I’m sorry, it’s Siri: creating content with Siri

January 17, 2012 7:27 pm Published by

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Like many people I’ve recently bought an iPhone 4S and as you probably know one of the features it has is the personal assistant Siri.

To be honest I’m a bit mixed about Siri because on one hand he (I’m using the British English version of Siri which is a man’s voice) on one hand works great for setting an alarm clock or calling a phone number then on the other hand he doesn’t really work very well when I’m trying to find information on the Internet.

I’m constantly been told by him that I can only use a function if I’m searching in US English looking for U.S.-based businesses and one thing that I can’t get it to work at all for is to remind me to do something when I arrive or leave a place and keeps telling me that he can do it but I can’t get it to work.

One thing that I’ve also found Siri’s good for is dictating notes. He seems to get the dictation pretty much spot on which is a good thing definitely. Recently though I had the idea of using, Siri or at least testing Siri, as a new workflow to create content.

The workflow goes something like this::

Create mind map
Dictate article to a text document
Save document to Dropbox
Edit article the following day on a computer
Submit article to Article Samurai

While that sounds like a pretty good workflow to test I’m not sure that Siri’s up to it. And I also had the idea that since I’ve got the WordPress app on my iPhone I would be able to dictate an article to Siri like I’m doing at the moment, and then edit the article before submitting or submitting the article in draft mode before the editing it later on the computer and that’s what I’m just testing at the moment.

I’m going to post both what Siri thinks I said as well as the edited article and you’ll be up to judge yourself at least in this first iteration of the process.

Be interesting to see how it turns out, I’ve got a feeling that it’s not hearing me, it’s not understanding.

And I’m not sure whether it understands my accent very well, I am not sure why.

Above: quick edit of text dictated to Siri. Normally I’d edit it more to create a better article, but this should give an idea of what I (think) I said. And below: what Siri THINKS I said.

Like many people I’ve recently bought an iPhone for S and as you properly know one of the features it has is the personal assistant Siri.

To be honest I’m a bit mixed about Siri because on one hand he bracket I’m using the British English version of Siri wouldWhich is a man’s voice) on one hand he works great for setting an alarm clock or calling a phone number then on the other hand he doesn’t really work very well when I’m trying to find information on the Internet I’m constantly been told by end of I can only use that function if I’m searching in US English forward U.S.-based businesses and one thing that Ican’t get it to work at all for is to remind me to do something when I arrived will leave the place and keeps telling me that he can do it but I can’t get it to work.

One thing that I’ve also found series could fall it is dictating notes. He seems to get the dictation pretty much spot on which is Sir a good thing definitely. Recently though I had theidea of using Siri or at least testing Siri it as a new workflow to create content.

The weather Phleger something like this.

Great mind map
Dictate article to a text document
Save document to drumbox
Eddied article the following day ona computer
Submit article to article samurai

While that sounds like a pretty good workflow to test I’m not sure that series up to it. And I also had the idea that since I’ve got the WordPress app on my iPhoneI would be able to dictate an article is to Siri like I’m doing at the moment, and then edit the article before submitting or submitting the article in draft mode before the editing it later on the computer and that’s what I’m just testing at the moment.

I’m going to post both what Sirithings I said as well as the edit article and you’ll be up to judge yourself at least in this first iteration of the process.

Dinnerhouse can return out I’ve got a feeling that it’s not heating my it’s not understanding

And I’m not sure whether it understand stand my accent very well I am not sure why.

OK, I think the result isn’t bad, although I struggled to work out what I’d said in places and could have done with the audio to double check.I’ll be testing this during this week and see if I can improve on the results as I can rattle a 300+ word article in no time at all using this method.

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2 Comments

  • Graham says:

    I have a lot of weather phleghers like that too but use Dragon Dictation for it 🙂

  • admin says:

    And how does it cope with a scouse accent Graham!?

    I can simplify the workflow dictating straight to Evernote, which I’ll test out next. That way I don’t even need to hit save 🙂