“When we put Siri through its paces during our iPhone 4S review, we came away with a mixture of bemusement and optimism,” Jacqui Cheng reports for Ars Technica. “The service is still in beta and has its rough patches, but it’s pretty decent at performing Web searches and other basic phone tasks, such as setting up appointments, making reminders, and text dictation.”
“But one huge caveat to Siri is that it requires an active Internet connection in order to function,” Cheng reports. “Apple sends Siri voice data up to its own data centers for processing and the sends the results back down to your phone.”
“Because of this, we decided to find out how much data a typical Siri user might expect to use in an average month,” Cheng reports. “We carefully watched our data usage while performing 11 different queries through Siri, split between local phone tasks and tasks that required lookups from the Internet. We also performed four dictation tasks… In total, our 11 queries added up to 693.6KB, or an average of 63KB per query.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s nice to see that even heavy Siri use tops out under 30 MB per month, but it would’t matter if it was 300 MB/mo. – we can’t live without Siri now.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward Weber” for the heads up.]
yet another “girl” going to our pockets
Good news for capped data plans, but still nice to have a grandfathered unlimited. Probably won’t have it when 4G plans start rolling out for the next iPhone.
Obviously, Siri isn’t sending actual audio data. Apparently, it does speech recognition locally, then sends the resulting text (a very short blip) and receives similarly short answer.
Yeah.
Talk about your killer app!
Has anyone seen someone else using Siri out in the wild?
I have yet to.
Would you choose to have a blowjob in the open?
My daddy told me many years ago when I was just 14, never turn down a BJ.
And my friend’s dad told me as I was going off to college to “get all you can, while you can”.
And, I’ve lived by that credo ever since…..
That depends on what your definition of out in the open is…..
This is probably to avoid background noise interference.
Gentlemen, please…
Vlingo is a nice alternative for us iPhone 4 users
Vlingo is a nice alternative for us iPhone 4 users. MDN really?? Can’t live without?
My dad uses siri all the time and I am amazed at what it can do. I could see myself using it in the car a lot. Send emails and create reminders. I’m always thinking of things I need to do while I am driving.