In a world that is increasingly noisy and crowded, it’s starting to seem like the most sensible and polite way to go. We can have conversations with real humans in total silence, under the radar of everyone around us. Most of us are decreasing our use of phones as a telephonic device in favor of texting or IMing. Brought to you by PiApps, the recurring reminder app can help you to track your tasks for days or weeks at a time. Voice recognition may be light years improved from its early days, but I can’t foresee a time where it’ll be convenient to converse with our gadgets like we’re addressing a person. One of the best reminder apps for Android users, Pi Reminder makes it easy to keep track of important things in your schedule. I’m in public where conversing with a gadget in exaggeratedly slow and articulate tones makes me look like a tool.

Nine times out of ten when I’m doing those things, I’m not alone in my home, safely away from other humans. That could arguably be faster than poking and typing these things the “old-fashioned” way. I know that Siri is not a search engine, that its utility lies more in automating phone actions like creating reminders or sending texts. When I broke up that question into smaller chunks, it was able to get that I was asking about Siri, but it never got close enough to make a successful search. But then, trying to create a Facebook status update asking people what phrases they’ve asked Siri that tripped her up became “can does if you was here you tell me some reasons that you can use to trick her up?” Wow, not remotely close. Perhaps someone can remind me what it is and I can fill it in. Anything I said while trying to stifle laughter was fine. (Im using Windows 7, and I dont even know if its compatible). Singing the first line of “Hello” by Lionel Ritchie took me to the YouTube video of the song. “Define da kine” totally worked and took me to appropriate search results. The things it was and wasn’t able to understand were absolutely baffling. So I spent the evening chatting with my inanimate hunk of semi-antiquated, Android-powered telephonic goodness. Here’s App Judgement’s version of the test (skip to 3:15 for the actual start of the test):Īfter watching this video, I was curious if your bog-standard voice recognition had improved to where it might be useful for the average person.

Now that Google is coming up with its own answer to the Siri feature, various blogs and technology sites are conducting tests comparing the two. Then there’s the one friend who swore off Siri forever, after it repeatedly tried to call her long-absent ex-boyfriend any time she tried to do anything, like some demented stalker: But the more I asked around, the more it seems like people got really excited about Siri for about three days and then gave up in frustration. (Unless, of course, I’m cursing at said inanimate object, which is totally reasonable, sane-person behavior.) Given the popularity of Siri, it seemed like maybe I was alone in this peculiarity. I’m not someone who has ever been tempted to use any sort of voice command on my phone I generally feel like a raging idiot verbally addressing an inanimate hunk of glass, metal and plastic when there is no response from another human on the other end. Software & Apps In the Battle of the Better Phone Voice Command, Do Consumers Even Care?

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