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David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 25/03/2013, at 7:19, "Ray T. Mahorney" <[email protected]> wrote: > You say that you have to have yourself as a contact I assume from this that > the phone doesn't > already know you are the account holder? Also is there a word limit on email > dictation? for > reasons of limited use of the hands my written emails are necessarily "terse" > > > Ray T. Mahorney > WA4WGA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 18:12 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: how smart Siri? > > Hi Ray, > > SIRI is designed to understand natural speech and for certain things it is > more forgiving than others. For example, you can tell SIRI any of the > following and it will do it perfectly: > > Set my alarm for 7 AM > Set my alarm for 7 in the morning > Wake me up at 7 > I have to get up at 7 > > However, if you tell it "Wake me up at 7 on Wednesday", for some reason it > will tell you that an alarm can't be set for more than 1 day ahead and then > it asks if you want to set a Reminder instead. > > Reminders are very easy to set and allow for good options. You can say: > > Remind me to Call John on Wednesday at 3 PM > Remind me to take the garbage out at 8 every Tuesday morning - this will set > a recurring reminder > > You can ask it to calculate stuff, regular arithmetic, tips/percentages and > so on. > You can ask it to convert most stuff > You can ask geographical information like "What is the fifth most populated > country in the world > Anything Wolfram Alpha has information about you can pretty much ask. > > By "how speaker independent is the program" I assume you mean does it > understand different people? If so, then yes, as long as you speak whatever > language you have your iPhone and SIRI set to without too much of an accent > then it should work quite well. I have a slight German accent but typically > SIRI understands me rather well. There are interesting instances where I say > something and SIRI repeats it completely differently. One example is that I > usually say "Call my work" if I want to call my main business number. SIRI > of course knows who I am since as long as you have yourself entered as a > contact with work number, home number, mobile number, email and addresses > and so on SIRI knows that "you" are you. Anyhow, I can say "Call my work > number" 10 times and it gets it right every time, but from time to time it > just seems to go off on a rant and it will say back "Call my brother" or > "Call Mike Roark" or something stupid like that. If I repeat "Call my work" > and really pronounce it, it will just not get it and I just say "Call > Sieghard at work" and that is fine. Then again later "Call my work" works > just fine. > > I think it might sometimes depend on how busy the servers are, maybe how > good your connection is, how much background noise there is and all that. > Normally background noise is dealt with very well, I have dictated short > text messages in a restaurant with a lot of background noise and it was no > problem. What is a problem is if you tell it something and somebody else is > talking very nearby, then SIRI may just continue to listen not knowing the > other person speaking is not part of what I am saying. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Ray T. Mahorney > Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 10:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: how smart Siri? > > Perhaps not the best way to phrase that but the question is this is there a > set of phrases the program recognizes or has to be prompted with other than > the program name before requests can be carried out? Also how speaker > independent is the program? > > > Ray T. 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