You are very wrong here, Ed, just because your wife doesn’t use it and maybe a few other people you know does not mean sighted people don’t use SIRI. I think you would need a somewhat larger statistical sample to draw an accurate conclusion as to how many sighted people use SIRI. If people would not use SIRI that would mean also Android users would not use Google Assistant or Windows users would not use Cortana. If this was so companies like Amazon or Google and now Microsoft would not spend so much time and effort in developing these digital assistants and in coming up with smartspeakers and what have you. How many millions of people in the US have bought the Echo or the Google Home, voice is the only way you can really interact with these things so obviously people must do it. I just think Apple is typical Apple here, they do things in their own way and time and don’t really care what people say. Look how long it took them to announce a speaker, now they have and they are not trying to make it sound like it goes right up against the Echo or Google Home, but they position it as an audio file speaker which is also smart and once they do in fact make SIRI a lot smarter which they will in their own time it will become more popular. Voice interface is definitely the up and coming thing and everybody does it and in time even people who currently may not use it will do so in a few years.
Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mr. Ed Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 11:45 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: New siri voices in IOS 11 Hi Sieghard, I have been thinking about what you have been saying about Siri. I know I agree with you that I wish Apple would make it do more. But I am wondering in the scheme of things I wonder how many sighted people use Siri like the visually impaired do. I know my wife does not use Siri and I cannot think of one sighted person I know ever use it. So I am thinking Apple does not improve Siri just for the blind and they don’t get much input from the sighted users, so that is why I am thinking they don’t improve it. Just my thought on this. Mr. Ed From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 12:39 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: RE: New siri voices in IOS 11 I know that they are reporting this just as they are reporting how Apple has and is hiring experts in autonomous/self-driving car technology. As far as SIRI goes, however, I want them to show that they are making some progress, it just seem sso ignorant that they are just not really improving SIRI but they of course know that is what everybody wants. From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Chao Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 10:35 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: New siri voices in IOS 11 Has already happend and will continue too...Apple has doubled-down on artificial intelligence/machine learning: they’ve acquired and continue to lots of talent in this domain. On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 9:59 PM Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca<mailto:siegh...@live.ca>> wrote: Great idea, let’s tell Apple to fire SIRI and hire the Google Assistant away from Google, after all, it’s not the first time Apple hired away talent from Google or other companies. . From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>] On Behalf Of Kevin Chao Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 9:12 PM To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> Subject: Re: New siri voices in IOS 11 I’m surprised to see so much attention devoted towards the more expressive Siri voices. I view it as a nice touch to the presnetaiton layer, but the structure and interaction, specifically with understanding, context, and meaningful intelligence has a lot to be desired. The only advantage Siri has is that it was first, but all other voice-based assistants are smarter, helpful, and useful. However, to be fair, even the best of the “Assistants” today would not last as a human Assistant in a job. We’ve been promised a bright future with the voice user interfaces, but a lot more resources and time needs to be realized before the “Year Million” is our reality. On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:59 PM christopher hallsworth <challswor...@icloud.com<mailto:challswor...@icloud.com>> wrote: No, just the public beta software program. > On 14 Jun 2017, at 22:26, Sieghard Weitzel > <siegh...@live.ca<mailto:siegh...@live.ca>> wrote: > > Did you seriously pay money to sign up for a developer account? In two or at > the most 3 weeks you could get the first public beta for free. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>] On Behalf > Of christopher hallsworth > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 12:42 PM > To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> > Subject: Re: New siri voices in IOS 11 > > And I'm not, *yet*. All I will say is, I have just signed up. >> On 13 Jun 2017, at 18:11, Jenifer Barr >> <claudas...@gmail.com<mailto:claudas...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi Ming. >> Even if this is true people beta testing IOS 11 cannot discuss. 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