With all the technological leaps in speech recognition, you'd think the speech synthesis would follow apace. Will we continue to make AI technology sound artificial on purpose?Speech synthesis has been around for decades. It was a feature on the original macs, actually.
Siri is "what is the closest chinese restaurant"I have literally the oldest Android phone ever made, the G1 running android 1.6. It has a "google voice search" that lets me search via voice. It works just fine. I can do voice search in the maps app and other places as well.
Buy the rumor, sell the news. Isn't a stock slide on the day of an announcement par for the course with Apple?The entire market was pretty bad today, but it underperformed google/Microsoft and the Nasdaq. I think people might have been expecting an iPhone 5.
Eat up Martha.
So the real question is: Why does Apple hate the free market?Apple charges its customers and gives them hardware. Google charges its customers and gives them eyeballs. It's a pretty simple system.
Well, it depends on what you mean by 'superior'. My expectation is that Siri will probably work better than anything on Android. But it will only run on an iPhone 4. If you have ANYTHING else, even an earlier iPhone, then an open source solution is going to be better, because there's at least a chance you could get it running on your phone.Right. Like the way lots of Android handset users have to void their warrantees to apply basic OS updates. That's open source at work.
Calling FredSorry, did I say something wrong? Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh god I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life.I just asked the free version of Siri, that was up on the App store until today (and I've been using it for exactly this for a while), "Where is the nearest Chinese restaurant."Okay first of all "Where is the nearest Chinese resturant" works fine for me in regular Google search on my PC.
It replied with the nearest Chinese restaurant. Siri is better than you believe if you've never used it.
No one actually believes that Android is somehow intrinsically superior because AOSP exists.It means a lot for people who actually do run cyanogen mod and stuff like that. Is there anything similar for iPhones?
Right. Like the way lots of Android handset users have to void their warrantees to apply basic OS updates. That's open source at work.That sounds like BS to me.
Delmoi, it's extremely well documented that most Android phones don't get more than a couple of OS updates. That's why the recent HTC security hole findings are such a big deal, because they seem very unlikely to ever be patched by HTC (because they're the ones who have to release the proper build of Android for each individual phone they sell, meaning that most hardware manufacturers simply don't).The statement was that people need to void their warrantees in order to apply updates. If they get "a few" updates it seems like will probably get updates while they're still under warranty, which is usually about a year. After a year there's no warranty to void, so it's not an issue.
If you don't understand the difference between asking your telephone a question in a conversational voice, on one hand, and typing shit into your PCOh sorry, let me try asking my 3 year old phone (released October 2008) in a 'conversational tone' and see what happens....
you are (1) missing the point in operatically grand fashionWhat is the point, exactly? Obviously it was a slightly clunky experience. It would have been better if if the phone had just told me itself rather then redirecting me to another site. But the question is how much this actually ads. If the language processing and knowledge base is really good, then it could be useful. If it's the ability to detect a couple of different query types and come up with good answers, then it will probably end up just a gimmick no one uses. It will be interesting to see.
There is no person that I love and trust as intimately as my iPhone.How much do you trust Apple's data centers?
In general: people read and write MUCH FASTER than using speech. This means in general I'm much faster for a lot of use scenarios using my fingers instead of my voice with Siri even if Siri were 100% reliable and I didn't need to do course correction.
Part of this is because all signs seem to point to the Android market being primarily people who would otherwise buy non-smartphones,What does that even mean? That there is a fixed set of people buying non-android phones, and android sales are coming from people who would by feature phones? Why does this matter, are you implying android users are somehow stupider or something? I don't really get it.
And then there's this tutorial showing how to install a then-eight-month-old revision of the OS on a fairly popular phone, and it looks like something you'd need a neck-beard and an Amiga to care aboutRight, because anyone who actually understands or cares how technology works is a "Neckbeard". Although it's fascinating how you've gone from (presumably) "People who buy android phones are all technophobes who would just be buying dumbphones" to "Android is only for Neckbeard computer nerds" I mean, which is it?
Siri, ask Chad and Brad to meet me in Starbucks for a Skinny Latte and Vegan snacks whilst we discuss sales figures on my MacBook Air and discuss our new line in products designed for people with disabilities and also coloured people, both groups being equal and respected partners in today's modern workplace. Afterwards, we can put all this work stuff aside and go for a bite to eat in that new BBQ place.Basically, Siri will allow us iPhone users to describe images like this to each other without actually speaking to each other.
Voice control is the Next Big Thing because no matter how elegant or beautiful a touchscreen UI display is, you still have to deal with a nearly infinite number of modal interactions with the screen and your fingers. Voice does away with all of that: say what you want and the robot deduces the context thus doing away with the modality of the interface.Voice control has been around for decades. It's never worked like that. Maybe Apple has figured out a revolutionary new way of doing it, but considering this is just some app store app they bought a year ago it seems unlikely.
I think i'd rather have something like Quicksilver with voice recognition. More structured and predictable, but still with a voice interface, and with all the ties into other, non-apple apps.Yeah a structured system that lets you say exactly what you mean would be better then something where the system tries to 'guess'. Look at Wolfram Alpha, for example. There are lots of times where I can get what I want by breaking up my query into simple parts and getting each one and then combining them -- if I could just do nested queries with a defined syntax it would probably work better.
It's called ice cream sandwich because there aren't many desserts that start with "I" and a bowl of plain ice cream looks the same as frozen yogurt (aka froyo).So? A frozen yogurt sandwich looks just like and ice cream sandwich, right? I don't have a problem with the name, I just think it's unintentionally hilarious. As far as being a code name, people use the android release name all the time when talking about it. You hear "Honeycomb" or "Honeycomb tablet" all the time. And honeycomb actually seems like a pretty cool name. Cupcake and Donut seems cute, but Ice Cream Sandwich just seems awkward goofy as hell.
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