Interesting video that we have known through the popular magazine Stuff. It turns out that the iPhone 4S has already reached the hands of some users in the United Kingdom, and how could it be, we have wanted to share the experience of messing with its functions through a sequence that has been published on YouTube. Logically, the operation of Siri, the exclusive voice control assistant of this terminal, is the one that has raised the most curiosity. And we have to say that, a priori, its staging is quite surprising.
We have already contacted you that Siri is an application that allows you to control many of the functions of the iPhone 4S through voice commands, a system developed by Nuance. Thus, with Siri we can do the usual hands-free operations, such as calling, canceling calls, sending messages, dictating texts, programming routes in the GPS navigator or opening web pages. So far, Siri behaves like other analog systems that we already know through Google.
So why is Siri surprising in the video that Stuff.tv has shown? Mainly, for two things. To begin with, Siri recognizes the voice without having to qualify the words too much. In other words, it perfectly understands our voice speaking normally (as long as we maintain a correct vocalization). Nuance has struggled over the years to include this subtle nuance in its speech recognition applications, and in fact, the most famous utilities it develops for desktop and mobile systems (the famous Dragon Dictation) have reached a very good in this regard.
But let's go to what really surprises in Siri. There is a downloadable game on iOS and Android called Akinator, in which a genie-looking character from the lamp tries to guess the identity of a famous character that you may be thinking of, so that through a few questions gives with the answer. That same feeling has been we Siri, when the user runs the iPhone 4S will ask your phone what the currency exchange ratio of 20 dollars in pounds or what is the distance from Earth to the Moon.
These are systems that compare voice commands (very precise in their understanding, as we can see in the video) with the multiple functions to which the telephone has access. In this case, for example, to know the change from dollars to pounds, or how many kilometers separate us from the moon, it was enough for Siri to connect to the Internet and search for the information in the vast data file on the network of networks. It is an apparently simple operation, but it finds that added value in the simplicity of operation and the speed of response.
However, we insist, it is a pity that Siri is not going to launch with initial support for Spanish, a language spoken by more than 500 million people around the world. Apple indicated that there would be an update in the future, so we only have to cross our fingers so that on October 28, the day it will go on sale in our country, they have already taught Siri the language of Quevedo. By the way, another point that has caught our attention is that for Siri to interpret the end of the orders, you have to press a virtual button on the touch screen, functioning as a punctuation mark.
