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Re:Apple is struggling to become an AI powerhouse by spike021 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @03:58PM (#14516762)
I've been rather surprised how well Siri works.

Sometimes I'll be watching a baseball game in my living room with the volume pretty dang loud. The sound of the crowd in the background is almost like a static noise, and then you have the yellers, as well as the commentators speaking clearly, distinctly, and loudly. Then I use Siri to set a timer for something I'm cooking, or to "Call X person on speaker." and it picks up my voice without any hesitation or anything, and gets the words exactly right.

Definitely accurate.

Re:Apple is struggling to become an AI powerhouse by wvenable on Thursday June 08, 2017 @04:10PM (#14516841)
Siri is still frustratingly hard to activate though. Once activated, it does a pretty reasonable job for what I need it to do. Alexa is much easier to activate (but the echo has the hardware specifically for it).