Do you use Siri?

mad muffin

Deleted User wrote: »

I've yet to use Siri & have it understand what I'm saying correctly.

For example, I'll say exactly the above passage to Siri:

Tapping the microphone.....now.

"I'm getting Siri would understand anything"

See?

I'm sorry, but I don't even understand that?

Sad Professor

120_Minutes wrote: »

vast majority of irish smartphone users are either unwilling or unable to use their phones for more than the mere basics.

"sure i'm no good at this stuff"

the irony is that siri et al make it easier.

People with this mindset are mostly Android users in my experience. Everyone I know with an iPhone seems to know how to make the most of it. A lot of Android users use their phone to make calls and nothing else. Browser statistics would seem to back this up.

Siri (and voice recognition in general) just isn't that useful to most people. Although I liked DubDJ's suggestion for using it during the cold weather without taking your gloves off. I didn't have earphones with a mic at the time or else I probably would have done this.

seamus

The main problem with voice recognition is that it's public. And most of the time (work, commuting, etc) we are in public or at least in the company of others, when voice recognition wouldn't be appropriate to use, either because you look odd or because you don't want to be dictating an SMS with five people listening to you.
Thus, even when we're in private we're in the mode of manual input so we don't bother with voice recognition.

The main reason I don't use it when it's a good time, such as in the car, is because it's so unreliable. I ask it to dial a number and it will get it completely wrong, meaning I have to panic to cancel the call. Simple commands - "Read message", "Stop music", etc are great. But dictation and handling names are where Siri in particular falls flat.

Gorilla Rising

Piliger wrote: »

I find it bizarre that some many people don't use one of the most useful and fun apps on the gadget that they spend so much money on ....

You think it's useful and fun. I don't.

I don't see how it's fun to talk to a phone.

What's fun for me is the fact that I no longer require a scanner to email documents, access to a multitude of options for music and video, a good camera I always have at my disposal, instant upload to flickr and good navigation options.

All far more useful than Siri I think.

jpr57852

It's really easy to set up reminders. It's also cool for finding out weather and stuff quickly. I can't think of any more, but I do use it quite often.

shanered

I hear the scottish accent doesn't go sown too well with Siri

DuckSlice

i just swear at it to see what it responds! when i fell im not physically able to type into google what im looking for i might start using it!

marconi2.0

Ask Siri who let the dogs out rather funny

L'prof

I've tried it. It can be somewhat useful, but I find it a bit slow in general and not very helpful for things like txts. I turned it on there for a couple of minutes after reading this thread, but it's off again now.

Type 17

I find it great in the car - if you've told Siri "Mary is my wife", "Catherine is my Sister", etc, then you can hit the green button on a Parrot car kit and tell it "Call my wife" or "Call my sister" - great for minimising distraction.

I also find it good for setting alarms and setting up reminders but, despite getting better at recognising my voice, it remains rubbish for dictation or internet-based questions or searches.

Yakult

Using Siri for a few days now and find it useful. Also recognises my voice pretty well too.

squonk

I use it primarily for setting alarms when cooking. Otherwise I don't bother as even when setting reminders it just does't recognise what I'm saying exactly. It just takes more trouble to correct it then than it would have been manually setting the reminder in the first place.

guil

Could you always use Siri for launching any app. With iOS 7 it can launch any of them

DubDJ

guil wrote: »

Could you always use Siri for launching any app. With iOS 7 it can launch any of them

Yeah that was added in iOS 6.

guil

DubDJ wrote: »

Yeah that was added in iOS 6.

Yeah I jut tried it with a work colleagues 4s and sure enough it was there. I thought as lot of stuff like that was disabled for us

DubDJ

guil wrote: »

Yeah I jut tried it with a work colleagues 4s and sure enough it was there. I thought as lot of stuff like that was disabled for us

Actually yeah they did list a lot as unavailable to Ireland but in reality it wasnt. Maybe just not fully ready so they gave it to us but didn't list it as a feature.