SIRI part 2

The thing that keeps me most excited about the new iPhone which will be in my hands in merely 2 days, is of course, Siri.

I've already written an insanely long, boring and scattered post about Siri, but I'm so hype for this feature that I wanted to write another post about it... and this is it.

As iPhones are being unintentionally delivered early to various people around the globe, the Siri assistant is being tested plenty, and for the most part, it seems to be a success.

Many reviewers have already come out and said that Siri is working pretty much like they thought it would. There are some limitations, and that is to be expected, but for the most part it seems that the consensus is Siri is a helpful feature with a lot of potential. If and when the Siri API's are opened up for third party developers, this could really blow up. (Although there would need to be a lot of tweaking before that happened.)

It also seems that Siri has a sense of humor and a little sass... when asked a questions like "Will you marry me?" Siri responds "My End User Agreement does not allow marriage." When asked "What is the meaning of life?" Siri simply states "42" (an homage to Hitchhiker's Guide...) There are many other examples already, but I can't wait to do my own questioning to Siri to test the boundaries of what it can do.

Obviously, it won't be able to do overly complicated requests, but for questions it is unsure of, it will do a Google search, or you can simply tell it "Do a Google search for succubus." and it will comply.

Another aspects of this whole voice recognition thing is the ability for speech-to-text anytime that a keyboard pops up. It seems that this works just about as well, if not better, than most available speech-to-text programs out there, and so this has the capability to be very useful. I can already picture myself using it to text while driving, something I hate. I will also use it to compose emails on the go, tweets, and more. It also understands punctuation, so you would say to it, "How is your day going question mark, I'm ready for beer and wings period" and it will appear as 'How is your day going? I'm ready for beer and wings.' It might get confused if your sentence is "Your spine is curved like a question mark. I'll examine it in 4th period study hall." but every device has it's faults.