Talking to Siri...
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So this happened the other day, and it got me wondering.
To those here with iDevices... How many of you include "please" (or the localized equivalent) when asking Siri to do stuff?
It happened like this: I said to Siri "Siri, please phone my mother.", and my girlfriend was quite stunned at the fact that I said please. I realized that I was doing this all the time prior to the incident, and it got me wondering how many people do that.
My girlfriend is of the opinion that Siri isn't a person, it's a thing. Without emotion, there's no need to be polite. I can't argue with that
I wonder if Apple has some kind of report showing polite vs meh vs rude language used
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girlfriend was quite stunned at the fact that I said please
Apparently you're nicer to your non-sapient electronic device than your girlfriend? Heck, I'd be shocked too!
Without emotion, there's no need to be polite
Not only that, but it has a higher chance of screwing with the semantics engine...
This is why I always give concise, brief, and specific instructions to my PDA.
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Apparently you're nicer to your non-sapient electronic device than your girlfriend? Heck, I'd be shocked too!
hehehehe, I guess I did leave myself open to something like that
I guess they would have some bit of code in the engine to ignore words like "please". It's not like Siri would refuse to do something unless I said please
Reminds me of that pic that's been floating around the net where the guy accidentally calls Siri Cortana, and Siri has a hissy fit
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guy accidentally calls Siri Cortana
I would do the reverse, but Cortana would merely open Bing.
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If I used the assistants, I'd probably start every sentence with "Would you kindly...?".
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Ever since I experienced that plot twist in BioShock, I started using it with real people
Never thought of doing it with Siri. Probably because she doesn't require coaxing
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Reminds me of that pic that's been floating around the net where the guy accidentally calls Siri Cortana, and Siri has a hissy fit
For those that haven't seen it:
Also:
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How many of you include "please" (or the localized equivalent) when asking Siri to do stuff?
I turned Siri off.
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Not only that, but it has a higher chance of screwing with the semantics engine...
Actually I would have guessed adding "please" would make it slightly easier for it to recognize it as a command.
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Reminds me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuGDhZorlQ0
Or that commercial where someone said "Xbox turn on" and it actually turned everyone's xbox on.
Or how playing videos with Windows 7's speech recognition on would start doing crazy things to your computer...
Some day, somewhere, someone is going to hack a company using a directional speaker pointed at someone's computer and some prerecorded voice commands... what a time to be alive.
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Or that commercial where someone said "Xbox turn on" and it actually turned everyone's xbox on
And the live stream where it funked shit up for ms
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Speaking of which, this seems like a good place for a poll I had in mind
Have you ever actually used Windows Speech Recognition (not Cortana) to control your computer? (not including using it for just testing or fun)
This thing:
[poll]
- Yes
- Nope
- E_NOT_FOUND or whatever
[/poll]
Because frankly, it's been included in every copy of the most popular desktop OS for 8 years and I've never seen anyone actually use it.
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Because frankly, it's been included in every copy of the most popular desktop OS for 8 years and I've never seen anyone actually use it.
Why would you? It's not made for you, me, or anyone with two working palms, duh.
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I decided to us my tablet's voice recognition to save the strain of trying to type on that teeny keyboard. Wanted to look up a minor actor in a movie I was watching on TV, and didn't realize how sensitive the VR was to extraneous voices.
So I ended up searching IMDb for Beach Blanket Bingo Super Beta Prostate Works.
It's nice to know that if I ever get laryngitis, Joe Theisman will be able to control my computer for me.
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More realistic response to the second cartoon.
Wait 30 seconds ... "Let me google that for you".
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By the time I'm shouting "OH KAY GOOGLE!!!!! HELLO?!?!", I no longer have patience for 'please'.
I literally only use one command most weeks: "Okay Google: play [album]". I use this while driving to switch music when I get stuck in traffic and there's stupid car commercials on. It seems dangerous to fiddle with the touchscreen then ;)
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It seems dangerous to fiddle with the touchscreen then
You don't have a button for that on your steering wheel?
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I have a button to switch to bluetooth media source, but not one to control my phone, no.
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I find OK GOOGLE very awkward to pronounce.
Why couldn't they have picked something nice and memorable, like "Cortana" or "Siri"? Fucking autistic nerds.
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I wonder if Apple has some kind of report showing polite vs meh vs rude language used
I know Google censors swear words, which is a to when I tell my watch to play a song with a curse word in the title.
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You can change it, now. It used to have to be (on my model and OS) "Ok Google Now", but I was able to change it. My husband changed it to something entirely different, so we don't confuse our phones.
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I have. It really isn't that bad, but you have to know its limits.
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"Ok Google Now"?? I always thought it was "Ok Google"...
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If your phone was old enough to have Google Now with voice activation before Google Glass became a thing ('OK Glass') and then Google Search itself followed suit ('Ok Google'), it was 'Ok Google Now', and you were stuck with that for a long time.
It was kind of a hot mess, honestly :)
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*likes the idea of changing it to "Heed my decree!"*
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which is a to when I tell my watch to play a song with a curse word in the title.
Well, stop listening to such depraved music then.
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But I want to hear f*******!
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But I want to hear f*******!
Then buy yourself a glass and lean against the wall at night.
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Surely there's enough porn on the internet for you?
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I didn't say f******...I said f*******.
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Hopefully, but I don't want to listen to it on my morning commute!
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You can change it, now. It used to have to be (on my model and OS) "Ok Google Now", but I was able to change it. My husband changed it to something entirely different, so we don't confuse our phones.
I couldn't change the phrase to "HEY SLAVE", as I wanted. Neither could I make the phrase work from the lock screen. I literally have to hold the home button and say "OK Google". This sucks.
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I looked into how I could use my car's much better voice recognition to activate my phone's voice recognition, but it involves a secret phone number, If This Then That, and telling the car to "Call my phone", so I decided fuck it, this is good enough.
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I couldn't change the phrase to "HEY SLAVE",
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I don't say please to Cortana, but she likes it crude and rude.
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Ok the comic is funny but the artist can't line up the word balloons with the characters and its pissing me off. It looks like two guys behind the cubicle walls are yelling at each other while the characters in the foreground do a silent pantomime.
How difficult is it to point the arrow of the word balloon towards the speaker? It's not like he was short on space.
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Have you ever actually used Windows Speech Recognition (not Cortana) to control your computer? (not including using it for just testing or fun)
I used it to write a few short stories, when I had trouble positioning myself in bed so I could type comfortably. The amount of editing afterward made it not really much of a time saver. I supposed if I practiced more I'd get better at it.
Note the editing required isn't always because it got word recognition WRONG, but because when you speak a sentence you say different shit than you would have typed. It's actually one of the reasons I try to type "naturally spoken" sentences here, I thought it would be kind of a cool style thing.
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*sniff* Zen was so much better.
Slave always actually followed their commands to the best of his ability. Zen, man. Now that was a computer. The fact that even after years of working together, he still had all these hidden "secret" directives nobody knew about and he'd occasionally just take over the ship and do his own shit for his own reason that nobody understood... man that was great. Or refuse an order for no apparent reason, and refuse to explain why. Or, that one time, just go completely silent for days and not respond to anybody for any reason.
I always felt it was a mistake for that show to actually reveal the builders of the Liberator. It should have just stayed "this mysterious ship abandoned for a mysterious reason commanded by a mysterious computer with mysterious orders and even Avon never quite figures out how to gain Admin priviledges". Kind of an anti-climax when they actually meet the people who built it.
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slightly easier for it to recognize it as a command.
Is there anything you use Siri for that doesn't involve giving it instruction?
Wait, no, stop. Engine says you should really answer that...
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actually used Windows Speech Recognition
I continued programming with it while eating during a crunch session. I got really good to pronunciation with food in my mouth...
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while eating during a crunch session.
More like a Cap'n Crunch session!
...yeah, I'll show myself out.
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My BlackBerry has a dummy phone entry which you get the car's system to dial. The car treats it like a normal phone call, the phone does its thing.
No idea how to do it with my iPhone because I almost never need to use any phone functions that the car doesn't already have a way to handle it itself.
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More like a Cap'n Crunch session!
Hmm. That would be an interesting experiment. Probably would result in a lot more "The the the"s being inserted.
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I use this while driving to switch music when I get stuck in traffic and there's stupid car commercials on. It seems dangerous to fiddle with the touchscreen then
“Stuck in traffic” ≠ “Standing still”?
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@Yamikuronue said:
I use this while driving to switch music when I get stuck in traffic and there's stupid car commercials on. It seems dangerous to fiddle with the touchscreen then
“Stuck in traffic” ≠ “Standing still”?
Yep.Nothing more annoying than being forced down to 10mph on a 70mph road.
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That's when I start screaming "OK GOOGLE, PLAY ALBUM 9.0 LIVE"
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"OK GOOGLE, PLAY ALBUM 9.0 LIVE"
Response I got: "Please download an app that can play music".