I agree with everything you said! Siri works less well with each passing day. Siri works better when I had my four is. Siri tells me nothing!
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 13, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Kay Malmquist <kay.malmqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes! Yes! yes! Thank you for saying what I have been feeling for quite some > time about siri. She, he or it is in my opinion, getting more and more > dense. Seems to me when I first got my 4 S years ago, siri was much more, > dare I say intelligent? Not so any more and I more often than not resort to > other apps to find things out. > > Kay Malmquist > kay.malmqu...@gmail.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <siegh...@live.ca> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 11:46 AM > Subject: RE: 4 Ways to Make Siri Smarter on Your iPhone, CNET > > > Can you give a few examples? Are these phone numbers for people or for > companies? If they are for companies, do you put the name only in the > Company field? If so you have to also add it to Last Name because SIRI is so > stupid (and has been for years) that it doesn't search the company field > only, the company has to be also written in the last name field. > If they are people, do you correctly put their first name in the first name > field and their last name in the last name field? > Do you enter phone numbers in the correct format, it is best to use the > international format even for numbers that are local to you, here is an > example: > Instead of just "1" you should put +1. You get the plus symbol when entering > a phone number by tapping the shift key to the right of the 0, then the 0 > becomes the plus symbol. > Now enter the number all without spaces, iOS will format it with parenthesis > around the area code and put a dash after the first 3 digits of the 7-digit > phone number. > When it comes to people I have no issues whatsoever when I ask SIRI to call > somebody unless it's a very unusually pronounced name, but when it comes to > companies SIRI can definitely be very stupid. Especially in iOS 11 even if a > number is in muy contacts SIRI will go and try to look it up online, I fail > to see what is so hard to first get SIRI to look at your contacts to see if > there is a match. > If I do ask SIRI to call a business which I know is not in my contacts at > times SIRI is so stupid that if the business is a chain it will give me > locations in all the cities in a 200 mile radius but not the one that is > half a mile away. > I unfortunately have not noticed much improvement with SIRI in iOS 11 and I > just don't get it how Apple continue to not get this to work. > Here an example. I live in a small town called Smithers. Apart from some > private liquor stores we also still have government run liquor stores here > in British Columbia > If I ask SIRI "Phone number for BC Liquor Store in Smithers" it tells me > here is the number and then proceeds to give me the number of the BC Liquor > Store in Burns Lake, a much smaller town about 2 hours drive from here. > If I ask Google using the exact same wording "Phone number for BC Liquor > Store in Smithers" I get the correct local phone number. > Last night my wife who is from the Philippines and I were talking about an > article about Jolliebee which is a huge fast food franchise in the > Philippines and they are expanding into other countries now including the > US, Canada, China and some european countries. They are in fact the 9th > largest fast food chain in the world. Anyhow, my wife was wondering if they > were around before McDonalds. I assumed correctly that McDonalds was started > much earlier, but that possibly they expanded to the Philippines after > Jolliebee came into existance. So I asked SIRI "When was McDonalds founded". > Of course I received the usual reply "I found something on the web about > when was McDonalds founded, take a look". Maybe the answer was there and a > sighted person may have seen it and might be happy with the answer. I just > ignored it and opened Google, asked the exact same question and received a > spoken answer, short and to the point. > I then even asked "When was the first McDonalds started in the Philippines" > and received the answer "According to McDonalds it was in 1981 when somebody > (forgot the name" started the first Mcdonalds franchise in the Philippines". > At the same time Google told me that Jolliebee was started in the Manila in > 1975. > Maybe it's the lack of access Apple has to Google why SIRI can answer so > many fewer questions, but I guess Apple should be able to make a deal with > Bing or some other search engine to find such answers online, maybe they > should just buy DuckDuckGo, it's not like they don't have enough money. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Deidre Muccio > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 4:18 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: 4 Ways to Make Siri Smarter on Your iPhone, CNET > > And how can I make Siri as smart as a Bumblebee when I ask her to dial or > call a phone number that is already in my contacts? Half the time she acts > like those contacts do not exist. > > Deidre > > >> On Nov 13, 2017, at 1:48 AM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: >> >> CNET How To - Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 5:00 AM >> 4 ways to make Siri smarter on your iPhone - CNET Sure, Siri sounds a >> bit less like a robot in iOS 11, but Apple's digital assistant still >> fails to understand me and mispronounces names. Siri is also more >> useful if she (my Siri has a British female voice, so I'll refer to >> Siri as a "she" here) knows my daily haunts and connects with any >> supported apps. >> Learn four easy ways to improve Siri's smarts. >> 1. >> Train Siri to hear you better >> If you have the "Hey Siri" feature enabled and Siri frequently fails >> to spring to life when you utter the magic words, then it's time to >> start over and retrain Siri. Go to Settings > Siri & Search and toggle >> the switch off and back on again for Listen for "Hey Siri." You'll go >> through the setup process again of training Siri to recognize your voice. >> Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET >> >> 2. >> Connect apps like Uber and Lyft to Siri 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. To check if an >> app has Siri support, go to Settings > Siri & Search and tap on an app >> from the list. 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. >> Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET >> >> 3. >> Correct Siri when she's wrong >> Siri makes her best guess at pronouncing names but, like teachers on >> the first day of school and John Travolta at awards shows, doesn't >> always get it right. You can, however, teach Siri how to correctly >> pronounce names in your Contacts. >> Siri, for example, goes 0 for 2 with Charlize Theron's name, >> butchering both the Oscar winner's first and last names. Tell Siri to >> "learn how to pronounce Charlize Theron" or if she has mispronounced >> it already, you can say, "That's not how you say that." >> Siri will quickly get over any embarrassment and ask, "OK, how do you >> pronounce the name (Charlize)?" Say the name correctly, and Siri will >> listen and offer you a few pronunciation choices. 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. >> Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET >> >> 4. >> Tell Siri where you live and work >> My favorite kind of reminders are location-based reminders. "Remind me >> to change over the laundry when I get home" or "Remind me to buy milk >> when I leave work" or "Remind me to drop off that form when I get to >> school." >> Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET >> In order for Siri to perform this location-based magic, she needs to >> know where you live, work and go to school. You'll also need to enable >> location services for reminders. >> First, open Contacts, find your listing, tap Edit and then tap add >> address. >> You there are labels for home and work but you can add a custom label >> that Siri will understand such as "school." >> The second step is go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services and >> make sure location services are turned on (toggle switch at the top) >> and enabled for Reminders (scroll down until you find it in your list of >> apps). >> Read more: Type instead of talk to Siri with iOS 11 >> >> Original Article At: >> https://www.cnet.com/how-to/4-ways-to-make-siri-smarter-on-your-iphone >> /#ftag >> =CAD5457c2c >> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone >> list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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