My IPhone doesn't understand me, does yours?
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March 19th, 2012
I just recently found this nifty feature on my IPhone 3G that you can tell it who you want to call. I know, I’ve had the phone for six months. I tell it to “call Jim” and it comes back with “calling Lisa”. It never understands me. Perhaps it doesn’t understand southern accents? Do you have this problem and how do I get my phone to understand me?
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Voice recognition systems that are adaptive need to be trained to understand each different user so they learn how you pronounce different words. Before you do that, you can basically forget the program understanding you.
And I do not have an Iphone, as I despise all things apple.
Have you tried your sultry voice?
If it were Siri, it would know you well enough to know you really wanted to call Lisa instead of Jim! :-)
I have it too sometimes, with my Android phone.
I have the idea that I have to pronounce my names or commands with an English accent (which is awkward if the names are Dutch).
By the way, it is awkward to begin with, calling commands in a phone, I think.
Therefore I only used the function to try it out and to be amazed.
Did you pronounce Jim as LEE-suh?
It’s not just you. The voice recognizition on iPhone before Siri is notoriously bad.
I told it to play a song by Santa Esmeralda and instead decided to call an ex at 2:00 am. I’m afraid to have contacts in my phone now.
My brother experienced an early bug with Siri:
“Siri, call me an ambulance!!!!!”
“Okay, Sliceswiththings’brother, from now on I will call you, ‘Anambulance.’”
“No no no!! That’s not what I meant!!!”
“Sorry, Anambulance, I do not understand. Please say a command.”
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