Apple Hires Amazon's Head of Search for Siri Help

[Guest]

Apple apparently hired Bill Stasior to shape up Siri.

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[deadlockedworld]

Good. Siri is an idiot most of the time. Understands very few of my requests.

 

[willard]

You know, I may be the only one here, but I really don't care very much about natural language search. It's easy enough to use a few key phrases. For example, on Android phones (which have had voice command for years, Apple was certainly not the first to the party) you can say "Navigate to..." and give it a destination. Being able to talk to my phone like it's a person doesn't add much for me, because I can already control the phone just fine with my voice.

Natural language search is a very important topic of research, but it's simply not ready for primetime and the alternatives that have been on the market for years work just fine.

 

[Guest]

I like the fact that I can ask her to call me " my name" and she says " I did not find "my name" in my contacts" so I had to add myself to my contacts. pretty sad honestly.

 

[glasssplinter]

Crapple's innovation at its' finest. Hire everyone from other companies that could do it right, then claim you did it first.

 

[greghome]

[citation][nom]deadlockedworld[/nom]Good. Siri is an idiot most of the time. Understands very few of my requests.[/citation]
You should try Iris on Android, even less useful with every new update for some reason. :/

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]willard[/nom]You know, I may be the only one here, but I really don't care very much about natural language search. It's easy enough to use a few key phrases. For example, on Android phones (which have had voice command for years, Apple was certainly not the first to the party) you can say "Navigate to..." and give it a destination. Being able to talk to my phone like it's a person doesn't add much for me, because I can already control the phone just fine with my voice.Natural language search is a very important topic of research, but it's simply not ready for primetime and the alternatives that have been on the market for years work just fine.[/citation]

look at dragon... when you have a good mic, holy crap is that a wonderful program... if i had more ram i would keep it open 24/7... but i just dont have that kind of ram.

 

[freiheitner]

Oh that's a mistake. Amazon's search is terrible! Should have gotten NewEgg's search people.

 

[lamorpa]

People would even be happy if SIRI didn't have such piss poor speech recognition, let alone brain dead interpretation.

 

[bllue]

Let this gimmick die. No one even uses it

 

[Solandri]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]look at dragon... when you have a good mic, holy crap is that a wonderful program... if i had more ram i would keep it open 24/7... but i just dont have that kind of ram.[/citation]
The crazy thing is Dragon is half the app it could be. The original creators lost control of it and its patents through an investment fluke, basically resulting in them being prevented from continuing to improve it because they'd be violating their own patents (which were held by the company).

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/business/goldman-sachs-and-a-sale-gone-horribly-awry.html

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]Solandri[/nom]The crazy thing is Dragon is half the app it could be. The original creators lost control of it and its patents through an investment fluke, basically resulting in them being prevented from continuing to improve it because they'd be violating their own patents (which were held by the company).http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/ [...] -awry.html[/citation]

wow that was interesting to read. heres hoping they win.

sucks that the people who started it arent working on it anymore, they were great at what they did, wonder how much farther they would be along if they never sold it.