When Apple introduced Siri in 2011 it was pretty cool. As users, we could start asking our iPhone to do some things, such as scheduling appointments, alarms or doing internet searches, but that is no longer enough in 2016. Now it is the competition who is taking a step forward and Crab It's getting a bit stuck, but the good news is that Apple is fully aware of this and is preparing to release a major update that could see the light in less than two weeks at WWDC 2016.
Last year, Apple bought the UK company VocalIQ and many sources say that Tim Cook and company thought their technology was going to be so impressive that they wanted to acquire it to avoid it being launched as a smartphone application or another company was ahead of them. Those sources also suggest that Apple's new virtual assistant will be much more robust and capable than all the virtual assistants that exist today such as Cortana or Google Assistant.
Siri could get her crown back this year
One of the things that will make the new version of Siri a superior virtual assistant is that VocalIQ has tested its product and those of the competition using natural colloquial language techniques just as humans would speak. In numbers, the VocalIQ product achieved a 90% success rate understanding what they were asking him in questions like «Find me a local Italian restaurant that offers Wi-Fi and has no parking«. On the other hand, the competition, such as the current version of Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, and Cortana, were only able to understand and provide valid results 20% of the time.
As I write this data, it seems to me such an important qualitative leap that I have reasonable doubts that this will see the light this year. But many rumors claim that Apple will launch a smart speaker this summer and this version of Siri would be a very important selling point, so anything is possible. Hopefully the rumors are true and we'll see the new version of Siri on June 13.
I would like Siri to be offline ... (because when you run out of data it goes like hell ... ..) that would be a hoot and that it has the option oyesiri on devices like the iPhone 6 and the iPhone SE ... oyesiri without power, you have a choice to choose to put it or not
Those two things would be a hoot !!
Totally agree with Rafael. Especially when it comes to improving offline capacity
If they launched an offline version, it should be very basic, and it would surely consume a lot of both storage and CPU resources ... Not really convenient.
It does not have to consume resources and CPU, since it is like in online but offline version (besides that it would not weigh so much since we can say little, call such, do this, set the alarm, some joke etc), if it weighed 100 megabytes in offline mode I wouldn't mind losing that capacity at all.
It is the same as the offline Google translator, you download the language pack you want and read it, for example you already have a husband in English in the offline environment and copy!
That would be cool, if Apple will launch a basic offline mode, how to call, set alarm, messages, notifications, I'm already satisfied with that!
Regards!!