> If there's a way to control apps, navigate options, perform useful dictation, I haven't found it. I can barely get Siri to reliably start and stop audio playback.
Ok. Google Assistant is available for iPhone. I'll try it. Thank you.
Continuing my rant...
I know that Siri is impaired by choices Apple's made wrt to privacy or some such.
But why does local voice recognition fail so often? Like while hiking or I'm in the basement. Surely some hybrid is possible. Does Siri really need network access to process a stop playback command? (I do fuss with the Voice Control features every few months, to see if things have improved.)
Warning, idea incoming:
I want the ¡Tchkung! voice interface. Pops, clicks, buzzes, Looney Tunes sounds effects. Why are we limited to just speech recognition? Why can't I beatbox to control my phone?
In the 80s, there was a comic who'd straight read serious writing, adding sound effects for the punctuation. Hysterical (at the time). Sorry, can't remember name. But I want to make sounds for punctuation, backspace, back one word, newline, etc.
Counterpoint: I recently switched from Android to iOS. On Android, Google Assistant and the likes were always the first apps I deleted. Google is just not a company that I trust at all with my personal data. On the iPhone, I have Siri enabled because I have the expectation that my personal data does not leave the phone when I use it with Siri. So when you say:
> I know that Siri is impaired by choices Apple's made wrt to privacy or some such.
For me it's the other way around. Without those choices, I would not be willing to use Siri at all.
I don't think Google assistant on the iPhone will be anywhere close to as good as it on Android for the type of usage your looking for.
Having said that, I wouldn't give up on Siri - she has improved quite a bit from just last year in terms of answering questions. I'd be surprised if they aren't exploring ways to control your phone as well.
Continuing my rant...
I know that Siri is impaired by choices Apple's made wrt to privacy or some such.
But why does local voice recognition fail so often? Like while hiking or I'm in the basement. Surely some hybrid is possible. Does Siri really need network access to process a stop playback command? (I do fuss with the Voice Control features every few months, to see if things have improved.)
Warning, idea incoming:
I want the ¡Tchkung! voice interface. Pops, clicks, buzzes, Looney Tunes sounds effects. Why are we limited to just speech recognition? Why can't I beatbox to control my phone?
In the 80s, there was a comic who'd straight read serious writing, adding sound effects for the punctuation. Hysterical (at the time). Sorry, can't remember name. But I want to make sounds for punctuation, backspace, back one word, newline, etc.