Maybe the handset's microphone wasn't picking up his voice well enough to decipher his commands accurately. Maybe it needs to "learn" the speaker's voice over time to deliver better results.
Let's issue some apologetics for TellMe: maybe it's tripping over the Aussie accent. Siri doesn't miss a beat, while TellMe fails every time, often with hilarious results.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. Using Siri and TellMe simultaneously, an Australian user tries to create a meeting, send a text, check the time in Perth, and play songs by a certain artist. Completely functional, been there for a year."Ĭan you really just pick up one of these Windows phones and use it right out of the box in the way Mundie claims? Not if the results of a video comparing TellMe versus Siri are any indication. You can query anything through Bing by just saying the words. You could take these Windows phones and pick them up and say, 'Text Eric,' and it'll say, 'What do you want to say?' and it transcribes it. At least as a technological capability, you could argue that Microsoft has had a similar capability in Windows phones for more than a year. "TellMe facility's been in the Windows 7 Phone (sic) for more than a year! I just think that people are infatuated with Apple announcing it. Here are Mundie's remarks when asked about Siri, proving for the 65,536th time that Microsoft Doesn't Get It: Google has already played the "yawn" card, and now Microsoft's Craig Mundie has joined the fray during an interview with Forbes. As with all new technologies developed by or associated with Apple, competitors are stumbling over one another to dismiss Siri.
0 kommentar(er)
