Wren, you have to be careful not to pause too long or she will think you have 
finished. Myself, I have not noticed any difference in her timing for a while, 
but perhaps I don’t give her time to cut me off.

 

Neal

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Wren Langley
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 8:22 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful

 

Hi all, I have also noticed something very disappointing about Siri. You can 
hardly say anything to her without being cut off you barely get a few words out 
and she's gone or at least she won't let you say anymore. Sometimes I can only 
get two or three words out and she cuts me off. I have done this with text 
message notes and reminders. Thank you all for the nice messages about what 
Siri is not doing. These are always good to learn from. God bless, Wren Langley

Sent from my iPhone


On Apr 16, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Neal Ewers <neal.ew...@ravenswood.org> wrote:

Hi, While I have at least solved the Siri reminder for me, see my last email on 
this, I do find that Siri is becoming less useful. More and more, I use Google. 
Obviously, Google won’t open apps for me, set alarms, etc., but for non-device 
specific things I want to know, Google is now more often able to answer my 
questions. I find that sometimes Siri will, but the way you have to ask her 
something can sometimes seem rather picky. Example. During the NCAA basketball 
tournament, I wanted to know when the Wisconsin Badger game with Kentucky was 
on. So I asked, “What time to the Wisconsin Badgers play Kentucky today?” She 
didn’t know. I thought I remembered the time, so I asked, “Who is playing 
basketball at 8:15 PM today?” She said, “Wisconsin is playing at 8:15 today.” 
Now, I ask you, how silly is that? So since she knew the answer to that and not 
to when the badgers were playing, she knew half the answer I needed. So, I have 
now started referring to her as Siri half wit. The one good thing about Siri 
these days is that Apple allows Google to be put on the IDevice.

Come on Apple, it’s not that you can’t do it. Siri used to be better. What goes 
here?

 

Neal

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
carol.pearso...@googlemail.com
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:13 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful

 

Ugh!  I'm really getting quite disappointed with Siri and, if he/she can't 
manage those alarms now, well ...

 

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  Maybe we need to start pressing in 
on some of Siri's behaviour as I don't think it's really coming up to scratch.

 

Carol P

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Sieghard Weitzel <mailto:siegh...@live.ca>  

To: viphone@googlegroups.com 

Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:43 AM

Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful

 

Hi,

 

Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say 
exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a 
way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or 
whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like 
this:

 

Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM

SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I 
would then do the second part like this example:

Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM

SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: 
Dentist appointment at 10 AM.

 

Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I 
have above in part 2, the reply will be this:

Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”.

 

In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event 
and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the 
time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind 
myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call 
or whatever it is as part of the reminder.

 

Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on 
Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a 
reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype 
call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. 
Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to 
create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally 
tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with 
Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough.

 

Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*.

 

 

Regards,

Sieghard

 

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