In my opinion, Microsoft's Cortana, its Virtual Personal Assistant
BLOWS Apple's Siri OUT of the WATER in terms of what it can do. Also,
Microsoft is allowing its WP App Developers to incorporate the use of
Microsoft's Cortana with the functionality of apps. I only HOPE App
Developers provide more Microsoft Narrator friendly access as well as
access to other disabled populations without diminishing features of the apps.
At 05:18 AM 11/27/2014, you wrote:
Here in the United States there have been commercials over the last
couple of months comparing Siri to the Windows phone personal
assistant called Cortana. If you guys want some amusement go to
YouTube and do a search for Siri Cortona commercials and you will be
highly amused. One of my personal ones is the mirror mere.
On Nov 27, 2014, at 12:57 AM, Jonathan Mosen
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Hi kelly. This demonstrates that the vision of Siri has yet to be
truly fulfilled. The idea with such services as announced in 2011
was that you could talk to your phone in natural language style,
much like you would ask your personal assistant a question. Indeed,
Siri has been described as a personal assistant. One shouldn't have
to get a syntax just so in order to get the answer you want.
Natural language queries will improve over time, and it is good to
know that at least if you ask a question in just the right way, you
may get the answer you're looking for. Who knows what things will
be like a year from now, but at this point it seems Google can
parse queries a little more intelligently, at least in some cases.
Apple seem to know it has some catch-up to do. Word is they are
devoting some serious new resources to improving what Siri can do.
I suspect we will see big things relating to Siri in iOS 9.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
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On 27/11/2014, at 1:59 pm, Kelly Pierce
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Jonathan,
I was able to successfully convert $19.95 in American currency to New
Zealand dollars. first in converting currencies in SIRI, it is always
important to say the name of the country using dollars, as multiple
countries call their currency dollars. I told both SIRI and Google
quote "convert 19 point 95 United States dollars into New Zealand
dollars" end quote. I received the exact value from both SIRI and
Google. In your instance, it was an unfair comparison, disadvantaging
Apple. As discussed previously on this list, SIRI requires people to
use the word convert at the beginning of a currency conversion. SIRI
taps into yahoo finance, which uses the command structure country
followed by currency name of originating currency followed by the
country name and currency name of destination currency. when this
syntax is used, SIRI can be used easily for currency conversion.
What was interesting was that SIRI and Google reported a penny
difference in your example.
Kelly
On 11/26/14, Jonathan Mosen
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Charles. That link takes you to the Audioboom website, which
is a popular
way of creating and distributing audio. But here is the direct link to the
MP3.
<https://audioboom.com/boos/2684908-audio-comparison-siri-versus-google-voice-search.mp3>https://audioboom.com/boos/2684908-audio-comparison-siri-versus-google-voice-search.mp3
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
<http://Mosen.org>http://Mosen.org
On 27/11/2014, at 8:46 am, Charles Rivard
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
How do I get this audio recording into a folder of audio recordings that
is on my PC? The link you supplied takes me to your web site, but what
would be the next step or steps? Thanks.
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From: Jonathan Mosen <<mailto:[email protected]>mailto:[email protected]>
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
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Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 8:41 AM
Subject: Audio Demonstration: Siri versus Google Voice Search
Hi everyone. I've put together a half-hour comparison of Siri and Google
Voice Search, performing a range of tasks.
Hope some of you find it useful.
<https://audioboom.com/boos/2684908-audio-comparison-siri-versus-google-voice-search>https://audioboom.com/boos/2684908-audio-comparison-siri-versus-google-voice-search
<https://audioboom.com/boos/2684908-audio-comparison-siri-versus-google-voice-search>
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
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