7 Ways to Make Siri Smarter
Mar 21, 2013 11:25 AM EDT by For me, the beauty of Siri on the iPhone is this voice-powered assistant’s ability to minimize the number of steps or taps it takes to get things done, whether it’s setting an alarm, finding out who won last night’s game or finding a place to eat. With the iPhone 5S reportedly right around the corner, I wanted to voice my own wish list for adding to Siri’s talents. And if Google or Samsung want to use my ideas to beef up Google Now or S Voice, that’s fine, too.
1. Instant Photo-tagging
Wouldn't it be nice if you fired up the camera on the iPhone and said "Jake's Birthday," and then it created a sub-folder of photos automatically categorized with this title? During the rest of that session, the camera would automatically add pics to this folder until you said something like "End session."
Don't worry if you forget to do all this during shooting; you could organize images into folders after the fact by selecting multiple thumbnails and then speaking the folder name. I'd also love it if the camera let you add captions to photos using your voice, which would make it easier to send them off to Facebook.
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June 6th, 2012 at 6:30 am
The “Settings made simpler” already exist, with the same abilities you listed, in a jailbroken device with a special app. So it is indeed feasible. Also you can say “Play Somebody that I used to know”, Siri will then look into your music library, play it, or if you don’t have it, it will look in the spotify app and play it right from there.
The other ideas are great anyway !
March 22nd, 2013 at 11:49 am
Great ideas, Mark. It would be especially nice if they could make the iPhone 5 completely hands free
simply by giving an audible command “Siri, …” I might even consider keeping
it instead of changing over to the Razr Maxx HD.