“In a quiet server-side update, Apple has given Siri the ability to respond to requests with quotes, notably to suggest that the user is being too long-winded,” Phil Dzikiy reports for iLounge.
“When asking the assistant a question — presumably one that Apple’s servers find too long or difficult to parse,” Dzikiy reports, “Siri responds with William Strunk and Thomas Jefferson quotes alluding to brevity.”
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MacNN reports, “Although Siri is marketed as a built-in component of iOS, in reality the feature won’t work without a connection to Apple’s servers, where the actual interpretation of commands happens. This does however allow Apple to improve Siri without updating iOS, which could take substantially longer. The need to discourage lengthy commands suggests that Apple’s voice recognition system still has trouble deciphering complex phrases.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]