{"id":968,"date":"2011-11-19T11:11:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T11:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=968"},"modified":"2011-11-19T11:11:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T11:11:27","slug":"yes-siri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Yes Siri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s here and it works. Despite a notable bug that means you have to <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/3388900?start=15&amp;tstart=0\">disable\/restart<\/a> to get it to work, I&#8217;ve found it to be genuinely useful and usable. So far, I&#8217;ve used it to calculate areas, find facts, send emails, setup a reminder and do pretty similar things to those I use wolfram alpha for. Voice command curve-fitting could be very tedious though \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>No coincidence of course as Siri uses alpha at the backend for much of the &#8220;personal assistant&#8221; knowledge finding tasks I&#8217;ve described. There&#8217;s some cool tricks described here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iphonehacks.com\/2011\/11\/10-siri-and-wolfram-alpha-tricks.html\">iphonehacks.com<\/a>. The morse code feature is particularly geeky\/nerdy and I&#8217;m looking forward to trying it out with my colleague and ham radio enthusiast, <a href=\"http:\/\/theronans.com\/j0n\/\">John Ronan<\/a>, on Monday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-972\" title=\"siri_pic\" src=\"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/siri_pic.jpg\" alt=\"siri_pic\" width=\"328\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/siri_pic.jpg 328w, http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/siri_pic-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/siri_pic-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/>Overall, this is really cool technology that should give app developers some pause for thought when deciding how best to integrate it into their user interfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s here and it works. Despite a notable bug that means you have to disable\/restart to get it to work, I&#8217;ve found it to be genuinely useful and usable. So far, I&#8217;ve used it to calculate areas, find facts, send emails, setup a reminder and do pretty similar things to those I use wolfram alpha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}