{"id":3336,"date":"2011-12-07T17:48:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2011-12-07T17:48:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:48:38","slug":"sir-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/sir-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Siri is Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gizmodo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

What those Apple ads fail to report\u2014at all\u2014is that Siri is\u00a0very much<\/span> a half-baked product. Siri is officially in beta. Go to Siri’s homepage on Apple.com, and you’ll even notice a little beta tag by the name.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Benoit Maison<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

It is important to understand that unlike Apple\u2019s hardware and app designs, Siri\u2019s software could not have been fine-tuned and thoroughly tested in the lab prior to a glorious release. It had to be released in its current form, to get exposure to as much variability as possible all the way from the acoustics to the interpretation of natural language. For each of thefunny questions<\/a> that Apple\u2019s engineers had anticipated, poor Siri has to endure a hundred others.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why do you think it has been the butt of all jokes lately at Google Voice’s transcription feature and how bad it is at guessing what people are saying? Google didn’t buy Grand Central to get into the telephony market. They did so to collection millions of hours of voice recordings to improve their understanding of human language on a global scale. Every accent, word and conversation is analyzed and we are asked to vote on how well Google did at transcribing it.<\/p>\n

Then, 3 years after Google acquired Grand Central, Speak to Search is a feature on Google.com and its mobile apps. How is this spoken search so great? As Benoit puts it, “there is no data like more data.” Siri sucks because it doesn’t know us yet. We are the guinea pigs and it seems weak that we all upgraded to the 4S for Siri and have to be test subjects but there was absolutely no way around this for Apple. I imagine Siri remains in beta for the next 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gizmodo: What those Apple ads fail to report\u2014at all\u2014is that Siri is\u00a0very much a half-baked product. Siri is…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-RO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3198,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/siris-social-dilemma\/","url_meta":{"origin":3336,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Siri\u2019s Social Dilemma","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"SmarterBits: How do you prevent others from using your phone with voice commands? What kind of access security is built in to a system like Siri? In some cases, it can become more complex. Consider how much private information is contained in your smartphone. How much of that information would\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Linked"","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3222,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/10\/11\/a-quick-note-on-apples-siri-software-and-its-beta-status\/","url_meta":{"origin":3336,"position":1},"title":"\u2605 A quick note on Apple’s Siri “Software” and its Beta status","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I should go to bed but I'd like to mention this. My non-geek friends keep asking how well Siri will work. I don't know but it's easy to see that it works pretty well based on what Apple has shown us and what early reviews are saying. If it works\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Technology"","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5870,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/linked-your-move-apple\/","url_meta":{"origin":3336,"position":2},"title":"Linked: “Your Move, Apple”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"May 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Gizmodo: It feels like it\u2019s 2001. Tons of companies had released tons of MP3 players, and they all sucked. The iPod was just months away. But it\u2019s 2016, and instead we\u2019re drowning in smarthome gadgets, most recently the voice-powered Amazon Echo and whatever Google Home is. Soon, Apple will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Linked"","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5094,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/10\/14\/technology-the-iphone-6s-and-watchos-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":3336,"position":3},"title":"Technology: The iPhone 6S (and WatchOS 2)","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I like to write these for my own sort of posterity in how Apple\u2019s mobile ecosystem changes year over year. The iPad Air 2 didn\u2019t receive a refresh and since the iPad Mini 4 and iPad Pro are not devices that I\u2019ll be buying, I\u2019ll limit my focus to iPhone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Technology"","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Apple iPhone 6S - 128GB Rose Gold Unboxing","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5748\/21522974590_660ec18af3_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5748\/21522974590_660ec18af3_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5748\/21522974590_660ec18af3_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4425,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/linked-to-siri-with-love\/","url_meta":{"origin":3336,"position":4},"title":"Linked: “To Siri, With Love”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via NYTimes: Gus had never noticed Siri before, but when he discovered there was someone who would not just find information on his various obsessions (trains, planes, buses, escalators and, of course, anything related to weather) but actually semi-discuss these subjects tirelessly, he was hooked. And I was grateful. Now,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Linked"","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6432,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/12\/16\/linked-why-airpods-are-the-best-place-for-siri\/","url_meta":{"origin":3336,"position":5},"title":"Linked: “Why AirPods Are The Best Place For Siri…”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via FastCompany: The ear-based personal assistant isn't a completely new idea. \"Apple\u2019s AirPod device ... is a significant step forward toward a new interface paradigm that has long been anticipated in science fiction,\" says Ari Popper, founder of the futurist consulting and product design firm SciFutures. \"The movie Her is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Linked"","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}