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jbverschoor on July 27, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Siri records fights, doctor’s appointments, and se...

The thing is, I don’t even want siri to do anything smart.

It needs to: dial a number, and keep a lot of frequently dialed people so it doesn’t think I meant someone else

Set the alarm / timer

Understand the street I want to navigate to.

The whole smart thing, looking up things on the internet or contextualized answers don’t work, and they’re frustrating as hell.

Also, I want Siri to work offline. So basically I want voice recognition with a short set of instructions I’m happy to memorize.

linuxftw on July 27, 2019 [–]

Sadly, most phones used to have this exact technology before the 'ok, google' stuff became ubiquitous. My older android did exactly these things and it was great. I could even send text messages that weren't terrible.

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