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Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac?
hype7 writes "The Harvard Business Review is running an article on Siri, the speech recognition technology inside the new iPhone. They make the case that Siri's use of artificial intelligence and speech recognition is going to change the way we interact with machines. From the article: 'The advantage of using speech over other interaction paradigms is that we have honed its use over thousands of years. It is entirely natural for us to talk to one another. Talking is one of the first things we learn how to do as children. It's second nature for us to ask a colleague or a friend a question and for them to answer the same way. Being able to talk to a phone like it's a personal assistant is something that people are going to get very used to, very quickly. It's a much more natural approach than using a mouse on a desktop. And I highly doubt the impact is going to stop at phones.'"
Not only as revolutionary... It's also just as magical!
The real issue with it is how much of a dork you look like talking to your phone.
Back in the olden days, talking into your phone was all you could do with it.
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Android speech-to-text actually works pretty well. I'm using it now to write this and I find bark bark shaddup I find that it bark bark shut up damnit bark bark don't make me come down there I find that bark bark okay that's it I'm coming down there argh crash thud bark bark bark bark bark bark
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"Can you honestly see this being used in an office environment?"
You're right. Nobody ever talks into phones in an office. /s
Android speech-to-text actually works pretty well. I'm using it now to write this and I find bark bark shaddup I find that it bark bark shut up damnit bark bark don't make me come down there I find that bark bark okay that's it I'm coming down there argh crash thud bark bark bark bark bark bark
Troubles with the wife?
Of course. Half the point of Apple's gadgets seem to be to draw attention to them all the fucking time. Case in point: the story above.
Totally!
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there is the major difference, natural speech. I think it'll really become useful once it all becomes standard, and is "always listening".
.. imagine if your cloud collected web services could always access and record everything that happens around you, without pushing a single button.. wouldnt that make facebooks and google plusses even more awesome .. i mean who needs browser tracking cookies if you have access to microphone ..
That would be awesome
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The real issue with it is how much of a dork you look like talking to your phone.
Back in the olden days, talking into your phone was all you could do with it.
Thats so 2007.
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Works fine as a speech to text engine, but doesn't infer what you want done from what you said. The real issue with it is how much of a dork you look like talking to your phone.
Yeah, it's hard to believe people actually talk into a phone...
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
The iPhone is the first Apple product that could be said to appeal to the mainstream, and it is already losing ground there.
If you are a hacker, want power, or are smart, Apple makes mediocre products.
(What do I mean? The command line, emacs, etc.)
Exactly. If only someone could merge a *nix box (with niceties like the command line and emacs and such) with good hardware and a nice design aesthetic.
That would be awesome.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
iWhoosh.