Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says

Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by michaelt on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:19AM (#35739469)

I assume some users are using new names on a daily basis. If you run a plumbing business, you may never have texted Abbas before - but if Abbas asks you for a quote, you'll be doing it today. Although I agree that people write 'and' far more often.

I assume they have some sort of special-case inclusion/handling for names in swipe dictionaries - it'd be embarrassing if your swipe keyboard recognised George and Donald as words, but didn't recognise Barrack.

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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by devilbunny on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:50PM (#35745477)

But I'd just punch in the letters individually just as I would for any unusual word. Misinterpreting "and" is like how Swype used to put in "née" for "me". Look, maybe I'm not as precise as I should be, but one is a word that people use a couple of times a year, and the other a couple of times an hour.

And "Barack" isn't the most common spelling. I wouldn't expect it to know "Fillmore" either.

Shouldn't frequency of use matter? Why go to all this effort and not put some kind of weighting on its word choices?

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