[setquk]

Siri is still half deaf and tries to send me to the chip shop when I ask it to send a message and they have a ridiculous amount of budget behind that so probably not.

At the moment our technology is like Zorg’s desk in Fifth Element. Stuffed full of toys but ultimately will let you down too often to be relied upon.

[antongribok]

"like Zorg’s desk in Fifth Element"... What a great analogy!

For those that don't know the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krcNIWPkNzA

(I think this is my favorite Gary Oldman character.)

[imglorp]

Google no better. You still can't "send my wife a Slack message" or "read me the last SMS received" or even "send a hangouts message to Bob".

Some of the integrations are willfully missing for obvious business reasons.

[arethuza]

"send me to the chip shop"

Do you have an accent by any chance - pretty much all voice recognition technology (Android, Apple, cars...) appears to be utterly flummoxed by my fairly mild Scottish accent.

[Edit: to be fair, my accent is probably fairly mild by Scottish standards, not compared to RP].

[hondadriver]

Must be it, a golden oldy about Scottish speech recognition (2010): https://youtu.be/NMS2VnDveP8

[arethuza]

I have to stop myself posting that every time the subject comes up (I know what it is without opening the link) :-)

[setquk]

I’ve got a fairly heavy London accent.

[arethuza]

Maybe we should join forces and found a voice technology testing company!

[Traubenfuchs]

This. What are the people in this thread talking about? Siri and Alexa mess up way too much.