{"id":3848,"date":"2011-10-12T14:17:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T19:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2011-10-12T14:17:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T19:17:26","slug":"siri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/siri\/","title":{"rendered":"Siri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2011\/10\/iphone_4s\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2011\/10\/iphone_4s\"><p>The best sign I can think of regarding Siri&rsquo;s practical utility: after a week of using this test iPhone 4S, yesterday, while using my regular iPhone 4, without thinking I held down the home button to create a new reminder for myself, and when the old Voice Control interface appeared, my mind went blank for a few seconds while I pondered what went wrong. I missed Siri already.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Siri demos well, but these things never seem to live up to expectations. It&rsquo;s encouraging that reviewers seem to be finding it useful in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>The number one thing I&rsquo;d want to do with Siri is create new tasks in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/products\/omnifocus-iphone\">OmniFocus<\/a>. So far it only works with the built-in Apple apps, though.<\/p>\n<p>And, more broadly, it&rsquo;s heavily tied into the OS. On the Mac, there have been various third-party dictation and voice control products that could pretty much do what they wanted. They went way beyond the OS&rsquo;s built-in speech recognition features. On iOS, only Apple is allowed to try to make something with the scope of Siri. So you&rsquo;ve got to hope that Apple has the best voice recognition engine, the best AI, and a plan for future improvement and extensibility. You can&rsquo;t replace or adjust any of these components except by switching to different hardware and a different OS. Of course, it looks like Apple is currently in the lead, so to most this will not seem like a pressing concern.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: The best sign I can think of regarding Siri&rsquo;s practical utility: after a week of using this test iPhone 4S, yesterday, while using my regular iPhone 4, without thinking I held down the home button to create a new reminder for myself, and when the old Voice Control interface appeared, my mind went [&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":[],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","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=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3849,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions\/3849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}