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If you watch normal people using Google, you'll notice that they do this already.
Heck, I suppose I do, too.
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Siri doesn't support Portuguese, or any Latin languages other than French at this time. iOS 6 adds Spanish and Italian, and I assume Portuguese can't be far behind.
So what? My point is that Siri doesn't apply as a valid/common "person" name in some languages and used the meaning in portuguese as an example.
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If its better, the question becomes: does Google release it on iOS as well, and will Apple allow them too. However, i think the US readers are missing the most important aspect: how many people in the world can you serve? This is a system selling feature during a crucial generation. The speed they can rollout new languages, will determine the world market and the long tail, which will prove crucual. Currently, Google…
Apple has one (1) datacenter in the entire world, and it's in the USA. How good do you think the latency from Holland will be? Google has datacenters in Groningen and Eemshaven, and all over Europe.
In any case, wherever Siri runs, I don't think that Internet latency comes close to explaining the latency, and, I think, Siri can actually hide a lot of latency.
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Personally, I think that's a little gimmicky. I think it was very smart of Google to not differentiate this too much, but let people think that this smarter AI thing, is actually still "Google". So in the future people will just refer to "Google" when doing stuff like this. It's also a bit silly seeing people talking to "Siri" in public.
>It's also a bit silly seeing people talking to "Siri" in public. I wouldn't be surprised if this is exactly what the future will bring us as SIRI improves. People talking to it more or less the same you see them talking to their pets now.
In public it's much easier, more accurate and far less obvious to use this other method of activating Siri: When the screen is on, picking up the phone and putting the handset to ones ear will activate Siri, but far more discretely that the usual full volume activation. Any casual observer won't even realise that the user is engaging Siri, let alone talking to a robot.
This is also part of the problem with the "accuracy" studies of Siri in public places. It's just non sensical to be shouting at your phone over street noise, of course the accuracy is decreasing in this environment. Not even the users voice is the same in this environment. However when using the handset to the ear method: the accuracy remains acceptably high, and no one has to look silly publicly announcing their dinner plans.