The only thing I've ever found it useful for is saying "Raptors Score" and checking how my Raptors are doing in the ball game. That's literally all I've ever used it for, and it works great. :)
Ask HN: Does anybody still use Siri?
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#22Setting alarms and timers is fantastic with Siri.
Nap alarm: "Wake me up in X minutes/hours"
Normal alarm: "Wake me up at X AM/PM"
Timer: "Set a 45 minute timer"
Other than that, I don't use Siri. I find that if Siri gets my query wrong even once, it would have been faster for me to look the thing up manually.
Oh, also as a party gag you can ask Siri what 0/0 is. Stone cold.
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#23Yup. Use it figure out kcal on stuff, route directions home, set timers, delete/set alarms, dictate text messages as I run, set calendar events for stuff like laundry.
I use it on both my watch and phone.
Directions also work better if you put in addresses under work, home and friends so you don't need to spell out non-English addresses.
My personal favorite is setting reminders.
"Hey Siri... Remind me to call Chris when I leave home tomorrow morning".
It'll geofence the reminder to be in the morning when I get on the train. Amazing.
Don't forget currency conversion. "Convert 20 000 US dollars to Swedish Krona"
Sometimes I do quick math: "Two point one seven six percent of two point one two million"
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#24I use Google Now for calling, setting alarms and reminders. I cannot use Siri because it does not recognize my accent.
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#25I use Siri a few times a week for setting timers and alarms, looking up various trivia while in conversation with friends, and identifying background music in restaurants/bars.
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#26Music: "play song/album/artist"
PIctures: "show me pictures from May 3, 2007"
Phone: "call mobile"
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#27Music: "play song/album/artist" PIctures: "show me pictures from May 3, 2007" Phone: "call mobile"
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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use Siri?
#28Every day, but for simple things otherwise it doesn't understand my New Zealand / Australian accent at all well. When I wake up I ask for a whether report, when I'm at work I often set alarms or reminders quickly using it while working. The list goes on but it's all pretty simple stuff that I find useful. I have found it randomly replies / starts talking / listening to input without me saying anything remotely like 'hey Siri' though which does get annoying - I haven't logged a bug for this because I've never had apple respond to a single of my many hundreds of bug reports over the years.
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#29A lot of people use Siri and Google Now. They just don't use it in public like they used to. It took a few years for the etiquette around voice command to develop. Also, the newness is worn off so it's not interesting to demo anymore, just like nobody shows you how they can send and receive text messages.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use Siri?
#30Not really, siri and all the other voice assistants have to be the biggest marketing success in years that nobody cares about anymore. Why success and not flop then? because everyone rushed to get one, and several startups all over the world popped out to offer an alternative.
But nobody uses it, its cumbersome, it barely works most of the time for the kind of complex tasks its supposed to help you out with and only really works with really basic stuff like reminders and alarms which you can set up in a sec without disclosing your schedule to everyone around you.
Also the AI sucks, its ironic that its textbots that are actually doing what siri and its many "brothers" were supposed to.