The iPhone 4S is faster, slicker and has a better camera than its predecessor, the iPhone 4. But Siri is the iPhone 4S’main news: a voice-recognition feature.
Siri can do so many things: from giving the weather to calling your best friend.
At the beginning, when Tim Cook announced the iPhone 4S capabilities few weeks ago, I was skeptical. Actually, the vocal-recognition was created five (or more) years ago and it was not a success. We had to pronounce words exactly like a robot for being understood, and from then there are no more improvements.
What a surprise with Siri! Even if in French the application was not perfect for now, it is a huge novelty in technological matters.
According to Peter Nowak, “The tool works well with features embedded in the iPhone, such as weather forecasts, calling up contacts, scheduling notifications and launching media. Indeed, after a few hours of playing with it, I may just be ready to say it’s more accurate than anything I’ve seen on Android.”
Siri is the actual spot in the digital world, a lot of website are talking about it and some very funny about what can we ask to Siri: Shit That Siri Says, http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/
It’s true that we can ask a lot of thing to Siri; to cancel or to plan meeting on our agenda, to ask the Joseph Kessel’s best books (Siri launches an Internet research). We can also
But for using Siri, we have to be connected to Internet… An important constraint for users and a proof for the limited thinking of Siri: it is more of a programmed robot than a thinking entity. It means a lot of workers are behind this and have to anticipate questions and answers!
For Peter Nowak, Siri comes from The military: “As the video here explains, Apple’s tool started as a DARPA project called Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes (CALO).”
What do you think about it?
Siri can do so many things: from giving the weather to calling your best friend.
At the beginning, when Tim Cook announced the iPhone 4S capabilities few weeks ago, I was skeptical. Actually, the vocal-recognition was created five (or more) years ago and it was not a success. We had to pronounce words exactly like a robot for being understood, and from then there are no more improvements.
What a surprise with Siri! Even if in French the application was not perfect for now, it is a huge novelty in technological matters.
According to Peter Nowak, “The tool works well with features embedded in the iPhone, such as weather forecasts, calling up contacts, scheduling notifications and launching media. Indeed, after a few hours of playing with it, I may just be ready to say it’s more accurate than anything I’ve seen on Android.”
Siri is the actual spot in the digital world, a lot of website are talking about it and some very funny about what can we ask to Siri: Shit That Siri Says, http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/
It’s true that we can ask a lot of thing to Siri; to cancel or to plan meeting on our agenda, to ask the Joseph Kessel’s best books (Siri launches an Internet research). We can also
But for using Siri, we have to be connected to Internet… An important constraint for users and a proof for the limited thinking of Siri: it is more of a programmed robot than a thinking entity. It means a lot of workers are behind this and have to anticipate questions and answers!
For Peter Nowak, Siri comes from The military: “As the video here explains, Apple’s tool started as a DARPA project called Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes (CALO).”
What do you think about it?
To my mind it is a revolutionary invention! It is very practical and useful and attracts customers who love new technologies!
RépondreSupprimerI agree with Anita! Such a great innovation!!! I want it!
RépondreSupprimerSiri works perfectly in English but need some improvements as to the French vesion
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