{"id":10486,"date":"2015-01-14T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10486"},"modified":"2015-01-17T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T16:16:16","slug":"siri-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/siri-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Siri Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2015\/01\/siri_improvements\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2015\/01\/siri_improvements\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve noticed over the past year that Siri is getting faster &mdash; both at parsing spoken input and returning results. I use iOS&rsquo;s voice-to-text dictation feature on a near-daily basis, and it&rsquo;s especially noticeable there.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mostly what I have noticed is that Siri is a lot more <em>reliable<\/em> than it used to be. I had stopped using it because for years it would essentially throw away what I&rsquo;d said. It was either unavailable (most of the time) or it didn&rsquo;t understand me properly (less often). Now I regularly use it to make reminders while driving, and it pretty much always works.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2015-01-17): <a href=\"http:\/\/log.maniacalrage.net\/post\/108212206579\/daring-fireball-michael-tsai-on-siri-reliability\">Garrett Murray<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/log.maniacalrage.net\/post\/108212206579\/daring-fireball-michael-tsai-on-siri-reliability\"><p>Watching Siri translate word-for-word as you speak give you the confidence to keep speaking and also makes it clear the moment she loses you. It completely changes the feature from &ldquo;interesting tech demo&rdquo; to &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll use this on a daily basis&rdquo;.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: I&rsquo;ve noticed over the past year that Siri is getting faster &mdash; both at parsing spoken input and returning results. I use iOS&rsquo;s voice-to-text dictation feature on a near-daily basis, and it&rsquo;s especially noticeable there. Mostly what I have noticed is that Siri is a lot more reliable than it used to be. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,904,85,247],"class_list":["post-10486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-8","tag-iphone","tag-siri"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10498,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486\/revisions\/10498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}