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Us Brits got more or less stiffed on the more useful features of Siri — no business look-ups or maps, plus it could barely understand us most of the time. It seems that’s going to change a bit with new and improved Siri in iOS 6.
Cnet did a little test on the iOS 6 beta and found that we’ll finally get business, or at least pub, lookups using Apple’s new maps; whether it’ll understand “give me beer” we don’t know, yet. We’ll also get traffic, directions home and football scores out of Siri — frankly that’s a colossal step up already, compared to the broken promise we got here in the UK.
I’m hoping we’ll get everything our American cousins get out of Siri — maybe then it’ll actually be useful, but probably not. At least it can launch apps now, right? [Cnet]
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From a friend running the dev beta, you have to ask about “Soccer” :-\
Argh, no way. That’s simply not cool.
Arrrrgh – see below.
“We’ll also get traffic, directions home and football scores out of Siri” – Hopefully they will teach the dumb bitch the difference between Football and American Handegg
Sorry, always used to do comments like this on Giz US, old habits die hard.
I was wearing a London Irish rugby shirt last time I was over in Florida, as I got into the airport an American said “it’s almost a real football team”
Regardless to say I went into a huge rant about how it was a RUGBY team and how rugby is so much better than handegg.
Can confirm “give me beer” and “I need a beer” both came back with a list of local bars, Local searches so far seem to be working ok, even when asking for a “good” local Chinese restaurant it found them and sorted by rating.
Awesome — does it work with drunken, slurred speech though?
Works up here in Scotland. That is a pretty close comparison.
I’ll let you know tomorrow morning! It seemed to cope with me saying “remind me at 9am of all the stupid things I did when I was drunk” – 9am came, and I hung my head in shame.
Wonder how much UK football it will cover? I know in the keynote they mentioned English premier league. Wonder if Scottish football and other leagues will get in there?
Not that theres ever any exciting football results in this neck of the woods mind you.
Oh by the way, First post on giz UK. Hello everyone!
Welcome along Joel!
Hurr durr, Gizmodo is slow.
Tim Cook said in the keynote that local search was going “across the world”. The UK is one of Apple’s major countries (hence why Siri had British English from the beginning). So obviously local search is coming to the UK in iOS6.
I thought it was interesting Apple had to ditch Google to do it though.
That’s true.
I’ve noticed on the Beta that Siri’s British voice is muffled compared to that of the iOS5 voice. It’s just not as clear as before. Fingers crossed that Apple tidys that up.
When Siri first came out didn’t Apple try and stop the guy who did the voice from saying anything about it? Maybe they forgot to full remove the gag before re-recording him.