Как правильно пишется сири

На этот вопрос на сервисе Quora ответил Адам Чейер (Adam Cheyer) — один из создателей Siri. 28 апреля 2010 года Siri Inc. была приобретена Apple Inc.

«Будучи стартапом, когда мы придумывали имя, мы хотели что-то лёгкое для запоминания, короткое для написания, удобное для произношения и не слишком распространённое человеческое имя. И мы хотели иметь возможность приобрести доменное имя за не очень большие деньги.

Когда имя Siri стало главным кандидатом, у каждого в команде появилось своё любимое объяснение его значения. Даг Киттлаус, наш норвежско-американский генеральный директор, однажды подумал об использовании Siri в качестве имени своему ребёнку, и ему понравилось норвежское значение — «красивая женщина, которая ведёт вас к победе».

Для меня Siri, что означает «тайна» на суахили, было отсылкой к нашей прошлой работе, когда мы начинали как stealth-company.com. Мне также понравился тот факт, что это была обратная сторона Iris, системы программного обеспечения, которую я помог создать в рамках проекта CALO, из которого вышла Siri. Кому-то понравилось сходство с SRI, исследовательским институтом, который руководил проектом CALO.

Мы знали, что Siri означает «красота» на сингальском языке, но упустили то, что Shiri означает «задница» на японском языке (это не одно и то же слово, но произношения близки).

И для нас стало большим сюрпризом, что Apple решила сохранить оригинальное имя Siri. У нас были и другие кандидаты, которые лидировали до последних недель.»





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Siri

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The Siri logo in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey (2021)

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Siri running on iOS

Developer(s) Apple
Initial release October 4, 2011; 11 years ago
Operating system iOS 5 onward, macOS Sierra onward, tvOS (all versions), watchOS (all versions), iPadOS
Platform
  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • iPod Touch
  • Mac
  • Apple TV
  • Apple Watch
  • HomePod
Available in
  • Arabic
  • Chinese: (Cantonese, Mandarin)
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Malay
  • Norwegian
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Turkish
Type Intelligent personal assistant
Website www.apple.com/siri/

Siri ( SEE-ree, SI-ree) is a virtual assistant that is part of Apple Inc.’s iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS, and audioOS operating systems.[1][2] It uses voice queries, gesture based control, focus-tracking and a natural-language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Internet services. With continued use, it adapts to users’ individual language usages, searches and preferences, returning individualized results.

Siri is a spin-off from a project developed by the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center. Its speech recognition engine was provided by Nuance Communications, and it uses advanced machine learning technologies to function. Its original American, British and Australian voice actors recorded their respective voices around 2005, unaware of the recordings’ eventual usage. Siri was released as an app for iOS in February 2010. Two months later, Apple acquired it and integrated into iPhone 4S at its release on 4 October, 2011, removing the separate app from the iOS App Store. Siri has since been an integral part of Apple’s products, having been adapted into other hardware devices including newer iPhone models, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, AirPods, Apple TV, and HomePod.

Siri supports a wide range of user commands, including performing phone actions, checking basic information, scheduling events and reminders, handling device settings, searching the Internet, navigating areas, finding information on entertainment, and is able to engage with iOS-integrated apps. With the release of iOS 10 in 2016, Apple opened up limited third-party access to Siri, including third-party messaging apps, as well as payments, ride-sharing, and Internet calling apps. With the release of iOS 11, Apple updated Siri’s voice and added support for follow-up questions, language translation, and additional third-party actions.

Siri’s original release on iPhone 4S in 2011 received mixed reviews. It received praise for its voice recognition and contextual knowledge of user information, including calendar appointments, but was criticized for requiring stiff user commands and having a lack of flexibility. It was also criticized for lacking information on certain nearby places, and for its inability to understand certain English accents. In 2016 and 2017, a number of media reports said that Siri lacked innovation, particularly against new competing voice assistants. The reports concerned Siri’s limited set of features, «bad» voice recognition, and undeveloped service integrations as causing trouble for Apple in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud-based services; the basis for the complaints reportedly due to stifled development, as caused by Apple’s prioritization of user privacy and executive power struggles within the company.[3] Its launch was also overshadowed by the death of Steve Jobs, which occurred one day after the launch.

Development[edit]

Siri is a spin-out from the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center, and is an offshoot of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA)-funded CALO project.[4] SRI International used the NABC Framework to define the value proposition for Siri.[5] It was co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, Tom Gruber, and UCLA alumnus Adam Cheyer.[4] Kittlaus named Siri after a co-worker in Norway; the name is a short form of the name Sigrid, from Old Norse Sigríðr, composed of the elements sigr «victory» and fríðr «beautiful».[6]

Siri’s speech recognition engine was provided by Nuance Communications, a speech technology company.[7] Neither Apple nor Nuance acknowledged this for years,[8][9] until Nuance CEO Paul Ricci confirmed it at a 2011 technology conference.[7] The speech recognition system uses sophisticated machine learning techniques, including convolutional neural networks and long short-term memory.[10]

The initial Siri prototype was implemented using the Active platform, a joint project between the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International and the Vrai Group at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The Active platform was the focus of a Ph.D. thesis led by Didier Guzzoni, who joined Siri as its chief scientist.[11]

Siri was acquired by Apple Inc. in April 2010 under the direction of Steve Jobs.[12] Apple’s first notion of a digital personal assistant appeared in a 1987 concept video, Knowledge Navigator.[13][14]

Voices[edit]

The original American voice of Siri was recorded in July 2005 by Susan Bennett, who was unaware it would eventually be used for the voice assistant.[15][16] A report from The Verge in September 2013 about voice actors, their work, and machine learning developments, hinted that Allison Dufty was the voice behind Siri,[17][18] but this was disproven when Dufty wrote on her website that she was «absolutely, positively not the voice of Siri.»[16] Citing growing pressure, Bennett revealed her role as Siri in October, and her claim was confirmed by Ed Primeau, an American audio forensics expert.[16] Apple has never acknowledged it.[16]

The original British male voice was provided by Jon Briggs, a former technology journalist and for 12 years narrated for the hit BBC quiz show The Weakest Link.[15] After discovering he was Siri’s voice by watching television, he first spoke about the role in November 2011. He acknowledged that the voice work was done «five or six years ago», and that he didn’t know how the recordings would be used.[19][20]

The original Australian voice was provided by Karen Jacobsen, a voice-over artist known in Australia as the GPS girl.[15][21]

In an interview between all three voice actors and The Guardian, Briggs said that «the original system was recorded for a US company called Scansoft, who were then bought by Nuance. Apple simply licensed it.»[21]

For iOS 11, Apple auditioned hundreds of candidates to find new female voices, then recorded several hours of speech, including different personalities and expressions, to build a new text-to-speech voice based on deep learning technology.[22] In February 2022, Apple added Quinn, its first gender-neutral voice as a fifth user option, to the iOS 15.4 developer release.[23]

Integration[edit]

Siri released as a stand-alone application for the iOS operating system in February 2010, and at the time, the developers were also intending to release Siri for Android and BlackBerry devices.[24] Two months later, Apple acquired Siri.[25][26][27] On October 4, 2011, Apple introduced the iPhone 4S with a beta version of Siri.[28][29] After the announcement, Apple removed the existing standalone Siri app from App Store.[30] TechCrunch wrote that, though the Siri app supports iPhone 4, its removal from App Store might also have had a financial aspect for the company, in providing an incentive for customers to upgrade devices.[30] Third-party developer Steven Troughton-Smith, however, managed to port Siri to iPhone 4, though without being able to communicate with Apple’s servers.[31] A few days later, Troughton-Smith, working with an anonymous person nicknamed «Chpwn», managed to fully hack Siri, enabling its full functionalities on iPhone 4 and iPod Touch devices.[32] Additionally, developers were also able to successfully create and distribute legal ports of Siri to any device capable of running iOS 5, though a proxy server was required for Apple server interaction.[33]

Over the years, Apple has expanded the line of officially supported products, including newer iPhone models,[34] as well as iPad support in June 2012,[35] iPod Touch support in September 2012,[36] Apple TV support, and the stand-alone Siri Remote, in September 2015,[37] Mac and AirPods support in September 2016,[38][39] and HomePod support in February 2018.[40][41]

Features and options[edit]

Apple offers a wide range of voice commands to interact with Siri, including, but not limited to:[42]

  • Phone and text actions, such as «Call Sarah», «Read my new messages», «Set the timer for 10 minutes», and «Send email to mom»
  • Check basic information, including «What’s the weather like today?» and «How many dollars are in a euro?»
  • Find basic facts, including «How many people live in France?» and «How tall is Mount Everest?». Siri usually uses Wikipedia to answer.[43]
  • Schedule events and reminders, including «Schedule a meeting» and «Remind me to …»
  • Handle device settings, such as «Take a picture», «Turn off Wi-Fi», and «Increase the brightness»
  • Search the Internet, including «Define …», «Find pictures of …», and «Search Twitter for …»
  • Navigation, including «Take me home», «What’s traffic like on the way home?», and «Find driving directions to …»
  • Translate words and phrases from English to a few languages, such as «How do I say where is the nearest hotel in French?»
  • Entertainment, such as «What basketball games are on today?», «What are some movies playing near me?», and «What’s the synopsis of …?»
  • Engage with iOS-integrated apps, including «Pause Apple Music» and «Like this song»
  • Handle payments through Apple Pay, such as «Apple Pay 25 dollars to Mike for concert tickets» or «Send 41 dollars to Ivana.»

Siri also offers numerous pre-programmed responses to amusing questions.[44] Such questions include «What is the meaning of life?» to which Siri may reply «All evidence to date suggests it’s chocolate»; «Why am I here?», to which it may reply «I don’t know. Frankly, I’ve wondered that myself»; and «Will you marry me?», to which it may respond with «My End User Licensing Agreement does not cover marriage. My apologies.»[45][46]

Initially limited to female voices, Apple announced in June 2013 that Siri would feature a gender option, adding a male voice counterpart.[47]

In September 2014, Apple added the ability for users to speak «Hey Siri» to enable the assistant without the requirement of physically handling the device.[48]

In September 2015, the «Hey Siri» feature was updated to include individualized voice recognition, a presumed effort to prevent non-owner activation.[49][50]

With the announcement of iOS 10 in June 2016, Apple opened up limited third-party developer access to Siri through a dedicated application programming interface (API). The API restricts usage of Siri to engaging with third-party messaging apps, payment apps, ride-sharing apps, and Internet calling apps.[51][52]

In iOS 11, Siri is able to handle follow-up questions, supports language translation, and opens up to more third-party actions, including task management.[53][54] Additionally, users are able to type to Siri,[55] and a new, privacy-minded «on-device learning» technique improves Siri’s suggestions by privately analyzing personal usage of different iOS applications.[56]

Reception[edit]

Siri received mixed reviews during its beta release as an integrated part of iPhone 4S in October 2011.

MG Siegler of TechCrunch wrote that Siri was «great,» praising the potential for Siri after losing the beta tag:

The amount of times Siri hasn’t been able to understand and execute my request is astonishingly low. … Just imagine what will happen when Apple partners with other services to expand Siri further. And imagine when they have an API that any developer can use. This really could alter the mobile landscape.[57]

Writing for The New York Times, David Pogue also praised Siri’s language understanding and ability to understand context:

[Siri] thinks for a few seconds, displays a beautifully formatted response and speaks in a calm female voice. … It’s mind-blowing how inexact your utterances can be. Siri understands everything from, ‘What’s the weather going to be like in Tucson this weekend?’ to ‘Will I need an umbrella tonight?’ … Once, I tried saying, ‘Make an appointment with Patrick for Thursday at 3.’ Siri responded, ‘Note that you already have an all-day appointment about «Boston Trip» for this Thursday. Shall I schedule this anyway?’ Unbelievable.[58]

Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica wrote that Apple’s claims of what Siri could do were bold, and the early demos «even bolder»:

Though Siri shows real potential, these kinds of high expectations are bound to be disappointed. … Apple makes clear that the product is still in beta—an appropriate label, in our opinion.[59]

While praising its ability to «decipher our casual language» and deliver «very specific and accurate result,» sometimes even providing additional information, Cheng noted and criticized its restrictions, particularly when the language moved away from «stiffer commands» into more human interactions. One example included the phrase «Send a text to Jason, Clint, Sam, and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud,» which Siri interpreted as sending a message to Jason only, containing the text «Clint Sam and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud.» She also noted a lack of proper editability, as saying «Edit message to say: We’re at Silver Cloud and you should come find us,» generated «Clint Sam and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud to say we’re at Silver Cloud and you should come find us.»[59]

Google’s executive chairman and former chief, Eric Schmidt, conceded that Siri could pose a competitive threat to the company’s core search business.[60]

Siri was criticized by pro-abortion rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and NARAL Pro-Choice America, after users found that Siri could not provide information about the location of birth control or abortion providers nearby, sometimes directing users to crisis pregnancy centers instead.[61][62][63]

Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple, told The New York Times:

Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of information, and while it can find a lot, it doesn’t always find what you want. … These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better, and we will in the coming weeks.[64]

In January 2016, Fast Company reported that, in then-recent months, Siri had begun to confuse the word «abortion» with «adoption», citing «health experts» who stated that the situation had «gotten worse.» However, at the time of Fast Companys report, the situation had changed slightly, with Siri offering «a more comprehensive list of Planned Parenthood facilities», although «Adoption clinics continue to pop up, but near the bottom of the list.»[65][66]

Siri has also not been well received by some English speakers with distinctive accents, including Scottish[67] and Americans from Boston or the South.[68]

In March 2012, Frank M. Fazio filed a class action lawsuit against Apple on behalf of the people who bought iPhone 4S and felt misled about the capabilities of Siri, alleging its failing to function as depicted in Apple’s Siri commercials. Fazio filed the lawsuit in California and claimed that the iPhone 4S was merely a «more expensive iPhone 4» if Siri fails to function as advertised.[69][70] On July 22, 2013, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in San Francisco dismissed the suit but said the plaintiffs could amend at a later time. The reason given for dismissal was that plaintiffs did not sufficiently document enough misrepresentations by Apple for the trial to proceed.[71]

Perceived lack of innovation[edit]

In June 2016, The Verges Sean O’Kane wrote about the then-upcoming major iOS 10 updates, with a headline stating «Siri’s big upgrades won’t matter if it can’t understand its users»:

What Apple didn’t talk about was solving Siri’s biggest, most basic flaws: it’s still not very good at voice recognition, and when it gets it right, the results are often clunky. And these problems look even worse when you consider that Apple now has full-fledged competitors in this space: Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google’s Assistant.[72]

Also writing for The Verge, Walt Mossberg had previously questioned Apple’s efforts in cloud-based services, writing:[73]

 perhaps the biggest disappointment among Apple’s cloud-based services is the one it needs most today, right now: Siri. Before Apple bought it, Siri was on the road to being a robust digital assistant that could do many things, and integrate with many services—even though it was being built by a startup with limited funds and people. After Apple bought Siri, the giant company seemed to treat it as a backwater, restricting it to doing only a few, slowly increasing number of tasks, like telling you the weather, sports scores, movie and restaurant listings, and controlling the device’s functions. Its unhappy founders have left Apple to build a new AI service called Viv. And, on too many occasions, Siri either gets things wrong, doesn’t know the answer, or can’t verbalize it. Instead, it shows you a web search result, even when you’re not in a position to read it.

In October 2016, Bloomberg reported that Apple had plans to unify the teams behind its various cloud-based services, including a single campus and reorganized cloud computing resources aimed at improving the processing of Siri’s queries,[74] although another report from The Verge, in June 2017, once again called Siri’s voice recognition «bad.»[75]

In June 2017, The Wall Street Journal published an extensive report on the lack of innovation with Siri following competitors’ advancement in the field of voice assistants. Noting that Apple workers’ anxiety levels «went up a notch» on the announcement of Amazon’s Alexa, the Journal wrote: «Today, Apple is playing catch-up in a product category it invented, increasing worries about whether the technology giant has lost some of its innovation edge.» The report gave the primary causes being Apple’s prioritization of user privacy, including randomly-tagged six-month Siri searches, whereas Google and Amazon keep data until actively discarded by the user,[clarification needed] and executive power struggles within Apple. Apple did not comment on the report, while Eddy Cue said: «Apple often uses generic data rather than user data to train its systems and has the ability to improve Siri’s performance for individual users with information kept on their iPhones.»[3][76]

Privacy controversy[edit]

In July 2019, a then-anonymous whistleblower and former Apple contractor Thomas le Bonniec said that Siri regularly records some of its users’ conversations even when it was not activated. The recordings are sent to Apple contractors grading Siri’s responses on a variety of factors. Among other things, the contractors regularly hear private conversations between doctors and patients, business and drug deals, and couples having sex. Apple did not disclose this in its privacy documentation and did not provide a way for its users to opt in or out.[77]

In August 2019, Apple apologized, halted the Siri grading program, and said that it plans to resume «later this fall when software updates are released to [its] users».[78] iOS 13.2, released in October 2019, introduced the ability to opt out of the grading program and to delete all the voice recordings that Apple has stored on its servers.[79]

In May 2020, Thomas le Bonniec revealed himself as the whistleblower and sent a letter to European data protection regulators, calling on them to investigate Apple’s «past and present» use of Siri recordings. He argued that, even though Apple has apologized, it has never faced the consequences for its years-long grading program.[80][81]

Swearing[edit]

The iOS version of Siri ships with a vulgar content filter; however, it is disabled by default and must be enabled by the user manually.[82] Therefore, if Siri can be triggered into cursing, broadcasting discriminatory content, and so on, the actions will most likely be carried out. Over its history, multiple methods and techniques have been used to trigger Siri into swearing. The language-filter is not perfect and can still be bypassed.[citation needed]

In 2018, Ars Technica reported a new glitch that could be exploited by a user requesting the definition of «mother» be read out loud. Siri would issue a response and ask the user if they would like to hear the next definition; when the user replies with «yes,» Siri would mention «mother» as being short for «motherfucker.»[83] This resulted in multiple YouTube videos featuring the responses and/or how to trigger them. Apple fixed the issue silently, although it is unconfirmed if the videos specifically brought it to their attention. The content is picked up from third-party sources such as the Oxford English Dictionary and not a supplied message from the corporation.[84] It is unknown whether this glitch was exploited with the vulgar content filter enabled.

In popular culture[edit]

Siri provided the voice of ‘Puter in The Lego Batman Movie.[85]

See also[edit]

  • List of speech recognition software

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Further reading[edit]

  • For a detailed article on the history of the organizations and technologies preceding the development of Siri, and their influence upon that application, see Bianca Bosker, 2013, «Siri Rising: The Inside Story Of Siri’s Origins (And Why She Could Overshadow The iPhone)», in The Huffington Post (online), January 22, 2013 (updated January 24, 2013), accessed November 2, 2014.

External links[edit]

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Siri’s supported languages
  • SiriKit, Siri for developers
  • «The Story of Siri, by its founder Adam Cheyer». wit.ai. December 18, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2015.

Siri

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The Siri logo in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey (2021)

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Siri running on iOS

Developer(s) Apple
Initial release October 4, 2011; 11 years ago
Operating system iOS 5 onward, macOS Sierra onward, tvOS (all versions), watchOS (all versions), iPadOS
Platform
  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • iPod Touch
  • Mac
  • Apple TV
  • Apple Watch
  • HomePod
Available in
  • Arabic
  • Chinese: (Cantonese, Mandarin)
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Malay
  • Norwegian
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Turkish
Type Intelligent personal assistant
Website www.apple.com/siri/

Siri ( SEE-ree, SI-ree) is a virtual assistant that is part of Apple Inc.’s iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS, and audioOS operating systems.[1][2] It uses voice queries, gesture based control, focus-tracking and a natural-language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Internet services. With continued use, it adapts to users’ individual language usages, searches and preferences, returning individualized results.

Siri is a spin-off from a project developed by the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center. Its speech recognition engine was provided by Nuance Communications, and it uses advanced machine learning technologies to function. Its original American, British and Australian voice actors recorded their respective voices around 2005, unaware of the recordings’ eventual usage. Siri was released as an app for iOS in February 2010. Two months later, Apple acquired it and integrated into iPhone 4S at its release on 4 October, 2011, removing the separate app from the iOS App Store. Siri has since been an integral part of Apple’s products, having been adapted into other hardware devices including newer iPhone models, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, AirPods, Apple TV, and HomePod.

Siri supports a wide range of user commands, including performing phone actions, checking basic information, scheduling events and reminders, handling device settings, searching the Internet, navigating areas, finding information on entertainment, and is able to engage with iOS-integrated apps. With the release of iOS 10 in 2016, Apple opened up limited third-party access to Siri, including third-party messaging apps, as well as payments, ride-sharing, and Internet calling apps. With the release of iOS 11, Apple updated Siri’s voice and added support for follow-up questions, language translation, and additional third-party actions.

Siri’s original release on iPhone 4S in 2011 received mixed reviews. It received praise for its voice recognition and contextual knowledge of user information, including calendar appointments, but was criticized for requiring stiff user commands and having a lack of flexibility. It was also criticized for lacking information on certain nearby places, and for its inability to understand certain English accents. In 2016 and 2017, a number of media reports said that Siri lacked innovation, particularly against new competing voice assistants. The reports concerned Siri’s limited set of features, «bad» voice recognition, and undeveloped service integrations as causing trouble for Apple in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud-based services; the basis for the complaints reportedly due to stifled development, as caused by Apple’s prioritization of user privacy and executive power struggles within the company.[3] Its launch was also overshadowed by the death of Steve Jobs, which occurred one day after the launch.

Development[edit]

Siri is a spin-out from the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center, and is an offshoot of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA)-funded CALO project.[4] SRI International used the NABC Framework to define the value proposition for Siri.[5] It was co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, Tom Gruber, and UCLA alumnus Adam Cheyer.[4] Kittlaus named Siri after a co-worker in Norway; the name is a short form of the name Sigrid, from Old Norse Sigríðr, composed of the elements sigr «victory» and fríðr «beautiful».[6]

Siri’s speech recognition engine was provided by Nuance Communications, a speech technology company.[7] Neither Apple nor Nuance acknowledged this for years,[8][9] until Nuance CEO Paul Ricci confirmed it at a 2011 technology conference.[7] The speech recognition system uses sophisticated machine learning techniques, including convolutional neural networks and long short-term memory.[10]

The initial Siri prototype was implemented using the Active platform, a joint project between the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International and the Vrai Group at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The Active platform was the focus of a Ph.D. thesis led by Didier Guzzoni, who joined Siri as its chief scientist.[11]

Siri was acquired by Apple Inc. in April 2010 under the direction of Steve Jobs.[12] Apple’s first notion of a digital personal assistant appeared in a 1987 concept video, Knowledge Navigator.[13][14]

Voices[edit]

The original American voice of Siri was recorded in July 2005 by Susan Bennett, who was unaware it would eventually be used for the voice assistant.[15][16] A report from The Verge in September 2013 about voice actors, their work, and machine learning developments, hinted that Allison Dufty was the voice behind Siri,[17][18] but this was disproven when Dufty wrote on her website that she was «absolutely, positively not the voice of Siri.»[16] Citing growing pressure, Bennett revealed her role as Siri in October, and her claim was confirmed by Ed Primeau, an American audio forensics expert.[16] Apple has never acknowledged it.[16]

The original British male voice was provided by Jon Briggs, a former technology journalist and for 12 years narrated for the hit BBC quiz show The Weakest Link.[15] After discovering he was Siri’s voice by watching television, he first spoke about the role in November 2011. He acknowledged that the voice work was done «five or six years ago», and that he didn’t know how the recordings would be used.[19][20]

The original Australian voice was provided by Karen Jacobsen, a voice-over artist known in Australia as the GPS girl.[15][21]

In an interview between all three voice actors and The Guardian, Briggs said that «the original system was recorded for a US company called Scansoft, who were then bought by Nuance. Apple simply licensed it.»[21]

For iOS 11, Apple auditioned hundreds of candidates to find new female voices, then recorded several hours of speech, including different personalities and expressions, to build a new text-to-speech voice based on deep learning technology.[22] In February 2022, Apple added Quinn, its first gender-neutral voice as a fifth user option, to the iOS 15.4 developer release.[23]

Integration[edit]

Siri released as a stand-alone application for the iOS operating system in February 2010, and at the time, the developers were also intending to release Siri for Android and BlackBerry devices.[24] Two months later, Apple acquired Siri.[25][26][27] On October 4, 2011, Apple introduced the iPhone 4S with a beta version of Siri.[28][29] After the announcement, Apple removed the existing standalone Siri app from App Store.[30] TechCrunch wrote that, though the Siri app supports iPhone 4, its removal from App Store might also have had a financial aspect for the company, in providing an incentive for customers to upgrade devices.[30] Third-party developer Steven Troughton-Smith, however, managed to port Siri to iPhone 4, though without being able to communicate with Apple’s servers.[31] A few days later, Troughton-Smith, working with an anonymous person nicknamed «Chpwn», managed to fully hack Siri, enabling its full functionalities on iPhone 4 and iPod Touch devices.[32] Additionally, developers were also able to successfully create and distribute legal ports of Siri to any device capable of running iOS 5, though a proxy server was required for Apple server interaction.[33]

Over the years, Apple has expanded the line of officially supported products, including newer iPhone models,[34] as well as iPad support in June 2012,[35] iPod Touch support in September 2012,[36] Apple TV support, and the stand-alone Siri Remote, in September 2015,[37] Mac and AirPods support in September 2016,[38][39] and HomePod support in February 2018.[40][41]

Features and options[edit]

Apple offers a wide range of voice commands to interact with Siri, including, but not limited to:[42]

  • Phone and text actions, such as «Call Sarah», «Read my new messages», «Set the timer for 10 minutes», and «Send email to mom»
  • Check basic information, including «What’s the weather like today?» and «How many dollars are in a euro?»
  • Find basic facts, including «How many people live in France?» and «How tall is Mount Everest?». Siri usually uses Wikipedia to answer.[43]
  • Schedule events and reminders, including «Schedule a meeting» and «Remind me to …»
  • Handle device settings, such as «Take a picture», «Turn off Wi-Fi», and «Increase the brightness»
  • Search the Internet, including «Define …», «Find pictures of …», and «Search Twitter for …»
  • Navigation, including «Take me home», «What’s traffic like on the way home?», and «Find driving directions to …»
  • Translate words and phrases from English to a few languages, such as «How do I say where is the nearest hotel in French?»
  • Entertainment, such as «What basketball games are on today?», «What are some movies playing near me?», and «What’s the synopsis of …?»
  • Engage with iOS-integrated apps, including «Pause Apple Music» and «Like this song»
  • Handle payments through Apple Pay, such as «Apple Pay 25 dollars to Mike for concert tickets» or «Send 41 dollars to Ivana.»

Siri also offers numerous pre-programmed responses to amusing questions.[44] Such questions include «What is the meaning of life?» to which Siri may reply «All evidence to date suggests it’s chocolate»; «Why am I here?», to which it may reply «I don’t know. Frankly, I’ve wondered that myself»; and «Will you marry me?», to which it may respond with «My End User Licensing Agreement does not cover marriage. My apologies.»[45][46]

Initially limited to female voices, Apple announced in June 2013 that Siri would feature a gender option, adding a male voice counterpart.[47]

In September 2014, Apple added the ability for users to speak «Hey Siri» to enable the assistant without the requirement of physically handling the device.[48]

In September 2015, the «Hey Siri» feature was updated to include individualized voice recognition, a presumed effort to prevent non-owner activation.[49][50]

With the announcement of iOS 10 in June 2016, Apple opened up limited third-party developer access to Siri through a dedicated application programming interface (API). The API restricts usage of Siri to engaging with third-party messaging apps, payment apps, ride-sharing apps, and Internet calling apps.[51][52]

In iOS 11, Siri is able to handle follow-up questions, supports language translation, and opens up to more third-party actions, including task management.[53][54] Additionally, users are able to type to Siri,[55] and a new, privacy-minded «on-device learning» technique improves Siri’s suggestions by privately analyzing personal usage of different iOS applications.[56]

Reception[edit]

Siri received mixed reviews during its beta release as an integrated part of iPhone 4S in October 2011.

MG Siegler of TechCrunch wrote that Siri was «great,» praising the potential for Siri after losing the beta tag:

The amount of times Siri hasn’t been able to understand and execute my request is astonishingly low. … Just imagine what will happen when Apple partners with other services to expand Siri further. And imagine when they have an API that any developer can use. This really could alter the mobile landscape.[57]

Writing for The New York Times, David Pogue also praised Siri’s language understanding and ability to understand context:

[Siri] thinks for a few seconds, displays a beautifully formatted response and speaks in a calm female voice. … It’s mind-blowing how inexact your utterances can be. Siri understands everything from, ‘What’s the weather going to be like in Tucson this weekend?’ to ‘Will I need an umbrella tonight?’ … Once, I tried saying, ‘Make an appointment with Patrick for Thursday at 3.’ Siri responded, ‘Note that you already have an all-day appointment about «Boston Trip» for this Thursday. Shall I schedule this anyway?’ Unbelievable.[58]

Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica wrote that Apple’s claims of what Siri could do were bold, and the early demos «even bolder»:

Though Siri shows real potential, these kinds of high expectations are bound to be disappointed. … Apple makes clear that the product is still in beta—an appropriate label, in our opinion.[59]

While praising its ability to «decipher our casual language» and deliver «very specific and accurate result,» sometimes even providing additional information, Cheng noted and criticized its restrictions, particularly when the language moved away from «stiffer commands» into more human interactions. One example included the phrase «Send a text to Jason, Clint, Sam, and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud,» which Siri interpreted as sending a message to Jason only, containing the text «Clint Sam and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud.» She also noted a lack of proper editability, as saying «Edit message to say: We’re at Silver Cloud and you should come find us,» generated «Clint Sam and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud to say we’re at Silver Cloud and you should come find us.»[59]

Google’s executive chairman and former chief, Eric Schmidt, conceded that Siri could pose a competitive threat to the company’s core search business.[60]

Siri was criticized by pro-abortion rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and NARAL Pro-Choice America, after users found that Siri could not provide information about the location of birth control or abortion providers nearby, sometimes directing users to crisis pregnancy centers instead.[61][62][63]

Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple, told The New York Times:

Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of information, and while it can find a lot, it doesn’t always find what you want. … These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better, and we will in the coming weeks.[64]

In January 2016, Fast Company reported that, in then-recent months, Siri had begun to confuse the word «abortion» with «adoption», citing «health experts» who stated that the situation had «gotten worse.» However, at the time of Fast Companys report, the situation had changed slightly, with Siri offering «a more comprehensive list of Planned Parenthood facilities», although «Adoption clinics continue to pop up, but near the bottom of the list.»[65][66]

Siri has also not been well received by some English speakers with distinctive accents, including Scottish[67] and Americans from Boston or the South.[68]

In March 2012, Frank M. Fazio filed a class action lawsuit against Apple on behalf of the people who bought iPhone 4S and felt misled about the capabilities of Siri, alleging its failing to function as depicted in Apple’s Siri commercials. Fazio filed the lawsuit in California and claimed that the iPhone 4S was merely a «more expensive iPhone 4» if Siri fails to function as advertised.[69][70] On July 22, 2013, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in San Francisco dismissed the suit but said the plaintiffs could amend at a later time. The reason given for dismissal was that plaintiffs did not sufficiently document enough misrepresentations by Apple for the trial to proceed.[71]

Perceived lack of innovation[edit]

In June 2016, The Verges Sean O’Kane wrote about the then-upcoming major iOS 10 updates, with a headline stating «Siri’s big upgrades won’t matter if it can’t understand its users»:

What Apple didn’t talk about was solving Siri’s biggest, most basic flaws: it’s still not very good at voice recognition, and when it gets it right, the results are often clunky. And these problems look even worse when you consider that Apple now has full-fledged competitors in this space: Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google’s Assistant.[72]

Also writing for The Verge, Walt Mossberg had previously questioned Apple’s efforts in cloud-based services, writing:[73]

 perhaps the biggest disappointment among Apple’s cloud-based services is the one it needs most today, right now: Siri. Before Apple bought it, Siri was on the road to being a robust digital assistant that could do many things, and integrate with many services—even though it was being built by a startup with limited funds and people. After Apple bought Siri, the giant company seemed to treat it as a backwater, restricting it to doing only a few, slowly increasing number of tasks, like telling you the weather, sports scores, movie and restaurant listings, and controlling the device’s functions. Its unhappy founders have left Apple to build a new AI service called Viv. And, on too many occasions, Siri either gets things wrong, doesn’t know the answer, or can’t verbalize it. Instead, it shows you a web search result, even when you’re not in a position to read it.

In October 2016, Bloomberg reported that Apple had plans to unify the teams behind its various cloud-based services, including a single campus and reorganized cloud computing resources aimed at improving the processing of Siri’s queries,[74] although another report from The Verge, in June 2017, once again called Siri’s voice recognition «bad.»[75]

In June 2017, The Wall Street Journal published an extensive report on the lack of innovation with Siri following competitors’ advancement in the field of voice assistants. Noting that Apple workers’ anxiety levels «went up a notch» on the announcement of Amazon’s Alexa, the Journal wrote: «Today, Apple is playing catch-up in a product category it invented, increasing worries about whether the technology giant has lost some of its innovation edge.» The report gave the primary causes being Apple’s prioritization of user privacy, including randomly-tagged six-month Siri searches, whereas Google and Amazon keep data until actively discarded by the user,[clarification needed] and executive power struggles within Apple. Apple did not comment on the report, while Eddy Cue said: «Apple often uses generic data rather than user data to train its systems and has the ability to improve Siri’s performance for individual users with information kept on their iPhones.»[3][76]

Privacy controversy[edit]

In July 2019, a then-anonymous whistleblower and former Apple contractor Thomas le Bonniec said that Siri regularly records some of its users’ conversations even when it was not activated. The recordings are sent to Apple contractors grading Siri’s responses on a variety of factors. Among other things, the contractors regularly hear private conversations between doctors and patients, business and drug deals, and couples having sex. Apple did not disclose this in its privacy documentation and did not provide a way for its users to opt in or out.[77]

In August 2019, Apple apologized, halted the Siri grading program, and said that it plans to resume «later this fall when software updates are released to [its] users».[78] iOS 13.2, released in October 2019, introduced the ability to opt out of the grading program and to delete all the voice recordings that Apple has stored on its servers.[79]

In May 2020, Thomas le Bonniec revealed himself as the whistleblower and sent a letter to European data protection regulators, calling on them to investigate Apple’s «past and present» use of Siri recordings. He argued that, even though Apple has apologized, it has never faced the consequences for its years-long grading program.[80][81]

Swearing[edit]

The iOS version of Siri ships with a vulgar content filter; however, it is disabled by default and must be enabled by the user manually.[82] Therefore, if Siri can be triggered into cursing, broadcasting discriminatory content, and so on, the actions will most likely be carried out. Over its history, multiple methods and techniques have been used to trigger Siri into swearing. The language-filter is not perfect and can still be bypassed.[citation needed]

In 2018, Ars Technica reported a new glitch that could be exploited by a user requesting the definition of «mother» be read out loud. Siri would issue a response and ask the user if they would like to hear the next definition; when the user replies with «yes,» Siri would mention «mother» as being short for «motherfucker.»[83] This resulted in multiple YouTube videos featuring the responses and/or how to trigger them. Apple fixed the issue silently, although it is unconfirmed if the videos specifically brought it to their attention. The content is picked up from third-party sources such as the Oxford English Dictionary and not a supplied message from the corporation.[84] It is unknown whether this glitch was exploited with the vulgar content filter enabled.

In popular culture[edit]

Siri provided the voice of ‘Puter in The Lego Batman Movie.[85]

See also[edit]

  • List of speech recognition software

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Further reading[edit]

  • For a detailed article on the history of the organizations and technologies preceding the development of Siri, and their influence upon that application, see Bianca Bosker, 2013, «Siri Rising: The Inside Story Of Siri’s Origins (And Why She Could Overshadow The iPhone)», in The Huffington Post (online), January 22, 2013 (updated January 24, 2013), accessed November 2, 2014.

External links[edit]

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Siri’s supported languages
  • SiriKit, Siri for developers
  • «The Story of Siri, by its founder Adam Cheyer». wit.ai. December 18, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2015.

Siri

Siri icon.png
Siri запущенный на iPhone 4S
Siri запущенный на iPhone 4S
Тип

Умный помощник программного обеспечения

Автор

Siri Inc.

Разработчик

Apple Inc.

Операционная система

iOS 6

Языки интерфейса

английский, французский, немецкий, японский.[1] корейский, китайский, итальянский, испанский

Первый выпуск

9 августа 2011

Аппаратная платформа

iPhone 5
IPad 3[2]

Лицензия

Проприетарное

Сайт

http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html

Siri (ˈsɪəri,  (рус.) Сири) (англ. Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface) — персональный помощник и вопросно-ответная система, адаптированная для iOS. Данное приложение использует обработку естественной речи, чтобы отвечать на вопросы и давать рекомендации. Siri приспосабливается к каждому пользователю индивидуально, изучая его предпочтения в течение долгого времени.[3]

Первоначально Siri стало доступно в App Store как приложение для iOS от Siri Inc. Вскоре, 28 апреля 2010 года, Siri Inc. была приобретена Apple Inc..[4] Но ещё до того, как Apple купила Siri, было объявлено, что их программное обеспечение будет доступно для телефонов BlackBerry и телефонов под управлением Android, затем эти планы были отменены из-за покупки.[5]

Сейчас Siri — неотъемлемая часть iOS 5, iOS 6 и доступна для iPhone 4S[6] и iPhone 5. Также, Siri появилась в iPad третьего и четвертого поколений. Несмотря на это, хакеры смогли приспособить Siri для старых моделей iPhone.[7] 8 ноября 2011 Apple публично заявила, что у неё нет планов на интеграцию Siri в старые модели iPhone, в связи с отсутствием на них чипа фильтрации фонового шума.[8]

Содержание

  • 1 Финансирование
  • 2 Участие DARPA
  • 3 iPhone приложение
  • 4 Интеграция в iOS
    • 4.1 IPhone 4S
    • 4.2 IPhone 5
  • 5 Научные исследования
  • 6 Поддерживаемые языки
  • 7 Географические ограничения
  • 8 Примечания

Финансирование

Siri начал разрабатываться в декабре 2007 года Дагом Китлауссом (CEO), Адамом Чейером и Томом Грюбером, совместно с Норманом Винарским из SRI International. 13 октября 2008 Siri получило финансирование в размере $8,5 миллионов от Menlo Ventures и Morgenthaler Ventures.[9] В ноябре 2009 года группа разработчиков получила дополнительное финансирование в размере $15,5 миллионов от тех же инвесторов, но в этот раз во главе с гонконгским миллионером Ли Цзячэном (Лэй Гасингом).[10] Даг Китлаусс покинул пост CEO после того, как Apple запустила iPhone 4S.[11]

Участие DARPA

Для Siri Apple использовала результат 40-летних исследований «Центра Искусственного Интеллекта» (отдела SRI International) финансируемого DARPA. Можно сказать что Siri это усовершенствованное CALO — Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes Program ( (рус.) программа — Познавательный Агент, который учится и организует).

Siri — это исследование, которое включает комбинированную работу исследовательских групп из Университета Карнеги — Меллон, Массачусетского Университета, Рочестерского Университета, Флоридского Института Познания Человека и Машины, Университета штата Орегон, Университета Южной Калифорнии и Стэнфордского Университета. Эта технология проделала огромный путь начиная с диалога и понимания естественного языка, машинного обучения, очевидного и вероятного рассуждения, онтологии и представления знаний, планирования.[12]

iPhone приложение

Siri впервые было запущено как приложение, доступное в App Store, в США. Приложение взаимодействовало с такими сервисами как OpenTable,[13] Google Maps,[14] MovieTickets и TaxiMagic.[15] Используя технологию голосовой идентификации от Nuance Communications и их партнёров, пользователи могли зарезервировать столики в ресторанах, купить билеты в кино или вызвать такси, используя естественный язык для обращения к Siri. Siri была приобретена Apple 28 апреля 2010 года[4] и данное приложение было изъято из App Store и прекратило своё существование 15 октября 2011 года.[16]

Интеграция в iOS

IPhone 4S

Siri был включен в программное обеспечение iPhone 4S 4 октября 2011 года. [17] Siri предполагает диалоговое взаимодействие со многими приложениями, включая напоминания, погоду, акции, передачу сообщений, электронную почту, календарь, контакты, примечания, музыку, часы, веб-браузер и карты.[3] Поддерживается английский (США, Великобритания и Австралия), немецкий, японский и французский языки.[18] В дальнейшем были добавлены китайский, итальянский, корейский и испанские языки.

IPhone 5

С запуском новой версии iOS 6. [19] Список нововведений:

  • Сможет рекомендовать рестораны, фильмы, а также бронировать билеты и столики.
  • Предоставлять информации о спортивных играх (счёт, биография, состав, матчи и т. д. )
  • Открывать приложения.
  • Писать в Twitter, Facebook.
  • Давать маршруты по картам.
  • Использовать приложение Apple Store (например, команда «Buy iPhone 5»)

Научные исследования

Siri — это разработка Международного Центра Искусственного Интеллекта SRI, является ответвлением финансируемого Управлением Перспективных Исследовательских Программ, описанного как, возможно, самый большой проект искусственного интеллекта на сегодняшний момент.[20]

Основные технические области Siri сосредотачиваются на диалоговом интерфейсе, распознавании контекста и сервисной делегации.[21]

Распознавание речи Siri основано на разработках голосовых технологий компании Nuance Communications.[22]

Действия и ответы Siri основаны на взаимодействии таких партнёров[23] как:

  • OpenTable, André Gayot, Citysearch, BooRah, [Yelp Inc, Yahoo Loca, ReserveTravel и Localeze для ресторанов, деловых вопросов и действий;
  • Eventful, StubHub и LiveKick для разных событий и концертной информации;
  • MovieTickets.com, Rotten Tomatoes и The New York Times для информации о фильмах и рецензиях на них;
  • True Knowledge[24], Bing и WolframAlpha для фактического ответа на вопрос;[25]
  • Bing и Google для веб-поиска.

Поддерживаемые языки

Язык[26] Регион Версия iOS
Английский Соединённые Штаты Америки США 5.0
Великобритания Великобритания 5.0
Австралия Австралия 5.0
Канада Канада 6.0
Испанский Испания Испания 6.0
Мексика Мексика 6.0
Соединённые Штаты Америки США 6.0
Итальянский Италия Италия 6.0
Швейцария Швейцария 6.0
Кантонский Гонконг Гонконг 6.0
Китайский Китайская Республика Тайвань 6.0
Китайская Народная Республика Китай 6.0
Корейский Республика Корея Южная Корея 6.0
Немецкий Германия Германия 5.0
Швейцария Швейцария 6.0
Французский Франция Франция 5.0
Канада Канада 6.0
Швейцария Швейцария 6.0
Японский Япония Япония 5.1

Географические ограничения

По состоянию на январь 2012 года, функциональность Siri в большинстве стран ограничена, карты и поисковая система Yelp доступны только в пределах США. Например, в Великобритании на запрос перечислить местные фирмы, проложить маршрут или дать информацию о движении Siri ответит: «Я могу искать фирмы, карты и обозревать движение только в США и при использовании американского английского. Сожалею об этом.»[27]

Примечания

  1. Apple — Siri — Frequently Asked Questions. Apple Inc. (4 октября 2011). Архивировано из первоисточника 31 августа 2012. Проверено 23 декабря 2011.
  2. Ferra.ru — iOS 6 принесет Siri на iPad, официально
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  4. 1 2 April 28, 2010 BREAKING NEWS: Siri bought by Apple. Scobleizer.com (28 апреля 2010). Проверено 5 октября 2011.
  5. Timothy Hay Siri Inc. Launches ‘Do Engine’ Application For iPhone. Dow Jones Newswire (5 февраля 2010). Архивировано из первоисточника 31 августа 2012. Проверено 9 октября 2011.
  6. Darren Murph «iPhone 4S hands-on!. Engadget (4 октября 2011). Архивировано из первоисточника 31 августа 2012. Проверено 9 октября 2011.
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  9. Lardinois, Frederic Semantic Stealth Startup Siri Raises $8.5 Million. Readwriteweb.com (13 октября 2008). Архивировано из первоисточника 31 августа 2012. Проверено 5 октября 2011.
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  25. Apple Siri. Apple.com. Архивировано из первоисточника 31 августа 2012. Проверено 5 октября 2011.
  26. Language Support,  (англ.)
  27. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/14/siri_functionality_limited_outside_us_but_apple_promises_updates_in_2012.html

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What do you know about him?

Sir, I know that wolsey sought the help of the emperor and the P…

His holiness, the pope, against his M… majesty.

Что ты знаешь о нем?

Сэр, я знаю, что Вулси ищет помощи императора и п.. п..

Папы?

— Why were you telling him anything?

— I’m sorry, sir. I had to keep talking just to stop him from putting his fingers in my mouth.

Kenneth, you are the worst gay bait ever.

Почему ты ему об этом рассказал? Простите, сэр.

Я говорил о чем угодно, только чтобы он не засовывал пальцы мне в рот

Ты самая худшая приманка на гея, Кеннет.

Ηey, listen, where’s your friend?

Sir, I don’t know.

Ηe was just here.

Послушай, а где ваш друг?

Не знаю, сэр.

Он только что был тут.

Don’t think you are the only cop in Hong Kong who can catch a thief.

Sir, I have heart problems.

I’m going to sue him.

Думаешь, ты единственный коп, который может ловить воров?

Сэр, у меня плохо с сердцем.

Я подам на него в суд.

But nasir what about his family?

I am your secretary sir i can handle it all.

Today is birthday of om kapoor, son of rajesh kapoor.

Но nasir что с его семьей?

Я ваш секретарь, сер, и я позабочусь об этом.

Сегодня день рождения Ома Капура, сына раджеша Капура.

Where is that rat bastard?

Sir, I don’t know.

Because I want to smash his face until he’s dead!

— Где этот крысиный ублюдок?

— Сэр, я не знаю.

Потому что я хочу бить ему морду, пока он не умрёт!

I’m sorry.

Sir, I don’t mean to be pushy, but we’ve been waiting for our car for almost 20 minutes.

Yes, ma’am.

Прошу прощения.

Сэр, простите за назойливость, но мы ждем машину уже 20 минут.

Да, мэм.

An open container I won’t pass.

Thank you, sir. I got him from here.

Somebody help me…

Но у меня нет иного выхода.

Спасибо, сэр.

Кто-нибудь, помогите…

The 16 patients in the waiting room aren’t comfortable either.

Sir, I

I-I don’t think there’s anything else we can do. You know, colds drag on.

16 пациентов в комнате ожидания которым тоже плохо

сэр, Я.

я не думаю, что мы ещё чем-нибудь сможем вам помочь понимаете, простуды затягивеются.

«The love train is leaving the station, and you know you want to taka ride»- «Take a ride on my love train. — o’malley.

«With all due respect, sir, I didn’t come up with the train or the station.

— Okay, give that to me. I’ll do it myself.

Поезд любви отходит от станции, и ты наверняка захочешь прокатиться.» — «Прокатись на моем поезде любви». — О’Мейли.

При всем уважении, сэр, это не я придумал про поезд и станцию.

— Ладно, дай мне, я сам напишу.

Scotty?

I’m sorry, sir, I read about you in the paper.

I’m sorry.

Скотти?

Простите, сэр, я читал о вас в газете.

Простите.

Perhaps you might find diversion in visiting the castle.

Sir, I couldn’t!

Well, then…

Возможно, посещение дворца вас развлечет?

Господин, я не смею!

Хорошо же…

You may have very well exceeded those parameters, Officer Sun, which…

— No, sir, I

…would make you irreversibly contaminated.

Вы вполне могли превысить эти лимиты, Офицер Сун.

Нет, сэр, я…

— И, вероятно, необратимо заражены.

— George?

Sir, I hate to tell you this…

— Where’s Pistachio? — Well…

— Джордж?

— Сэр, мне жаль вам это сообщать… — Где Фисташка?

— Ну…

— Look at what they’ve done!

Sir, I just do my job…

Yeah?

— Посмотри, что они сделали!

— Сэр, но такова моя работа…

Серьезно?

— Loyalist Red Coats!

Sir, I found the Russian’s eHarmony account!

It does list an address in South Park!

— Королевские Красные Мундиры!

Сэр, я нашёл аккаунт (счёт) русских на сайте знакомств!

Он содержит список адресов в Южном Парке!

You’re done with the countryside jobs?

Yes, sir. I even changed my name, to LEE Dae-Su.

Did you, now?

Ты закончил со своей провинциальной работой?

Я даже изменил имя на Ли Дэ Су.

Ли Дэ Су?

I told you I was rusty when it came to dating.

I don’t understand, sir. I thought you and Melinda really hit it off.

We did. Lovely woman.

я же говорил, что € отвык от всего этого, особенно, когда дело доходит до свидани€.

я не понимаю, сэр. ћне показалось, что вы с ћелиндой хорошо поладили.

«ак и есть. ќна красотка.

Of course, it says my name is Captain Billy Stinkwater, and that I’m half gopher.

Sir, I know that you’re sensitive about your age.

But getting older comes with tons of perks.

Правда там сказано что меня зовут Капитан Врунгель и я наполовину суслик.

Сэр, я понимаю что вы переживаете из-за возраста.

Но поймите, в этом же тоже есть свои преимущества.

Well, it’s like the last year, when the safety brake failed on Enid’s wheelchair, and she started rolling toward our pool, I told myself: «Bob, it’s already too late to stop it so you might as well sit back and enjoy it.»

Sir, I got you a power drill, I know you wanted one for your hobby shop.

The Janitor already gave me one, nobody likes a copycat.

Ну, это примерно как в прошлом году. Когда на каталке Энид отказал аварийный тормоз и она начала скатываться прямо в наш бассейн, я сказал себе — «Боб, ты уже не успеешь ее остановить, так что расслабься и получай удовольствие».

Сэр, хочу подарить вам электродрель, я знаю что вы хотели такую для своей мастерской.

Уборщик уже подарил мне одну, а еще одна мне не нужна.

I need to enter this paper.

Green, sir. I know you’re busy, but could you put this on the next cabinet agenda?

— What is it?

Мне нужно передать эти бумаги.

Мистер Грин, сэр, я знаю, вы заняты, но не могли бы вы рассмотреть это на следующем собрании?

— Что это?

Mayor, mayor, what are we supossed to do?

Please, sir, I have to get home to my world!

Oh, well! All you have to do is tap your heels together three times.

Вы должны вспомнить эту песню в её полном объёме!

— Мэр, мэр, что мы должны делать?

— Пожалуйста, сэр, я должен попасть домой в мой мир!

Are you gonna make sure this woman keeps her hands to herself?

Ye sir,I am.

Thank you,dr.Bailey.

Нет, сэр.

Не хотите удостоверитесь, что это женщина держит свои руки при себе?

Да, сэр. Спасибо, доктор Бейли.

Now we’ll have Amnesty International here peeing in their pants about human rights.

Sir I was thinking…

Get him down, tidy him up please. For God’s sake!

Теперь к нам приедут из «Международной Амнистии» и от усилий напустят себе в штаны, заявляя о международных правах человека.

Сэр, я думал, что…

Спусти его и приведи в нормальный вид ради бога!

So, who was on duty earlier this morning?

I was, sir, and, yes, sir, I did see Miss Weaver leave the college.

Any idea what sort of time?

Так, а скажите мне, кто дежурил этим утром?

Я, сэр, да, я, сэр. Я видел, как мисс Вивер покидала колледж

Имеете представление, когда это было?

When the thief comes, you whistle!

— Captain, Sir, I was thinking…

— What?

Свисти, когда вор пройдет рядом!

— Капитан, сэр, я ту подумал…

— Чего?

When it comes to you, you put your hands, nail them to the floor.

«No, sir, I will not applaud myself!»

It’s like carrying things out in doggy bags, we can’t do it.

Когда доходит дело до тебя, ты должен сложить свои руки, приклеить их к полу.

«Нет, сэр, я не буду аплодировать сам себе!»

Это как носить вещи в Доги Бэгах*. Мы не можем этого делать. *(пакеты, в которых посетители выносят недоеденную в ресторане пищу)

Idiot!

Sir, I

I’ll speak to you later

Болван!

Господин Тэраути, прошу прощения…

Я с тобой потом поговорю.

Makes it more fun.

Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

Come on.

Так веселее

Сэр, я думаю, у вас проблемы с пропавшим мозгом

Да ладно.

Dial the gate Dial it now

I swear, sir, I thought they wanted to smoke a peace pipe.

— Morning.

Набирайте обратный адрес! Набирайте немедленно!

Я клянусь, Сэр, я думал, что у них мирные намерения.

— Доброе утро, Сержант.

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На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать грубую лексику.


На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать разговорную лексику.

Сири

Siri

Сирией

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пульта Apple TV

Шири

голосовой помощник

Но Echo

Предложения


Can you ask siri to give you an answer a week from now?



И вы можете попросить Сири сообщить вам дату определенного дня недели.


Talk to siri as you are talking with person.



Они уже сейчас разговаривают с Сири так, как разговаривают с нормальными людьми.


By tapping and holding down the home button you will activate siri.



Если нажать и удерживать кнопку «Домой» слишком долго, вы активируете Siri.


This is a great article about what siri can do.



Краткая памятка о том, что может делать Siri.


The coolest new feature is cortana, windows 10’s version of siri, which appears net to the start button on the taskbar.



Крутой новой особенностью является Cortana, версия Siri для Windows 10, которая находится рядом с кнопкой Пуск на панели задач.


To communicate with the system and control it, the whole variety of tools from traditional button switches of various designs to touch-sensitive video panels and voice control (siri, google assistant, Alexa Alice) are used.



Для общения с системой и управления ею, используется все многообразие средств от традиционных кнопочных выключателей различного дизайна до сенсорных видео панелей и голосового управления (siri, google assistant, яндекс алиса).


While apple has siri and google has google now — both digital assistants that run on smartphones — microsoft is taking an approach that mixes the best of the competition with its own unique take.



Несмотря на то, что у Apple есть Siri, а у Google есть Now — другие цифровые помощники для мобильных устройств, Microsoft пошла своим путем, взяв лучшее от каждой из платформ.


Tagged: siri is depressed



Привет, Siri, у меня депрессия


How to change my name using siri



как сменить свое имя у сири


Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product.



Siri действительно больше походит на личность, чем на продукт.


Additionally, the light can be controlled by using Siri.



Кроме того, яркостью света также можно будет управлять с помощью Siri.


Siri is a voice-activated assistant that mimics human intelligence and natural conversation.



Siri — это голосовой помощник, который очень хорошо имитирует человеческий интеллект и естественный разговор.


Siri can read your texts to you.



Siri также может зачитывать вслух получаемые вами текстовые сообщения.


Contrast that with asking Siri a question.



Еще его можно получить, если задать Siri соответствующий вопрос.


Siri‘s biggest advantage is that it can understand natural language.



Ее главным преимуществом является то, что Siri использует естественный язык, чтобы понимать команды.


But some things even Siri can’t do.



Впрочем, существует несколько вещей, которые Siri сделать не может.


When Siri pronounces a name wrong you can correct it.



Но если Siri распознала слово неверно, то ее всегда можно поправить.


You can even ask Siri for transit directions.



Вы даже можете спросить у Siri, как куда-то добраться на общественном транспорте.


Siri learns what’s important to you and suggests stories you might like.



Siri узнаёт, что важно для вас, и рекомендует материалы, которые вам могут понравиться.


Like a real assistant, Siri helps you get things done.



И тогда, так же, как личный помощник, Siri предоставляет вам необходимую информацию.

Ничего не найдено для этого значения.

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Siri

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The Siri logo in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey (2021)

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Siri running on iOS

Developer(s) Apple
Initial release October 4, 2011; 11 years ago
Operating system iOS 5 onward, macOS Sierra onward, tvOS (all versions), watchOS (all versions), iPadOS
Platform
  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • iPod Touch
  • Mac
  • Apple TV
  • Apple Watch
  • HomePod
Available in
  • Arabic
  • Chinese: (Cantonese, Mandarin)
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Malay
  • Norwegian
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Turkish
Type Intelligent personal assistant
Website www.apple.com/siri/

Siri ( SEE-ree, SI-ree) is a virtual assistant that is part of Apple Inc.’s iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS, and audioOS operating systems.[1][2] It uses voice queries, gesture based control, focus-tracking and a natural-language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Internet services. With continued use, it adapts to users’ individual language usages, searches and preferences, returning individualized results.

Siri is a spin-off from a project developed by the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center. Its speech recognition engine was provided by Nuance Communications, and it uses advanced machine learning technologies to function. Its original American, British and Australian voice actors recorded their respective voices around 2005, unaware of the recordings’ eventual usage. Siri was released as an app for iOS in February 2010. Two months later, Apple acquired it and integrated into iPhone 4S at its release on 4 October, 2011, removing the separate app from the iOS App Store. Siri has since been an integral part of Apple’s products, having been adapted into other hardware devices including newer iPhone models, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, AirPods, Apple TV, and HomePod.

Siri supports a wide range of user commands, including performing phone actions, checking basic information, scheduling events and reminders, handling device settings, searching the Internet, navigating areas, finding information on entertainment, and is able to engage with iOS-integrated apps. With the release of iOS 10 in 2016, Apple opened up limited third-party access to Siri, including third-party messaging apps, as well as payments, ride-sharing, and Internet calling apps. With the release of iOS 11, Apple updated Siri’s voice and added support for follow-up questions, language translation, and additional third-party actions.

Siri’s original release on iPhone 4S in 2011 received mixed reviews. It received praise for its voice recognition and contextual knowledge of user information, including calendar appointments, but was criticized for requiring stiff user commands and having a lack of flexibility. It was also criticized for lacking information on certain nearby places, and for its inability to understand certain English accents. In 2016 and 2017, a number of media reports said that Siri lacked innovation, particularly against new competing voice assistants. The reports concerned Siri’s limited set of features, «bad» voice recognition, and undeveloped service integrations as causing trouble for Apple in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud-based services; the basis for the complaints reportedly due to stifled development, as caused by Apple’s prioritization of user privacy and executive power struggles within the company.[3] Its launch was also overshadowed by the death of Steve Jobs, which occurred one day after the launch.

Development[edit]

Siri is a spin-out from the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center, and is an offshoot of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA)-funded CALO project.[4] SRI International used the NABC Framework to define the value proposition for Siri.[5] It was co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, Tom Gruber, and UCLA alumnus Adam Cheyer.[4] Kittlaus named Siri after a co-worker in Norway; the name is a short form of the name Sigrid, from Old Norse Sigríðr, composed of the elements sigr «victory» and fríðr «beautiful».[6]

Siri’s speech recognition engine was provided by Nuance Communications, a speech technology company.[7] Neither Apple nor Nuance acknowledged this for years,[8][9] until Nuance CEO Paul Ricci confirmed it at a 2011 technology conference.[7] The speech recognition system uses sophisticated machine learning techniques, including convolutional neural networks and long short-term memory.[10]

The initial Siri prototype was implemented using the Active platform, a joint project between the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International and the Vrai Group at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The Active platform was the focus of a Ph.D. thesis led by Didier Guzzoni, who joined Siri as its chief scientist.[11]

Siri was acquired by Apple Inc. in April 2010 under the direction of Steve Jobs.[12] Apple’s first notion of a digital personal assistant appeared in a 1987 concept video, Knowledge Navigator.[13][14]

Voices[edit]

The original American voice of Siri was recorded in July 2005 by Susan Bennett, who was unaware it would eventually be used for the voice assistant.[15][16] A report from The Verge in September 2013 about voice actors, their work, and machine learning developments, hinted that Allison Dufty was the voice behind Siri,[17][18] but this was disproven when Dufty wrote on her website that she was «absolutely, positively not the voice of Siri.»[16] Citing growing pressure, Bennett revealed her role as Siri in October, and her claim was confirmed by Ed Primeau, an American audio forensics expert.[16] Apple has never acknowledged it.[16]

The original British male voice was provided by Jon Briggs, a former technology journalist and for 12 years narrated for the hit BBC quiz show The Weakest Link.[15] After discovering he was Siri’s voice by watching television, he first spoke about the role in November 2011. He acknowledged that the voice work was done «five or six years ago», and that he didn’t know how the recordings would be used.[19][20]

The original Australian voice was provided by Karen Jacobsen, a voice-over artist known in Australia as the GPS girl.[15][21]

In an interview between all three voice actors and The Guardian, Briggs said that «the original system was recorded for a US company called Scansoft, who were then bought by Nuance. Apple simply licensed it.»[21]

For iOS 11, Apple auditioned hundreds of candidates to find new female voices, then recorded several hours of speech, including different personalities and expressions, to build a new text-to-speech voice based on deep learning technology.[22] In February 2022, Apple added Quinn, its first gender-neutral voice as a fifth user option, to the iOS 15.4 developer release.[23]

Integration[edit]

Siri released as a stand-alone application for the iOS operating system in February 2010, and at the time, the developers were also intending to release Siri for Android and BlackBerry devices.[24] Two months later, Apple acquired Siri.[25][26][27] On October 4, 2011, Apple introduced the iPhone 4S with a beta version of Siri.[28][29] After the announcement, Apple removed the existing standalone Siri app from App Store.[30] TechCrunch wrote that, though the Siri app supports iPhone 4, its removal from App Store might also have had a financial aspect for the company, in providing an incentive for customers to upgrade devices.[30] Third-party developer Steven Troughton-Smith, however, managed to port Siri to iPhone 4, though without being able to communicate with Apple’s servers.[31] A few days later, Troughton-Smith, working with an anonymous person nicknamed «Chpwn», managed to fully hack Siri, enabling its full functionalities on iPhone 4 and iPod Touch devices.[32] Additionally, developers were also able to successfully create and distribute legal ports of Siri to any device capable of running iOS 5, though a proxy server was required for Apple server interaction.[33]

Over the years, Apple has expanded the line of officially supported products, including newer iPhone models,[34] as well as iPad support in June 2012,[35] iPod Touch support in September 2012,[36] Apple TV support, and the stand-alone Siri Remote, in September 2015,[37] Mac and AirPods support in September 2016,[38][39] and HomePod support in February 2018.[40][41]

Features and options[edit]

Apple offers a wide range of voice commands to interact with Siri, including, but not limited to:[42]

  • Phone and text actions, such as «Call Sarah», «Read my new messages», «Set the timer for 10 minutes», and «Send email to mom»
  • Check basic information, including «What’s the weather like today?» and «How many dollars are in a euro?»
  • Find basic facts, including «How many people live in France?» and «How tall is Mount Everest?». Siri usually uses Wikipedia to answer.[43]
  • Schedule events and reminders, including «Schedule a meeting» and «Remind me to …»
  • Handle device settings, such as «Take a picture», «Turn off Wi-Fi», and «Increase the brightness»
  • Search the Internet, including «Define …», «Find pictures of …», and «Search Twitter for …»
  • Navigation, including «Take me home», «What’s traffic like on the way home?», and «Find driving directions to …»
  • Translate words and phrases from English to a few languages, such as «How do I say where is the nearest hotel in French?»
  • Entertainment, such as «What basketball games are on today?», «What are some movies playing near me?», and «What’s the synopsis of …?»
  • Engage with iOS-integrated apps, including «Pause Apple Music» and «Like this song»
  • Handle payments through Apple Pay, such as «Apple Pay 25 dollars to Mike for concert tickets» or «Send 41 dollars to Ivana.»

Siri also offers numerous pre-programmed responses to amusing questions.[44] Such questions include «What is the meaning of life?» to which Siri may reply «All evidence to date suggests it’s chocolate»; «Why am I here?», to which it may reply «I don’t know. Frankly, I’ve wondered that myself»; and «Will you marry me?», to which it may respond with «My End User Licensing Agreement does not cover marriage. My apologies.»[45][46]

Initially limited to female voices, Apple announced in June 2013 that Siri would feature a gender option, adding a male voice counterpart.[47]

In September 2014, Apple added the ability for users to speak «Hey Siri» to enable the assistant without the requirement of physically handling the device.[48]

In September 2015, the «Hey Siri» feature was updated to include individualized voice recognition, a presumed effort to prevent non-owner activation.[49][50]

With the announcement of iOS 10 in June 2016, Apple opened up limited third-party developer access to Siri through a dedicated application programming interface (API). The API restricts usage of Siri to engaging with third-party messaging apps, payment apps, ride-sharing apps, and Internet calling apps.[51][52]

In iOS 11, Siri is able to handle follow-up questions, supports language translation, and opens up to more third-party actions, including task management.[53][54] Additionally, users are able to type to Siri,[55] and a new, privacy-minded «on-device learning» technique improves Siri’s suggestions by privately analyzing personal usage of different iOS applications.[56]

Reception[edit]

Siri received mixed reviews during its beta release as an integrated part of iPhone 4S in October 2011.

MG Siegler of TechCrunch wrote that Siri was «great,» praising the potential for Siri after losing the beta tag:

The amount of times Siri hasn’t been able to understand and execute my request is astonishingly low. … Just imagine what will happen when Apple partners with other services to expand Siri further. And imagine when they have an API that any developer can use. This really could alter the mobile landscape.[57]

Writing for The New York Times, David Pogue also praised Siri’s language understanding and ability to understand context:

[Siri] thinks for a few seconds, displays a beautifully formatted response and speaks in a calm female voice. … It’s mind-blowing how inexact your utterances can be. Siri understands everything from, ‘What’s the weather going to be like in Tucson this weekend?’ to ‘Will I need an umbrella tonight?’ … Once, I tried saying, ‘Make an appointment with Patrick for Thursday at 3.’ Siri responded, ‘Note that you already have an all-day appointment about «Boston Trip» for this Thursday. Shall I schedule this anyway?’ Unbelievable.[58]

Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica wrote that Apple’s claims of what Siri could do were bold, and the early demos «even bolder»:

Though Siri shows real potential, these kinds of high expectations are bound to be disappointed. … Apple makes clear that the product is still in beta—an appropriate label, in our opinion.[59]

While praising its ability to «decipher our casual language» and deliver «very specific and accurate result,» sometimes even providing additional information, Cheng noted and criticized its restrictions, particularly when the language moved away from «stiffer commands» into more human interactions. One example included the phrase «Send a text to Jason, Clint, Sam, and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud,» which Siri interpreted as sending a message to Jason only, containing the text «Clint Sam and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud.» She also noted a lack of proper editability, as saying «Edit message to say: We’re at Silver Cloud and you should come find us,» generated «Clint Sam and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud to say we’re at Silver Cloud and you should come find us.»[59]

Google’s executive chairman and former chief, Eric Schmidt, conceded that Siri could pose a competitive threat to the company’s core search business.[60]

Siri was criticized by pro-abortion rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and NARAL Pro-Choice America, after users found that Siri could not provide information about the location of birth control or abortion providers nearby, sometimes directing users to crisis pregnancy centers instead.[61][62][63]

Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple, told The New York Times:

Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of information, and while it can find a lot, it doesn’t always find what you want. … These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better, and we will in the coming weeks.[64]

In January 2016, Fast Company reported that, in then-recent months, Siri had begun to confuse the word «abortion» with «adoption», citing «health experts» who stated that the situation had «gotten worse.» However, at the time of Fast Companys report, the situation had changed slightly, with Siri offering «a more comprehensive list of Planned Parenthood facilities», although «Adoption clinics continue to pop up, but near the bottom of the list.»[65][66]

Siri has also not been well received by some English speakers with distinctive accents, including Scottish[67] and Americans from Boston or the South.[68]

In March 2012, Frank M. Fazio filed a class action lawsuit against Apple on behalf of the people who bought iPhone 4S and felt misled about the capabilities of Siri, alleging its failing to function as depicted in Apple’s Siri commercials. Fazio filed the lawsuit in California and claimed that the iPhone 4S was merely a «more expensive iPhone 4» if Siri fails to function as advertised.[69][70] On July 22, 2013, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in San Francisco dismissed the suit but said the plaintiffs could amend at a later time. The reason given for dismissal was that plaintiffs did not sufficiently document enough misrepresentations by Apple for the trial to proceed.[71]

Perceived lack of innovation[edit]

In June 2016, The Verges Sean O’Kane wrote about the then-upcoming major iOS 10 updates, with a headline stating «Siri’s big upgrades won’t matter if it can’t understand its users»:

What Apple didn’t talk about was solving Siri’s biggest, most basic flaws: it’s still not very good at voice recognition, and when it gets it right, the results are often clunky. And these problems look even worse when you consider that Apple now has full-fledged competitors in this space: Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google’s Assistant.[72]

Also writing for The Verge, Walt Mossberg had previously questioned Apple’s efforts in cloud-based services, writing:[73]

 perhaps the biggest disappointment among Apple’s cloud-based services is the one it needs most today, right now: Siri. Before Apple bought it, Siri was on the road to being a robust digital assistant that could do many things, and integrate with many services—even though it was being built by a startup with limited funds and people. After Apple bought Siri, the giant company seemed to treat it as a backwater, restricting it to doing only a few, slowly increasing number of tasks, like telling you the weather, sports scores, movie and restaurant listings, and controlling the device’s functions. Its unhappy founders have left Apple to build a new AI service called Viv. And, on too many occasions, Siri either gets things wrong, doesn’t know the answer, or can’t verbalize it. Instead, it shows you a web search result, even when you’re not in a position to read it.

In October 2016, Bloomberg reported that Apple had plans to unify the teams behind its various cloud-based services, including a single campus and reorganized cloud computing resources aimed at improving the processing of Siri’s queries,[74] although another report from The Verge, in June 2017, once again called Siri’s voice recognition «bad.»[75]

In June 2017, The Wall Street Journal published an extensive report on the lack of innovation with Siri following competitors’ advancement in the field of voice assistants. Noting that Apple workers’ anxiety levels «went up a notch» on the announcement of Amazon’s Alexa, the Journal wrote: «Today, Apple is playing catch-up in a product category it invented, increasing worries about whether the technology giant has lost some of its innovation edge.» The report gave the primary causes being Apple’s prioritization of user privacy, including randomly-tagged six-month Siri searches, whereas Google and Amazon keep data until actively discarded by the user,[clarification needed] and executive power struggles within Apple. Apple did not comment on the report, while Eddy Cue said: «Apple often uses generic data rather than user data to train its systems and has the ability to improve Siri’s performance for individual users with information kept on their iPhones.»[3][76]

Privacy controversy[edit]

In July 2019, a then-anonymous whistleblower and former Apple contractor Thomas le Bonniec said that Siri regularly records some of its users’ conversations even when it was not activated. The recordings are sent to Apple contractors grading Siri’s responses on a variety of factors. Among other things, the contractors regularly hear private conversations between doctors and patients, business and drug deals, and couples having sex. Apple did not disclose this in its privacy documentation and did not provide a way for its users to opt in or out.[77]

In August 2019, Apple apologized, halted the Siri grading program, and said that it plans to resume «later this fall when software updates are released to [its] users».[78] iOS 13.2, released in October 2019, introduced the ability to opt out of the grading program and to delete all the voice recordings that Apple has stored on its servers.[79]

In May 2020, Thomas le Bonniec revealed himself as the whistleblower and sent a letter to European data protection regulators, calling on them to investigate Apple’s «past and present» use of Siri recordings. He argued that, even though Apple has apologized, it has never faced the consequences for its years-long grading program.[80][81]

Swearing[edit]

The iOS version of Siri ships with a vulgar content filter; however, it is disabled by default and must be enabled by the user manually.[82] Therefore, if Siri can be triggered into cursing, broadcasting discriminatory content, and so on, the actions will most likely be carried out. Over its history, multiple methods and techniques have been used to trigger Siri into swearing. The language-filter is not perfect and can still be bypassed.[citation needed]

In 2018, Ars Technica reported a new glitch that could be exploited by a user requesting the definition of «mother» be read out loud. Siri would issue a response and ask the user if they would like to hear the next definition; when the user replies with «yes,» Siri would mention «mother» as being short for «motherfucker.»[83] This resulted in multiple YouTube videos featuring the responses and/or how to trigger them. Apple fixed the issue silently, although it is unconfirmed if the videos specifically brought it to their attention. The content is picked up from third-party sources such as the Oxford English Dictionary and not a supplied message from the corporation.[84] It is unknown whether this glitch was exploited with the vulgar content filter enabled.

In popular culture[edit]

Siri provided the voice of ‘Puter in The Lego Batman Movie.[85]

See also[edit]

  • List of speech recognition software

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Further reading[edit]

  • For a detailed article on the history of the organizations and technologies preceding the development of Siri, and their influence upon that application, see Bianca Bosker, 2013, «Siri Rising: The Inside Story Of Siri’s Origins (And Why She Could Overshadow The iPhone)», in The Huffington Post (online), January 22, 2013 (updated January 24, 2013), accessed November 2, 2014.

External links[edit]

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Siri’s supported languages
  • SiriKit, Siri for developers
  • «The Story of Siri, by its founder Adam Cheyer». wit.ai. December 18, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
Siri

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The Siri logo in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey (2021)

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Siri running on iOS

Developer(s) Apple
Initial release October 4, 2011; 11 years ago
Operating system iOS 5 onward, macOS Sierra onward, tvOS (all versions), watchOS (all versions), iPadOS
Platform
  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • iPod Touch
  • Mac
  • Apple TV
  • Apple Watch
  • HomePod
Available in
  • Arabic
  • Chinese: (Cantonese, Mandarin)
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Malay
  • Norwegian
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Turkish
Type Intelligent personal assistant
Website www.apple.com/siri/

Siri ( SEE-ree, SI-ree) is a virtual assistant that is part of Apple Inc.’s iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS, and audioOS operating systems.[1][2] It uses voice queries, gesture based control, focus-tracking and a natural-language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Internet services. With continued use, it adapts to users’ individual language usages, searches and preferences, returning individualized results.

Siri is a spin-off from a project developed by the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center. Its speech recognition engine was provided by Nuance Communications, and it uses advanced machine learning technologies to function. Its original American, British and Australian voice actors recorded their respective voices around 2005, unaware of the recordings’ eventual usage. Siri was released as an app for iOS in February 2010. Two months later, Apple acquired it and integrated into iPhone 4S at its release on 4 October, 2011, removing the separate app from the iOS App Store. Siri has since been an integral part of Apple’s products, having been adapted into other hardware devices including newer iPhone models, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, AirPods, Apple TV, and HomePod.

Siri supports a wide range of user commands, including performing phone actions, checking basic information, scheduling events and reminders, handling device settings, searching the Internet, navigating areas, finding information on entertainment, and is able to engage with iOS-integrated apps. With the release of iOS 10 in 2016, Apple opened up limited third-party access to Siri, including third-party messaging apps, as well as payments, ride-sharing, and Internet calling apps. With the release of iOS 11, Apple updated Siri’s voice and added support for follow-up questions, language translation, and additional third-party actions.

Siri’s original release on iPhone 4S in 2011 received mixed reviews. It received praise for its voice recognition and contextual knowledge of user information, including calendar appointments, but was criticized for requiring stiff user commands and having a lack of flexibility. It was also criticized for lacking information on certain nearby places, and for its inability to understand certain English accents. In 2016 and 2017, a number of media reports said that Siri lacked innovation, particularly against new competing voice assistants. The reports concerned Siri’s limited set of features, «bad» voice recognition, and undeveloped service integrations as causing trouble for Apple in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud-based services; the basis for the complaints reportedly due to stifled development, as caused by Apple’s prioritization of user privacy and executive power struggles within the company.[3] Its launch was also overshadowed by the death of Steve Jobs, which occurred one day after the launch.

Development[edit]

Siri is a spin-out from the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center, and is an offshoot of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA)-funded CALO project.[4] SRI International used the NABC Framework to define the value proposition for Siri.[5] It was co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, Tom Gruber, and UCLA alumnus Adam Cheyer.[4] Kittlaus named Siri after a co-worker in Norway; the name is a short form of the name Sigrid, from Old Norse Sigríðr, composed of the elements sigr «victory» and fríðr «beautiful».[6]

Siri’s speech recognition engine was provided by Nuance Communications, a speech technology company.[7] Neither Apple nor Nuance acknowledged this for years,[8][9] until Nuance CEO Paul Ricci confirmed it at a 2011 technology conference.[7] The speech recognition system uses sophisticated machine learning techniques, including convolutional neural networks and long short-term memory.[10]

The initial Siri prototype was implemented using the Active platform, a joint project between the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International and the Vrai Group at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The Active platform was the focus of a Ph.D. thesis led by Didier Guzzoni, who joined Siri as its chief scientist.[11]

Siri was acquired by Apple Inc. in April 2010 under the direction of Steve Jobs.[12] Apple’s first notion of a digital personal assistant appeared in a 1987 concept video, Knowledge Navigator.[13][14]

Voices[edit]

The original American voice of Siri was recorded in July 2005 by Susan Bennett, who was unaware it would eventually be used for the voice assistant.[15][16] A report from The Verge in September 2013 about voice actors, their work, and machine learning developments, hinted that Allison Dufty was the voice behind Siri,[17][18] but this was disproven when Dufty wrote on her website that she was «absolutely, positively not the voice of Siri.»[16] Citing growing pressure, Bennett revealed her role as Siri in October, and her claim was confirmed by Ed Primeau, an American audio forensics expert.[16] Apple has never acknowledged it.[16]

The original British male voice was provided by Jon Briggs, a former technology journalist and for 12 years narrated for the hit BBC quiz show The Weakest Link.[15] After discovering he was Siri’s voice by watching television, he first spoke about the role in November 2011. He acknowledged that the voice work was done «five or six years ago», and that he didn’t know how the recordings would be used.[19][20]

The original Australian voice was provided by Karen Jacobsen, a voice-over artist known in Australia as the GPS girl.[15][21]

In an interview between all three voice actors and The Guardian, Briggs said that «the original system was recorded for a US company called Scansoft, who were then bought by Nuance. Apple simply licensed it.»[21]

For iOS 11, Apple auditioned hundreds of candidates to find new female voices, then recorded several hours of speech, including different personalities and expressions, to build a new text-to-speech voice based on deep learning technology.[22] In February 2022, Apple added Quinn, its first gender-neutral voice as a fifth user option, to the iOS 15.4 developer release.[23]

Integration[edit]

Siri released as a stand-alone application for the iOS operating system in February 2010, and at the time, the developers were also intending to release Siri for Android and BlackBerry devices.[24] Two months later, Apple acquired Siri.[25][26][27] On October 4, 2011, Apple introduced the iPhone 4S with a beta version of Siri.[28][29] After the announcement, Apple removed the existing standalone Siri app from App Store.[30] TechCrunch wrote that, though the Siri app supports iPhone 4, its removal from App Store might also have had a financial aspect for the company, in providing an incentive for customers to upgrade devices.[30] Third-party developer Steven Troughton-Smith, however, managed to port Siri to iPhone 4, though without being able to communicate with Apple’s servers.[31] A few days later, Troughton-Smith, working with an anonymous person nicknamed «Chpwn», managed to fully hack Siri, enabling its full functionalities on iPhone 4 and iPod Touch devices.[32] Additionally, developers were also able to successfully create and distribute legal ports of Siri to any device capable of running iOS 5, though a proxy server was required for Apple server interaction.[33]

Over the years, Apple has expanded the line of officially supported products, including newer iPhone models,[34] as well as iPad support in June 2012,[35] iPod Touch support in September 2012,[36] Apple TV support, and the stand-alone Siri Remote, in September 2015,[37] Mac and AirPods support in September 2016,[38][39] and HomePod support in February 2018.[40][41]

Features and options[edit]

Apple offers a wide range of voice commands to interact with Siri, including, but not limited to:[42]

  • Phone and text actions, such as «Call Sarah», «Read my new messages», «Set the timer for 10 minutes», and «Send email to mom»
  • Check basic information, including «What’s the weather like today?» and «How many dollars are in a euro?»
  • Find basic facts, including «How many people live in France?» and «How tall is Mount Everest?». Siri usually uses Wikipedia to answer.[43]
  • Schedule events and reminders, including «Schedule a meeting» and «Remind me to …»
  • Handle device settings, such as «Take a picture», «Turn off Wi-Fi», and «Increase the brightness»
  • Search the Internet, including «Define …», «Find pictures of …», and «Search Twitter for …»
  • Navigation, including «Take me home», «What’s traffic like on the way home?», and «Find driving directions to …»
  • Translate words and phrases from English to a few languages, such as «How do I say where is the nearest hotel in French?»
  • Entertainment, such as «What basketball games are on today?», «What are some movies playing near me?», and «What’s the synopsis of …?»
  • Engage with iOS-integrated apps, including «Pause Apple Music» and «Like this song»
  • Handle payments through Apple Pay, such as «Apple Pay 25 dollars to Mike for concert tickets» or «Send 41 dollars to Ivana.»

Siri also offers numerous pre-programmed responses to amusing questions.[44] Such questions include «What is the meaning of life?» to which Siri may reply «All evidence to date suggests it’s chocolate»; «Why am I here?», to which it may reply «I don’t know. Frankly, I’ve wondered that myself»; and «Will you marry me?», to which it may respond with «My End User Licensing Agreement does not cover marriage. My apologies.»[45][46]

Initially limited to female voices, Apple announced in June 2013 that Siri would feature a gender option, adding a male voice counterpart.[47]

In September 2014, Apple added the ability for users to speak «Hey Siri» to enable the assistant without the requirement of physically handling the device.[48]

In September 2015, the «Hey Siri» feature was updated to include individualized voice recognition, a presumed effort to prevent non-owner activation.[49][50]

With the announcement of iOS 10 in June 2016, Apple opened up limited third-party developer access to Siri through a dedicated application programming interface (API). The API restricts usage of Siri to engaging with third-party messaging apps, payment apps, ride-sharing apps, and Internet calling apps.[51][52]

In iOS 11, Siri is able to handle follow-up questions, supports language translation, and opens up to more third-party actions, including task management.[53][54] Additionally, users are able to type to Siri,[55] and a new, privacy-minded «on-device learning» technique improves Siri’s suggestions by privately analyzing personal usage of different iOS applications.[56]

Reception[edit]

Siri received mixed reviews during its beta release as an integrated part of iPhone 4S in October 2011.

MG Siegler of TechCrunch wrote that Siri was «great,» praising the potential for Siri after losing the beta tag:

The amount of times Siri hasn’t been able to understand and execute my request is astonishingly low. … Just imagine what will happen when Apple partners with other services to expand Siri further. And imagine when they have an API that any developer can use. This really could alter the mobile landscape.[57]

Writing for The New York Times, David Pogue also praised Siri’s language understanding and ability to understand context:

[Siri] thinks for a few seconds, displays a beautifully formatted response and speaks in a calm female voice. … It’s mind-blowing how inexact your utterances can be. Siri understands everything from, ‘What’s the weather going to be like in Tucson this weekend?’ to ‘Will I need an umbrella tonight?’ … Once, I tried saying, ‘Make an appointment with Patrick for Thursday at 3.’ Siri responded, ‘Note that you already have an all-day appointment about «Boston Trip» for this Thursday. Shall I schedule this anyway?’ Unbelievable.[58]

Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica wrote that Apple’s claims of what Siri could do were bold, and the early demos «even bolder»:

Though Siri shows real potential, these kinds of high expectations are bound to be disappointed. … Apple makes clear that the product is still in beta—an appropriate label, in our opinion.[59]

While praising its ability to «decipher our casual language» and deliver «very specific and accurate result,» sometimes even providing additional information, Cheng noted and criticized its restrictions, particularly when the language moved away from «stiffer commands» into more human interactions. One example included the phrase «Send a text to Jason, Clint, Sam, and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud,» which Siri interpreted as sending a message to Jason only, containing the text «Clint Sam and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud.» She also noted a lack of proper editability, as saying «Edit message to say: We’re at Silver Cloud and you should come find us,» generated «Clint Sam and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud to say we’re at Silver Cloud and you should come find us.»[59]

Google’s executive chairman and former chief, Eric Schmidt, conceded that Siri could pose a competitive threat to the company’s core search business.[60]

Siri was criticized by pro-abortion rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and NARAL Pro-Choice America, after users found that Siri could not provide information about the location of birth control or abortion providers nearby, sometimes directing users to crisis pregnancy centers instead.[61][62][63]

Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple, told The New York Times:

Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of information, and while it can find a lot, it doesn’t always find what you want. … These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better, and we will in the coming weeks.[64]

In January 2016, Fast Company reported that, in then-recent months, Siri had begun to confuse the word «abortion» with «adoption», citing «health experts» who stated that the situation had «gotten worse.» However, at the time of Fast Companys report, the situation had changed slightly, with Siri offering «a more comprehensive list of Planned Parenthood facilities», although «Adoption clinics continue to pop up, but near the bottom of the list.»[65][66]

Siri has also not been well received by some English speakers with distinctive accents, including Scottish[67] and Americans from Boston or the South.[68]

In March 2012, Frank M. Fazio filed a class action lawsuit against Apple on behalf of the people who bought iPhone 4S and felt misled about the capabilities of Siri, alleging its failing to function as depicted in Apple’s Siri commercials. Fazio filed the lawsuit in California and claimed that the iPhone 4S was merely a «more expensive iPhone 4» if Siri fails to function as advertised.[69][70] On July 22, 2013, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in San Francisco dismissed the suit but said the plaintiffs could amend at a later time. The reason given for dismissal was that plaintiffs did not sufficiently document enough misrepresentations by Apple for the trial to proceed.[71]

Perceived lack of innovation[edit]

In June 2016, The Verges Sean O’Kane wrote about the then-upcoming major iOS 10 updates, with a headline stating «Siri’s big upgrades won’t matter if it can’t understand its users»:

What Apple didn’t talk about was solving Siri’s biggest, most basic flaws: it’s still not very good at voice recognition, and when it gets it right, the results are often clunky. And these problems look even worse when you consider that Apple now has full-fledged competitors in this space: Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google’s Assistant.[72]

Also writing for The Verge, Walt Mossberg had previously questioned Apple’s efforts in cloud-based services, writing:[73]

 perhaps the biggest disappointment among Apple’s cloud-based services is the one it needs most today, right now: Siri. Before Apple bought it, Siri was on the road to being a robust digital assistant that could do many things, and integrate with many services—even though it was being built by a startup with limited funds and people. After Apple bought Siri, the giant company seemed to treat it as a backwater, restricting it to doing only a few, slowly increasing number of tasks, like telling you the weather, sports scores, movie and restaurant listings, and controlling the device’s functions. Its unhappy founders have left Apple to build a new AI service called Viv. And, on too many occasions, Siri either gets things wrong, doesn’t know the answer, or can’t verbalize it. Instead, it shows you a web search result, even when you’re not in a position to read it.

In October 2016, Bloomberg reported that Apple had plans to unify the teams behind its various cloud-based services, including a single campus and reorganized cloud computing resources aimed at improving the processing of Siri’s queries,[74] although another report from The Verge, in June 2017, once again called Siri’s voice recognition «bad.»[75]

In June 2017, The Wall Street Journal published an extensive report on the lack of innovation with Siri following competitors’ advancement in the field of voice assistants. Noting that Apple workers’ anxiety levels «went up a notch» on the announcement of Amazon’s Alexa, the Journal wrote: «Today, Apple is playing catch-up in a product category it invented, increasing worries about whether the technology giant has lost some of its innovation edge.» The report gave the primary causes being Apple’s prioritization of user privacy, including randomly-tagged six-month Siri searches, whereas Google and Amazon keep data until actively discarded by the user,[clarification needed] and executive power struggles within Apple. Apple did not comment on the report, while Eddy Cue said: «Apple often uses generic data rather than user data to train its systems and has the ability to improve Siri’s performance for individual users with information kept on their iPhones.»[3][76]

Privacy controversy[edit]

In July 2019, a then-anonymous whistleblower and former Apple contractor Thomas le Bonniec said that Siri regularly records some of its users’ conversations even when it was not activated. The recordings are sent to Apple contractors grading Siri’s responses on a variety of factors. Among other things, the contractors regularly hear private conversations between doctors and patients, business and drug deals, and couples having sex. Apple did not disclose this in its privacy documentation and did not provide a way for its users to opt in or out.[77]

In August 2019, Apple apologized, halted the Siri grading program, and said that it plans to resume «later this fall when software updates are released to [its] users».[78] iOS 13.2, released in October 2019, introduced the ability to opt out of the grading program and to delete all the voice recordings that Apple has stored on its servers.[79]

In May 2020, Thomas le Bonniec revealed himself as the whistleblower and sent a letter to European data protection regulators, calling on them to investigate Apple’s «past and present» use of Siri recordings. He argued that, even though Apple has apologized, it has never faced the consequences for its years-long grading program.[80][81]

Swearing[edit]

The iOS version of Siri ships with a vulgar content filter; however, it is disabled by default and must be enabled by the user manually.[82] Therefore, if Siri can be triggered into cursing, broadcasting discriminatory content, and so on, the actions will most likely be carried out. Over its history, multiple methods and techniques have been used to trigger Siri into swearing. The language-filter is not perfect and can still be bypassed.[citation needed]

In 2018, Ars Technica reported a new glitch that could be exploited by a user requesting the definition of «mother» be read out loud. Siri would issue a response and ask the user if they would like to hear the next definition; when the user replies with «yes,» Siri would mention «mother» as being short for «motherfucker.»[83] This resulted in multiple YouTube videos featuring the responses and/or how to trigger them. Apple fixed the issue silently, although it is unconfirmed if the videos specifically brought it to their attention. The content is picked up from third-party sources such as the Oxford English Dictionary and not a supplied message from the corporation.[84] It is unknown whether this glitch was exploited with the vulgar content filter enabled.

In popular culture[edit]

Siri provided the voice of ‘Puter in The Lego Batman Movie.[85]

See also[edit]

  • List of speech recognition software

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Further reading[edit]

  • For a detailed article on the history of the organizations and technologies preceding the development of Siri, and their influence upon that application, see Bianca Bosker, 2013, «Siri Rising: The Inside Story Of Siri’s Origins (And Why She Could Overshadow The iPhone)», in The Huffington Post (online), January 22, 2013 (updated January 24, 2013), accessed November 2, 2014.

External links[edit]

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Siri’s supported languages
  • SiriKit, Siri for developers
  • «The Story of Siri, by its founder Adam Cheyer». wit.ai. December 18, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2015.

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Имя Сири состоит из 4 букв. Имена из четырех букв говорят об уме и практичности. Такие люди отличаются спокойствием и уравновешенностью, что всегда производит самое выгодное впечатление. То же касается и их внешнего облика – ничего вычурного, кричаще безвкусного. Проанализировав значение каждой буквы в имени Сири можно понять его тайный смысл и скрытое значение.

  • С — стремятся достичь материальной устойчивости, обладают здравым смыслом; раздражительны, властолюбивы, могут быть капризными. Познавательность, желание доводить любое дело до конца, умение докопаться до истины. Понимают своё жизненное предназначение. Умение приспосабливаться к обстоятельствам.
  • И — романтичные, утончённые и чувственные натуры. Добрые, мечтают о гармонии с окружающим миром. В сложной ситуации проявляют практичность. Иногда склонны к одиночеству и аскетизму. Неумение подчиняться кому-либо, в то же время указывает на равнодушие к власти.
  • Р — противостоят воздействию извне, уверены в себе, храбрые, увлечённые личности. Способны к неоправданному риску, авантюрные натуры склонны к непререкаемым суждениям. Умение рисковать ради цели. Желание и потенциал для лидерства.
  • И — романтичные, утончённые и чувственные натуры. Добрые, мечтают о гармонии с окружающим миром. В сложной ситуации проявляют практичность. Иногда склонны к одиночеству и аскетизму. Неумение подчиняться кому-либо, в то же время указывает на равнодушие к власти.
  • Значение имени Сири в нумерологии

    Нумерология имени Сири может подсказать не только главные качества и характер человека. Но и определить его судьбу, показать успех в личной жизни, дать сведения о карьере, расшифровать судьбоносные знаки и даже предсказать будущее. Число имени Сири в нумерологии — 3. Девиз имени Сири и троек по жизни: «Сделаю все, чтобы вы обратили на меня внимание!»

    • Планета-покровитель для имени Сири — Юпитер.
    • Знак зодиака для имени Сири — Стрелец.
    • Камни-талисманы для имени Сири — янтарь, аметист, авантюрин, хризопаз, доломит, бриллиант Геркмайера, ляпис лаузрь, морганит, пирит, рубин, розовый сапфир, сардоникс, сугилит, голубой топаз, черный турмалин, цаворит.

    Присутствие «тройки» среди чисел нумерологического ядра указывает на особое видение, позволяющее определить, чего именно недостает миру для совершенства. И настоятельную потребность восполнить этот недостаток, потребность, которая становится основой мотивации и главной движущей силой для каждого шага по жизни.
    «Тройка» в числах имени Сири – Числе Выражения, Числе Души и Числе внешнего облика – определяет наличие творческих способностей, то есть – врожденного умения создавать новое и предрасположенности к занятиям такого рода. Цифра 3 в нумерологии означает наличие явных или скрытых талантов и неординарных способностей. Тройки по имени Сири удачливы, как никто другой. По натуре своей обычно это оптимистичные люди, не опускающие руки даже при столкновении с самыми сложными жизненными испытаниями. Часто они талантливы, легко обучаются любому ремеслу, общительны и нравятся людям, имеют много друзей. Тройку как будто берегут высшие силы. Это число везения и удачливости. Другой стороной характера Тройки является стремление к духовности. Тройка с именем Сири чаще всего богата интеллектом, но очень хитра. Тройка добра, оптимистична, любит путешествовать и философствовать. Тройке трудно сосредоточиться на каком-либо одном занятии, ее рассеянность несет трудности. Любит наслаждаться жизнью, все время пытается испытать удачу. Самый большой страх Тройки по имени Сири — не везде успеть, упустить хорошую возможность. Тройка любит и умеет учиться, потому что любознательна, обладает пытливым умом. Тройка Сири — настоящий борец за справедливость, адвокат для всех знаков зодиака и хороший друг. Порадовать Тройку можно, если предоставить ей полную свободу действий.

    • Влияние имени Сири на профессию и карьеру. Что значит число 3 в выборе рода занятий? Способы профессиональной самореализации для людей, имеющих «тройку» в нумерологическом ядре – бесчисленны, а возможности в этом плане – практически неограниченны. Подходящие профессии: все творческие профессии, особенно писатели, артисты.
    • Влияние имени Сири на личную жизнь. Личная жизнь «тройки» с именем Сири никогда не бывает простой, и очень редко становится «эталоном» гармонии и счастья. Тройки – оптимисты, которые становятся душой компании, для них важно быть в центре внимания. Поэтому им идеально подойдет партнер, который будет смотреть на мир так же, как они сами. Число 3 совместимо с единицами, тройками, девятками и шестерками.

    Планета покровитель имени Сири

    Число 3 для имени Сири значит планету Юпитер. Планета Юпитер наделяет людей с именем Сири оптимизмом. Они уважительно относятся к окружающим и ждут такого же отношения к себе. Люди с именем Сири, как магнит, притягивают к себе счастье и гармонию. Они не напористы, но умеют добиваться своего. Обладатели имени Сири склонны к самокопанию, и это приводит к неплохим результатам. Они достаточно неплохо разобрались в себе и могут верно оценивать личность буквально с первого момента встречи. Понимая, что человек не идеален, они стремятся к самоусовершенствованию, но не требуют того же от других. Заступаются за тех и помогают тем, кто требует помощи или поддержки, бескорыстны, склонны к путешествиям. Хорошо гармонируют носители имени Сири с людьми своего, шестого или девятого типов.

    Знаки зодиака имени Сири

    Для имени Сири подходят следующие знаки зодиака:

  • Знак зодиака Стрелец для имени Сири. У представителей имени Сири и этого знака хорошо развита сила воли, они решительны и слегка воинственны, любят всех поучать. При этом всегда Стрельцы с именем Сири проявляют дружелюбие, они прирожденные оптимисты. Взбесить их может только откровенная ложь, лицемерие и попытки подчинить себе их волю. Обладатели имени Сири свое авторитетное мнение высказывают по поводу и без (и неважно, что его не просили). Владельцы имени Сири Стрельцы рубят правду-матку с такой потрясающей жестокостью, что окружающим немедленно хочется научить Стрельца уму-разуму кулаками, а он искренне не понимает, почему на него обижаются и на дружеские посиделки больше не зовут. Совершенно безответственный человек с именем Сири – постоянные тирады «за поступки надо отвечать» пропускает мимо ушей и до конца жизни не может эту простую истину выучить.
  • Цвет имени Сири

    Жёлтый цвет имени Сири. Люди с именем Сири, носящие желтый цвет, как показывает нумерология, солнечные и позитивные, энергичные и логичные, с ними чувствуешь себя всегда комфортно и уютно. Так как точно знаешь, что они никогда не подставят. Владельцы имени Сири обладают твёрдым характером и практичностью, что вносит некий дискомфорт в семейные отношения. Так как они не привыкли вести расточительный образ жизни и того же требуют и от своих близких людей. Положительные черты характера имени Сири – коммуникабельные, открытые и активные. Отрицательные черты характера для имени Сири – прижимистость и твердолобость.

    Как правильно пишется имя Сири

    В русском языке грамотным написанием этого имени является — Сири. В английском языке имя Сири может иметь следующий вариант написания — Siri.

    Видео значение имени Сири

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    Siri

    Siri icon.png
    Siri запущенный на iPhone 4S
    Siri запущенный на iPhone 4S
    Тип

    Умный помощник программного обеспечения

    Автор

    Siri Inc.

    Разработчик

    Apple Inc.

    Операционная система

    iOS 6

    Языки интерфейса

    английский, французский, немецкий, японский.[1] корейский, китайский, итальянский, испанский

    Первый выпуск

    9 августа 2011

    Аппаратная платформа

    iPhone 5
    IPad 3[2]

    Лицензия

    Проприетарное

    Сайт

    http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html

    Siri (ˈsɪəri,  (рус.) Сири) (англ. Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface) — персональный помощник и вопросно-ответная система, адаптированная для iOS. Данное приложение использует обработку естественной речи, чтобы отвечать на вопросы и давать рекомендации. Siri приспосабливается к каждому пользователю индивидуально, изучая его предпочтения в течение долгого времени.[3]

    Первоначально Siri стало доступно в App Store как приложение для iOS от Siri Inc. Вскоре, 28 апреля 2010 года, Siri Inc. была приобретена Apple Inc..[4] Но ещё до того, как Apple купила Siri, было объявлено, что их программное обеспечение будет доступно для телефонов BlackBerry и телефонов под управлением Android, затем эти планы были отменены из-за покупки.[5]

    Сейчас Siri — неотъемлемая часть iOS 5, iOS 6 и доступна для iPhone 4S[6] и iPhone 5. Также, Siri появилась в iPad третьего и четвертого поколений. Несмотря на это, хакеры смогли приспособить Siri для старых моделей iPhone.[7] 8 ноября 2011 Apple публично заявила, что у неё нет планов на интеграцию Siri в старые модели iPhone, в связи с отсутствием на них чипа фильтрации фонового шума.[8]

    Содержание

    • 1 Финансирование
    • 2 Участие DARPA
    • 3 iPhone приложение
    • 4 Интеграция в iOS
      • 4.1 IPhone 4S
      • 4.2 IPhone 5
    • 5 Научные исследования
    • 6 Поддерживаемые языки
    • 7 Географические ограничения
    • 8 Примечания

    Финансирование

    Siri начал разрабатываться в декабре 2007 года Дагом Китлауссом (CEO), Адамом Чейером и Томом Грюбером, совместно с Норманом Винарским из SRI International. 13 октября 2008 Siri получило финансирование в размере $8,5 миллионов от Menlo Ventures и Morgenthaler Ventures.[9] В ноябре 2009 года группа разработчиков получила дополнительное финансирование в размере $15,5 миллионов от тех же инвесторов, но в этот раз во главе с гонконгским миллионером Ли Цзячэном (Лэй Гасингом).[10] Даг Китлаусс покинул пост CEO после того, как Apple запустила iPhone 4S.[11]

    Участие DARPA

    Для Siri Apple использовала результат 40-летних исследований «Центра Искусственного Интеллекта» (отдела SRI International) финансируемого DARPA. Можно сказать что Siri это усовершенствованное CALO — Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes Program ( (рус.) программа — Познавательный Агент, который учится и организует).

    Siri — это исследование, которое включает комбинированную работу исследовательских групп из Университета Карнеги — Меллон, Массачусетского Университета, Рочестерского Университета, Флоридского Института Познания Человека и Машины, Университета штата Орегон, Университета Южной Калифорнии и Стэнфордского Университета. Эта технология проделала огромный путь начиная с диалога и понимания естественного языка, машинного обучения, очевидного и вероятного рассуждения, онтологии и представления знаний, планирования.[12]

    iPhone приложение

    Siri впервые было запущено как приложение, доступное в App Store, в США. Приложение взаимодействовало с такими сервисами как OpenTable,[13] Google Maps,[14] MovieTickets и TaxiMagic.[15] Используя технологию голосовой идентификации от Nuance Communications и их партнёров, пользователи могли зарезервировать столики в ресторанах, купить билеты в кино или вызвать такси, используя естественный язык для обращения к Siri. Siri была приобретена Apple 28 апреля 2010 года[4] и данное приложение было изъято из App Store и прекратило своё существование 15 октября 2011 года.[16]

    Интеграция в iOS

    IPhone 4S

    Siri был включен в программное обеспечение iPhone 4S 4 октября 2011 года. [17] Siri предполагает диалоговое взаимодействие со многими приложениями, включая напоминания, погоду, акции, передачу сообщений, электронную почту, календарь, контакты, примечания, музыку, часы, веб-браузер и карты.[3] Поддерживается английский (США, Великобритания и Австралия), немецкий, японский и французский языки.[18] В дальнейшем были добавлены китайский, итальянский, корейский и испанские языки.

    IPhone 5

    С запуском новой версии iOS 6. [19] Список нововведений:

    • Сможет рекомендовать рестораны, фильмы, а также бронировать билеты и столики.
    • Предоставлять информации о спортивных играх (счёт, биография, состав, матчи и т. д. )
    • Открывать приложения.
    • Писать в Twitter, Facebook.
    • Давать маршруты по картам.
    • Использовать приложение Apple Store (например, команда «Buy iPhone 5»)

    Научные исследования

    Siri — это разработка Международного Центра Искусственного Интеллекта SRI, является ответвлением финансируемого Управлением Перспективных Исследовательских Программ, описанного как, возможно, самый большой проект искусственного интеллекта на сегодняшний момент.[20]

    Основные технические области Siri сосредотачиваются на диалоговом интерфейсе, распознавании контекста и сервисной делегации.[21]

    Распознавание речи Siri основано на разработках голосовых технологий компании Nuance Communications.[22]

    Действия и ответы Siri основаны на взаимодействии таких партнёров[23] как:

    • OpenTable, André Gayot, Citysearch, BooRah, [Yelp Inc, Yahoo Loca, ReserveTravel и Localeze для ресторанов, деловых вопросов и действий;
    • Eventful, StubHub и LiveKick для разных событий и концертной информации;
    • MovieTickets.com, Rotten Tomatoes и The New York Times для информации о фильмах и рецензиях на них;
    • True Knowledge[24], Bing и WolframAlpha для фактического ответа на вопрос;[25]
    • Bing и Google для веб-поиска.

    Поддерживаемые языки

    Язык[26] Регион Версия iOS
    Английский Соединённые Штаты Америки США 5.0
    Великобритания Великобритания 5.0
    Австралия Австралия 5.0
    Канада Канада 6.0
    Испанский Испания Испания 6.0
    Мексика Мексика 6.0
    Соединённые Штаты Америки США 6.0
    Итальянский Италия Италия 6.0
    Швейцария Швейцария 6.0
    Кантонский Гонконг Гонконг 6.0
    Китайский Китайская Республика Тайвань 6.0
    Китайская Народная Республика Китай 6.0
    Корейский Республика Корея Южная Корея 6.0
    Немецкий Германия Германия 5.0
    Швейцария Швейцария 6.0
    Французский Франция Франция 5.0
    Канада Канада 6.0
    Швейцария Швейцария 6.0
    Японский Япония Япония 5.1

    Географические ограничения

    По состоянию на январь 2012 года, функциональность Siri в большинстве стран ограничена, карты и поисковая система Yelp доступны только в пределах США. Например, в Великобритании на запрос перечислить местные фирмы, проложить маршрут или дать информацию о движении Siri ответит: «Я могу искать фирмы, карты и обозревать движение только в США и при использовании американского английского. Сожалею об этом.»[27]

    Примечания

    1. Apple — Siri — Frequently Asked Questions. Apple Inc. (4 октября 2011). Архивировано из первоисточника 31 августа 2012. Проверено 23 декабря 2011.
    2. Ferra.ru — iOS 6 принесет Siri на iPad, официально
    3. 1 2 iPhone 4S — Ask Siri to help you get things done. Apple. Архивировано из первоисточника 31 августа 2012. Проверено 5 октября 2011.
    4. 1 2 April 28, 2010 BREAKING NEWS: Siri bought by Apple. Scobleizer.com (28 апреля 2010). Проверено 5 октября 2011.
    5. Timothy Hay Siri Inc. Launches ‘Do Engine’ Application For iPhone. Dow Jones Newswire (5 февраля 2010). Архивировано из первоисточника 31 августа 2012. Проверено 9 октября 2011.
    6. Darren Murph «iPhone 4S hands-on!. Engadget (4 октября 2011). Архивировано из первоисточника 31 августа 2012. Проверено 9 октября 2011.
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    Siri (pronounced /ˈsɪəri/) is an intelligent personal assistant, part of Apple Inc.’s iOS, watchOS, macOS, and tvOS operating systems. The assistant uses voice queries and a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Internet services. The software adapts to users’ individual language usages, searches, and preferences, with continuing use. Returned results are individualized.

    Siri is a spin-off from a project originally developed by the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center. Its speech recognitionengine is provided by Nuance Communications, and Siri uses advanced machine learning technologies to function. Its original American, British, and Australian voice actors recorded their respective voices around 2005, unbeknownst of the recordings’ eventual usage in Siri. The voice assistant was released as an app for iOS in February 2010, and it was acquired by Apple two months later. Siri was then integrated into iPhone 4S at its release in October 2011. At that time, the separate app was also removed from the iOS App Store. Siri has become an integral part of Apple’s products, having been adapted into other hardware devices over the years, including newer iPhone models, as well as iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, and Apple TV.

    Siri supports a wide range of user commands, including performing phone actions, checking basic information, scheduling events and reminders, handling device settings, searching the Internet, navigating areas, finding information on entertainment, and is able to engage with iOS-integrated apps. With the release of iOS 10 in 2016, Apple opened up limited third-party access to Siri, including third-party messaging apps, as well as payments, ride-sharing, and Internet calling apps. With the upcoming release of iOS 11, Apple will update Siri’s voices for more clear, human voices, will support follow-up questions and language translation, and additional third-party actions.

    Siri’s original release on iPhone 4S in 2011 received mixed reviews. It received praise for its voice recognition and contextual knowledge of user information, including calendar appointments, but was criticized for requiring stiff user commands and having a lack of flexibility. It was also criticized for lacking information on certain nearby places, and for its inability to understand certain English accents. In 2016 and 2017, a number of media reports have indicated that Siri is lacking in innovation, particularly against new competing voice assistants from other technology companies. The reports concerned Siri’s limited set of features, «bad» voice recognition, and undeveloped service integrations as causing trouble for Apple in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud-based services; the basis for the complaints reportedly due to stifled development, as caused by Apple’s prioritization of user privacy and executive power struggles within the company.

    History

    Origins

    Siri is a spin-out from the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center, and is an offshoot of the DARPA-funded CALO project.[2] It was co-founded by SRI’s Dag Kittlaus, Harry Saddler, Adam Cheyer, and Tom Gruber.

    Development

    Siri’s speech recognition engine is provided by Nuance Communications, a speech technology company.[3] This was not officially acknowledged by Apple nor Nuance for years,[4][5]until Nuance CEO Paul Ricci confirmed the information at a 2011 technology conference.[3] The speech recognition system makes use of sophisticated machine learning techniques, including convolutional neural networks and long short-term memory. Apple’s first notion of a digital personal assistant was originally a concept video in 1987, called the «Knowledge Navigator».

    Voice Actors

    The original American voice of Siri was provided by Susan Bennett in July 2005, unbeknownst that it would eventually be used for the voice assistant.[9] A report from The Verge in September 2013 about voice actors, their work, and machine learning developments, made hints to Allison Dufty as the voice behind Siri,[10][11] though this was disproven when Dufty wrote on her website that she was «absolutely, positively NOT the voice of Siri».[9] Citing growing pressure, Bennett revealed her role as Siri in October, and her claim was proven by Ed Primeau, an American audio forensics expert.[9] Apple has never confirmed the information.[9]

    The original British male voice was provided by Jon Briggs, a former technology journalist. Having discovered that he was the voice of Siri by watching television, he first spoke only about his role in November 2011, also acknowledging his voice work was done «five or six years ago» without knowing the recordings’ final usage form.[12][13]

    The original Australian voice was provided by Karen Jacobsen, a voice-over artist known in Australia for her work as the «GPS girl».[14]

    As part of an interview between all three voice actors and The Guardian, Briggs stated that «The original system was recorded for a US company called Scansoft, who were then bought by Nuance. Apple simply licensed it.»

    Integration

    Siri was originally released as a stand-alone application for the iOS operating system in February 2010, and at the time, the developers were also intending to release Siri for Androidand BlackBerry devices.[15] Two months later, Apple acquired Siri.[16][17][18] On October 4, 2011, Apple introduced the iPhone 4S with their implementation of a beta version of Siri.[19][20] After the announcement, Apple removed the existing standalone Siri app from App Store.[21] TechCrunch wrote that, despite the Siri app’s support for iPhone 4, its removal from App Store might also have had financial incentives for the company, due to providing another reason for customers to upgrade devices.[21] Third-party developer Steven Troughton-Smith, however, managed to port Siri to iPhone 4, though without being able to communicate with Apple’s servers.[22] A few days later, Troughton-Smith, working with an anonymous person nicknamed «Chpwn», managed to fully hack Siri, enabling its full functionalities on iPhone 4 and iPod Touch devices.[23] Additionally, developers were also able to successfully create and distribute legal ports of Siri to any device capable of running iOS 5, though a proxy server was required for Apple server interaction.[24]

    Over the years, Apple has expanded the line of officially supported products, including newer iPhone models,[25] as well as iPad support in June 2012,[26] iPod Touch support in September 2012,[27] Apple TV support, and the standalone Siri Remote, in September 2015,[28] Macsupport in September 2016 alongside macOS Sierra,[29] and HomePod support in June 2017.

    Siri Remote

    Features and options

    Apple offers a wide range of voice commands to interact with Siri, including, but not limited to:[31]

    • Phone actions, such as «Call Sarah», «Read my new messages», «Set the timer for 10 minutes», and «Send email to mom»
    • Check basic information, including «What’s the weather like today?» and «How many dollars are in a Euro?»
    • Schedule events and reminders, including «Schedule a meeting» and «Remind me to»
    • Handle device settings, such as «Take a picture», «Turn on Wi-Fi», and «Increase the brightness»
    • Search the Internet, including «Define…», «Find pictures of…», and «Search Twitter for…»
    • Navigation, including «Take me home», «What’s traffic like on the way home?», and «Find driving directions to…»
    • Entertainment, such as «What basketball games are on today?», «What are some movies playing near me?», and «What’s the synopsis of…?»
    • Engage with iOS-integrated apps, including «Pause Apple Music» and «Like this song»

    Siri also offers numerous pre-programmed responses to amusing questions. Such questions include «What is the meaning of life?», to which Siri may reply «All evidence to date suggests it’s chocolate»; «Why am I here?», to which it may reply «I don’t know. Frankly, I’ve wondered that myself»; and «Will you marry me?», to which it may respond with «My End User Licensing Agreement does not cover marriage. My apologies».[32][33]

    Initially limited to female voices, Apple announced in June 2013 that Siri would feature a gender option, adding a male voice counterpart.[34]

    In September 2014, Apple added the ability for users to speak «Hey, Siri» to enable the assistant without the requirement of physically handling the device.[35]

    In September 2015, the «Hey Siri» feature was updated to include individualized voice recognition, a presumed effort to prevent non-owner activation.[36][37]

    With the announcement of iOS 10 in June 2016, Apple opened up limited third-party developer access to Siri through a dedicated application programming interface (API). The API restricts usage of Siri to engaging with third-party messaging apps, payment apps, ride-sharing apps, and Internet calling apps.[38][39]

    In June 2017, for iOS 11, Apple announced that Siri will support more clear, human voices, will be able to handle follow-up questions, will support language translation, and will open up to more third-party actions, including task management.[40][41] Additionally, users will be able to type to Siri,[42] and a new, privacy-minded «on-device learning» technique will improve Siri’s suggestions by privately analyzing personal usage of different iOS applications.

    Reception

    Siri received mixed reviews during its «beta» release as an integrated part of iPhone 4S in October 2011.

    MG Siegler of TechCrunch wrote that Siri was «great», adding that «The amount of times Siri hasn’t been able to understand and execute my request is astonishingly low». Siegler further praised the potential for Siri after losing the «beta» tag, writing «Just imagine what will happen when Apple partners with other services to expand Siri further. And imagine when they have an API that any developer can use. This really could alter the mobile landscape».[44]

    Writing for The New York Times, David Pogue also praised Siri, writing that it «thinks for a few seconds, displays a beautifully formatted response and speaks in a calm female voice». Pogue praised Siri’s language understanding, stating that «It’s mind-blowing how inexact your utterances can be. Siri understands everything from, “What’s the weather going to be like in Tucson this weekend?” to “Will I need an umbrella tonight?”». Pogue also equally praised Siri’s ability to understand context, using the example of «Once, I tried saying, “Make an appointment with Patrick for Thursday at 3.” Siri responded, “Note that you already have an all-day appointment about ‘Boston Trip’ for this Thursday. Shall I schedule this anyway?” Unbelievable».[45]

    Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica wrote that Apple’s claims of what Siri could do were «bold», and the early demos «even bolder». Cheng wrote that «Though Siri shows real potential, these kinds of high expectations are bound to be disappointed», adding that «Apple makes clear that the product is still in beta—an appropriate label, in our opinion». While praising its ability to «decipher our casual language» and deliver «very specific and accurate result», sometimes even providing additional information, Cheng noted and criticized its restrictions, particularly when the language moved away from «stiffer commands» into more human interactions. One example included the phrase «Send a text to Jason, Clint, Sam, and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud», which Siri interpreted as sending a message to Jason only, containing the text «Clint Sam and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud». She also noted a lack of proper editability, as saying «Edit message to say: we’re at Silver Cloud and you should come find us», generated «Clint Sam and Lee saying we’re having dinner at Silver Cloud to say we’re at Silver Cloud and you should come find us».[46]

    Google’s executive chairman and former chief, Eric Schmidt, conceded that Siri could pose a «competitive threat» to the company’s core search business.[47]

    Siri was criticized by pro-choice abortion organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and NARAL Pro-Choice America, after users found that Siri could not provide information about the location of birth control or abortion providers nearby, sometimes directing users to pro-life crisis pregnancy centers instead.[48][49][50] Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple, told The New York Times that «Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of information, and while it can find a lot, it doesn’t always find what you want», adding «These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better, and we will in the coming weeks».[51] In January 2016, Fast Company reported that, in then-recent months, Siri had begun to confuse the word «abortion» with «adoption», citing «health experts» who stated that the situation had «gotten worse». However, at the time of Fast Company‘s report, the situation had changed slightly, with Siri offering «a more comprehensive list of Planned Parenthood facilities», although «Adoption clinics continue to pop up, but near the bottom of the list.»[52][53]

    Siri has also not been well received by some English speakers with distinctive accents, including Scottish[54] and Americans from Boston or the South.[55]

    In March 2012, Frank M. Fazio filed a class action lawsuit against Apple on behalf of the people who bought iPhone 4S and felt misled about the capabilities of Siri, alleging its failing to function as depicted in Apple’s Siri commercials. Fazio filed the lawsuit in California and claimed that the iPhone 4S was merely a «more expensive iPhone 4» if Siri fails to function as advertised.[56][57] On July 22, 2013, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in San Francisco dismissed the suit but said the plaintiffs could amend at a later time. The reason given for dismissal was that plaintiffs did not sufficiently document enough misrepresentations by Apple for the trial to proceed.

    Perceived lack of innovation

    In June 2016, The Verge‘s Sean O’Kane wrote about the then-upcoming major iOS 10 updates, with a headline stating «Siri’s big upgrades won’t matter if it can’t understand its users». O’Kane wrote that «What Apple didn’t talk about was solving Siri’s biggest, most basic flaws: it’s still not very good at voice recognition, and when it gets it right, the results are often clunky. And these problems look even worse when you consider that Apple now has full-fledged competitors in this space: Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google’s Assistant.»[59] Also writing for The Verge, Walt Mossberg had previously questioned Apple’s efforts in cloud-based services, writing:[60]

    In October 2016, Bloomberg reported that Apple had plans to unify the teams behind its various cloud-based services, including a single campus and reorganized cloud computing resources aimed at improving the processing of Siri’s queries,[61] though another report from The Verge in June 2017 once again called Siri’s voice recognition «bad».[62]

    In June 2017, The Wall Street Journal published an extensive report on the lack of innovation with Siri following competitors’ advancement in the field of voice assistants. Citing the announcement of Amazon’s Alexa as having caused Apple workers’ anxiety levels to have «went up a notch», the Journal wrote that «Today, Apple is playing catch-up in a product category it invented, increasing worries about whether the technology giant has lost some of its innovation edge». The report cites the primary causes as being Apple’s prioritization of user privacy, including randomly-tagged six-month Siri searches, whereas Google and Amazon keep data until actively discarded by the user, and executive power struggles with some employees leaving. Apple declined to comment on the report, while Eddy Cue said that «Apple often uses generic data rather than user data to train its systems and has the ability to improve Siri’s performance for individual users with information kept on their iPhones».

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