accessible-iOS Re: opinions on sirie reliability in iphones and ipads, and also with different lanGuages

  • From: Jessica D <jldail13@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "accessible-ios@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <accessible-ios@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 06:41:07 -0400

What language do you speak?
You type very well in English.
Jessica

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 5, 2013, at 1:22 AM, Gordan Radić <razbijaci@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
> The main trouble is that Siri is language dependent.
> I use my phone in my language which, of course, Siri is not supporting. When 
> I want it to perform some task like setting the alarm it works, but when I 
> want to call or text someone it's getting very unconvinient. In previous 
> versions, I believe prior to 6.1.2 I was able to tell Siri to call someone by 
> pronouncing the persons name as I would in my language. Now I need to 
> pronounce the name as the native English speaker would do and that's a tongue 
> gymnastics in my language xD.
> If someone is not native English speaker I'd rather recommend Dragon 
> Dictation which really surprised me with its precision of captioning spoken 
> text.
> Not sure if the Googles voice recognition app could be installed on IOS but 
> from what I tested by using Youtube Voice Search it also works great.
> 
> 
> S poštovanjem
> Gordan Radić
> 
> On 5.9.2013. 7:03, covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I have not found this to be true -- for calling someone it works fine,
>> but I can't give it two sentences of text without an error or several
>> and by the time I have to correct the errors, I may as well type the
>> text.
>> 
>> Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> It is usually reliable, but remember it is server-based. Your device 
>>> listens to you, sends the audio to Apple's servers, and then gets the text 
>>> of the audio back (parsing audio locally would be very resource-intensive 
>>> and would likely be slower than even the cloud-based method in use now). 
>>> Siri can do a lot and generally gets things right, but it is not perfect. 
>>> Still, for setting an appointment or reminder, sending a text, calling 
>>> someone, looking for businesses, doing a web search, launching an app, and 
>>> so on, it works well and is quite a time-saver. The next version of iOS, 
>>> due out in a few weeks, will increase Siri's functionality to system tasks, 
>>> so you can tell it to turn on Voiceover or turn off bluetooth, among other 
>>> new commands. The iPhone 4S and newer has Siri, as does the iPad 4 or 
>>> newer, the iPad Mini, and the iPod Touch 5 or newer.
>>> On Sep 4, 2013, at 11:03 PM, Beto Arreola <beto.arreola22@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi, it is quite reliable, but it all depends on what type of service you 
>>>> are expecting from it.
>>>> On Sep 4, 2013, at 8:59 PM, Nikki Dadlani <nikkidadlani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Dear IOS Users,
>>>>> I do not own an IOS device.  I wanted to ask about Sirie's reliability 
>>>>> with Iphones, Ipads, and Ipods (I don't even know if they have it on 
>>>>> ipods.) I wanted to know the reliability.  Also, I have heard that there 
>>>>> is Sirie in other languages.  What's the reliability on that?
>>>>> Thank you so much.
>>>>> Nikki
>>>>> Sent from My Braille Note
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>>> Have a great day,
>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini)
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