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Siri is still half deaf and tries to send me to the chip shop when I ask it to send a message and they have a ridiculous amount of budget behind that so probabl
by setquk 7y ago
Siri is still half deaf and tries to send me to the chip shop when I ask it to send a message and they have a ridiculous amount of budget behind that so probably not.
At the moment our technology is like Zorg’s desk in Fifth Element. Stuffed full of toys but ultimately will let you down too often to be relied upon.
- antongribok 7y ago"like Zorg’s desk in Fifth Element"... What a great analogy! For those that don't know the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krcNIWPkNzA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krcNIWPkNzA (I think this is my favorite Gary Oldman character.)
- imglorp 7y agoGoogle no better. You still can't "send my wife a Slack message" or "read me the last SMS received" or even "send a hangouts message to Bob". Some of the integrations are willfully missing for obvious business reasons.
- arethuza 7y ago"send me to the chip shop" Do you have an accent by any chance - pretty much all voice recognition technology (Android, Apple, cars...) appears to be utterly flummoxed by my fairly mild Scottish accent. [Edit: to be fair, my accent is probably fairly mild by Scottish standards, not compared to RP].
- hondadriver 7y agoMust be it, a golden oldy about Scottish speech recognition (2010): https://youtu.be/NMS2VnDveP8 https://youtu.be/NMS2VnDveP8
- arethuza 7y agoI have to stop myself posting that every time the subject comes up (I know what it is without opening the link) :-)
- setquk 7y agoI’ve got a fairly heavy London accent.
- arethuza 7y agoMaybe we should join forces and found a voice technology testing company!
- Traubenfuchs 7y agoThis. What are the people in this thread talking about? Siri and Alexa mess up way too much.