Re:A verbal command line for the world
by Tichy on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @08:39AM
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"When is the next bus 19 coming?"
This might be where the problems will start to surface. I suspect at the moment Siri nows that some keywords likely refer to the calendar, and acts accordingly. If you add bus schedules, you create a big problem - "when" will make Siri search your calendar, which will not be the right database for bus schedules.
Then again this might be easily fixed by simply searching all connected services for "bus 19", but this too might reach a limit of feasibility with a growing number of databases.
Maybe Siri can learn that "bus" most likely refers to the public transport database. It's probably not completely stupid, but it still seems unclear how much it can really do.
Of course having such interfaces in the future would be cool, it is just not clear that Siri is the first step in that direction.
This might be where the problems will start to surface. I suspect at the moment Siri nows that some keywords likely refer to the calendar, and acts accordingly. If you add bus schedules, you create a big problem - "when" will make Siri search your calendar, which will not be the right database for bus schedules.
Then again this might be easily fixed by simply searching all connected services for "bus 19", but this too might reach a limit of feasibility with a growing number of databases.
Maybe Siri can learn that "bus" most likely refers to the public transport database. It's probably not completely stupid, but it still seems unclear how much it can really do.
Of course having such interfaces in the future would be cool, it is just not clear that Siri is the first step in that direction.