Why is Siri, which has been criticized as “artificially retarded”, still so popular?

As we all know, Apple’s voice assistant Siri is very weak, and Apple’s smart speakers have performed poorly in the market due to many bad reviews of Siri. Why is Siri still loved by people despite its poor functionality?

1. Embarrassing situation

Siri’s low recognition rate, slow feedback, low authority, mismatch between the next sentence and the sentence have been criticized by countless people, and not many people are willing to Ask Siri to do anything. As deep learning technology continues to mature, speech synthesis based on deep neural networks has gradually become a mainstream method in the field of speech synthesis.

2. Upgrades and improvements

Since 2017, Siri has been updated more abundantly, adding real-time translation capabilities that support English, French, German and other languages. At the same time, Siri's intelligence has been further improved to support contextual predictions. After the upgrade, Siri will have a more natural and humane voice. Siri's usability has long been criticized. It is often criticized for being "artificially retarded". Judging from this year, Apple hopes to get rid of the hat of mental retardation and at least communicate like a real person.

3. Add new skills

In iOS 12, the new skill "shortcut" introduced by Siri allows users to "add" the applications or functions they want to define to Siri , then perform quick actions on the app via Siri. Siri can reportedly access weather, navigation, and more. However, it did not introduce the commonly used functions of Android phones, such as voice control to wake up WeChat and send red envelopes. Siri will remind you to text a colleague if you're late for a meeting.

At present, relying solely on the above-mentioned demonstration functions is not enough to help Siri eliminate the historical label of "artificial intelligence obstacle". After all, in the Chinese market, the artificial intelligence assistants of many Android phones can already support the awakening of almost all localized applications, including scenarios such as sending red envelopes on WeChat.