This has the instant effect of killing my enthusiasm, besides making me conclude that voice commands are not for me. I think many iPhone users have had a similar experience, and that maybe another reason why Siri has not caught on. However after I got my Amazon Echo Spot and discovered how good it was, I realised voice assistants are viable. Or I am probably suffering a serious case of resistance to change. But deep down, I know I spend too much time on screens, and it would be nice to give my eyes and fingers a break by using voice assistants.
So like the rest of India who are slowly buying into voice controlled gadgets, I think I too am now slowly becoming more open to voice.
Unlike voice, everyone loves widgets. I loved being able to get my running app and music app going with a single tap of a widget.
But then I found there was an option to ask Siri to do it for me. I tried out a couple of other Siri Phrases combinations with Siri Shortcuts, and they too worked flawlessly. For the first time, I am willing to try using Siri on a regular basis. Yes, Apple may have cleverly persuaded me to train Siri. She is still nowhere as smart as Google or Alexa. But all that training helps turn iOS into a level playing field for Siri. Take an Indian name like Babu.
So Siri is never going to get it right. She will follow the Western phonetic system, and pronounce it like baboon. Which self-respecting Babu would like to be called a baboon?
Really, Siri! At which, she asks me the correct way to pronounce babu. She then listens carefully, and offers up five optional ways in which she can pronounce it.
Once I select an option, Siri thanks me for correcting her. Hopefully she permanently stops referring to babu as baboon. I try it with Siri. She starts the music app. That would explain how she picked it up. But I also make another interesting observation. There are less words that sound like song. If you have an iPhone, using Siri as your main voice assistant just makes sense. To help optimize this is to place your iPhone on a table but within eyesight so that you can read the screen.
Chances are that Siri pronounces the name wrongly every time and has a hard time understanding the name when you say it. You can train her to hear it correctly. You probably already did this when you first set up your smarthome gear, but if not, do so. The steps for renaming devices within their own apps vary, as a result the details are not here.
Many users wait a second or two before shouting out their voice command to give Siri time to start listening. Apple opened up Siri to third-party apps with iOS 10 but supported apps are still few and far between. And Siri is shy with such apps, waiting on you to make the introduction before they begin talking to one another.
If you see a toggle switch for Use with Siri , then the app is supported. Toggle it on and you can, for example, ask Siri to get you an Uber or a Lyft without touching either app. You can, however, teach Siri how to correctly pronounce names in your Contacts. You can play each option and select the one that sounds the best. After sorting out the first name, Siri will then take you through the same process for the last name. My favorite kind of reminders are location-based reminders. In order for Siri to perform this location-based magic, she needs to know where you live, work and go to school.
First, open Contacts , find your listing, tap Edit and then tap add address. The topic was speech recognition, and whether a new and unproven approach to machine intelligence—something called deep learning—could help computers more effectively identify the spoken word. These researchers had already settled on their own algorithms. This, in a field where a 5 percent improvement is game-changing. Now, nearly five years later, neural network algorithms are hitting the mainstream, making computers smarter in new and exciting ways.
IBM uses them. And, most remarkably, Microsoft uses neural networks as part of the Star-Trek-like Skype Translate, which translates what you say into another language almost instantly. Though Apple is famously secretive about its internal operations—and did not provide comment for this article—it seems that the company previously licensed voice recognition technology from Nuance—perhaps the best known speech recognition vendor. But those in the tight-knit community of artificial intelligence researchers believe this is about to change.
Lee would know. Apple hired one of his top managers, Alex Acero, last year. Another speech research hire: Arnab Ghoshal, a researcher from the University of Edinburgh. With iOS 13 coming, the smart assistant will be able to personalize your experience on the HomePod.
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