Why is Siri Useless to me :(
I am located in Bogota, Colombia and bought the iPhone the day it was released here. This is my first iPhone and it's an incredible gadget, now I can't live without it!
One of the things that really made me buy an iPhone this year was Siri. Unfortunelty, for me and probably anyone else not living in the US, Siri falls short of expectation, by a 1000000 miles.
The reasons: It doesn't know anything in Colombia, it doesn't speak Spanish, it doesn't understand accents, it gets confused easily. Now, English is my first language, but I speak spanish everyday, be it company names, friend's names, road names, and a bunch of other names. And it just doesn't understand what I'm saying about 70% of the time. I actually have to becareful not to say somethjing I know it won't understand. For example my carrier is called Movistar, and whenever I ask Siri to call Movistar it starts to dial my SISTER, I'm like UGHHH you idiot machine.
About the only thing it can do right is set up appointments (without using specific names in spanish), and call some people (whose names are internationally recognizable). It used to be able to tell me the time, but for some weird reason now whenever I ask "What time it is", it responds with "Sorry Name, I can't provide directions in Calle 12," and I'm like *** are you talking about 😟
Siri is useless and I hope it can one day work the way I need it to work. The end.
App Store-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
