The good news is that the hard work is done. General speech recognition
without training and interpreting meaning was a tough nut to crack. Now
it's just a matter of hooking it into everything. Apple officially lists
Siri as 'beta' so I'm sure there are kinks. Embedding it more deeply in
the phone will be an obvious easy path for them to improve
functionality. Right now it's sort of a standalone thing which knows how
to hook into a handful of services which apparently has some gaps. That
said, for voicemail a current workaround is to set up a contact named
anything but voicemail and set their phone number to your voicemail:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3411238?start=0&tstart=0
I couldn't find anything on the battery query. Probably because anything
to do with iphone and battery gets buried in articles about the
automatic time zone location service draining batteries.
CB
On 11/1/11 10:40 AM, Sarah May wrote:
Hi List,
I looked at Siri on the new I-phone 4 yesterday at my Apple store in
Minneapolis. For me who has dexterity and finger issues I thought
Siri would be great for me. I have a problem putting enough pressure
to perform gestures. Well, when I tried her out I asked if she could
check the voice mail for me. She wasn't able to do that. Then I
asked her to check how much battery life was left on the phone. She
tried to Google that for me. I thought it was awesome when I asked
her what the weather was outside and she was able to tell me. I was
disappointed that she wasn't able to answer those simple questions or
to be able to do the simple commands of checking my voice mail and
battery life. I asked the Apple tech person if Siri would be able to
navigate through the phone menus and make them work for me. She said
"no." I told her that Siri is very cool in some respects, but until
Siri can operate and find all the simple functions on the phone, that
I wouldn't be interested in purchasing it when my phone contract is up
and I can upgrade to a new one. The tech person did tell me that Siri
is quite new and that probably other people are voicing to Apple the
same complaints that I have with her. I told her that my upgrade for
a new phone will be in 2012. I said to her "hopefully by then Siri
will be able to do all those simple and necessary functions that
people want her to perform like myself." I thanked her for her time
and left.
Again, for someone who has dexterity issues with wide, fat fingers,
even if voice over was on, I have tried an I-Phone like that, I made a
lot of mistakes and wouldn't be able to work the phone very well. SO
I was disappointed with SIri. Hopefully, down the road she will
improve enough where I'll want to purchase an I-phone with her on it
and will love it. I thught I'd report to all of you that use I-Phones
and thinking about upgrading to the latest version with SIri.
Have a great day!
Sarah
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