpose. The Siri AI is very hit-or-miss. Sure it's great for finding out the latest football score. But if it winds up only being 50% responsive in g…
Out of curiosity, what would a typical voice command be to write a text message? I haven't really tried this.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use Siri?
#33There's two aspects to Siri. First is speech recognition, second is the actual AI. Apple's speech recognition is very good. I use it as speech-to-text all the time in iMessage. I save a lot of time by speaking rather than by typing. It's more than 95% accurate for that purpose. The Siri AI is very hit-or-miss. Sure it's great for finding out the latest football score. But if it winds up only being 50% responsive in g…
Out of curiosity, what would a typical voice command be to write a text message? I haven't really tried this.
Activate Siri and say "text (name) the rain in Spain ..." And then Siri asks if you are ready to send it. Just say "yes".
But most of the time I don't even bother with the Siri AI, I just use speech recognition in the iMessage app. There is a little microphone symbol on the keyboard.
The speech recognition works anywhere there is a keyboard. E.g. if you are using Google Maps, when you call up a keyboard to type something, the mic symbol is there.
Kids use their thumbs to text quickly, but I find it's much faster for me to speak something.
Edit: I touch-type pretty quickly on a full size keyboard. It's the tiny smartphone keyboards that slow me way down. I've never tried Swype, it's probably much faster than trying to hit keys on the tiny iPhone keyboard.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use Siri?
#34> or an Android equivalent
I use Google Now and Now On Tap a lot! Daily weather checks, commute check, setting reminders, when we're discussing something and need something googled. Drinking beer with friends and wanna show em a pic? Just say "OK google show me pics from my last trip to london" without reaching at the table, unlocking, scrolling and all that.
Now on tap is super useful when discussing something via txt, just hold home button and get all the info you need.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use Siri?
#35Yes, I wish it would do a lot more but I use it to:
- Set timers - Set alarms - Call people - Create calendar events
now mostly on the watch where it kind of is the only sensible interface for input. Although very slow.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use Siri?
#36I use Siri each time I want to set my alarm clock. Other functionalities are faster using the standard way.