If Siri were better, would you use it more?

[SkydiverTilt]

Before Siri, can iOS 11 fix that little quark where is spell corrects a correctly spelled word with another word that has no business being in that sentence. Thanks!

 

[Speedygi]

Siri is quite good for daily use as it is, but I'm not going to be using voice unless I'm alone...

 

[iN8ter]

I tried asking it again too, but I changed the question to "What does Poison Ivy look like" and this time Siri got it right! She brought up several images of poison ivy (the plant). Clearly it depends on how we word our questions and requests to SIRI... and I am hopeful that SIRI will become more intuitive! #teamsiri

That's the problem though. She's much more picky for that stuff. I think this is where Google and Microsoft have advantages, because their Assistants are heavily tuned by their search engines, which rank responses algorithmically almost in real time. Google and Cortana can take almost any question format and retrieve the statistically strongest response because of this. They also are tuned to expect voice j put that is as varied as the text input to their search engines.

This is why they are much better at giving responses which don't require you to look at a screen - a big advantage for screenless devices like smart speakers and in-car technology.

Siri failed to deliver on Apple's promise of a "proactive" assistant, as well. I almost never use her on my phone or iMac.