You know, one of the very simplest things that Siri always gets right is 
opening an app when I Hasket too. Google doesn't. More often than not on my 
android device, when I ask Google to open an app I get a stupid screen I have 
to then tap on the instructions it says open this app. Google is really smart 
about a lot of things, so why can't it yet opening apps right?
Mary


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> On Jun 18, 2017, at 12:10 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Mr. Ed
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 11:45 AM
> To: [email protected]
> 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Sieghard Weitzel
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 12:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Kevin Chao
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 10:35 PM
> To: [email protected]
> 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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Kevin Chao
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 9:12 PM
> 
> To: Viphone <[email protected]>
> 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 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> No, just the public beta software program.
> > On 14 Jun 2017, at 22:26, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
> > Of christopher hallsworth
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 12:42 PM
> > To: Viphone <[email protected]>
> > 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Ming.
> >> Even if this is true people beta testing IOS 11 cannot discuss. I am not 
> >> one of them that's why I'm replying.
> >> Have a great day.
> >> Jen
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
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> >>> On Jun 13, 2017, at 3:29 AM, 'Ming' via VIPhone 
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> >>> hi all!
> >>> anyone know that in IOS 11 it has some new siri voices.
> >>> does the voices also can work in voice over as well?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> thanks!
> >>> Ming
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