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You can also set relationships within your contacts, which can come in handy if you want to be able to say, “Send a message to Mom,” rather than saying her name. Information related to businesses like restaurants or retail stores is likely to come from Yelp, although restaurant reservations are through OpenTable. The four English choices are Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Water shortages happen in the United States, too — many states have programs to assist the disadvantaged with obtaining enough water and paying their water and sewer bills. For instance, if someone backed out of a meeting, CALO could assess whether they were vital enough to warrant canceling and rescheduling. Figuring out the total amount of gold that has been produced by man is a little harder. Excerpted from OUT OF OFFICE by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen. Part 1: How to get and set up all the Office 365 components. That’s nice. Can we get back to work now? After this, you can say things like “Send myself message,” and it’ll know to send a message to you, or whatever contact you chose. Apple tweaked this app into the Siri we know today.

Siri actually lost some capabilities upon integration with iOS, as it used to have access to far more Web sites and services than Apple has paired with to date. Another SRI International project called Vanguard created a prototype assistant for a smartphone, but one with nowhere near CALO’s capabilities. But it gained other skills, such as better integration with iPhone’s built-in features, multilingual capabilities and an audible voice. The more you work with it and make corrections when you’re misinterpreted, the better it’s supposed to get at understanding what you mean. Our eyes are comfortable until we get to around 3,500 lumens. Those are the only settings explicitly for Siri, but there are other things you can control, like how it interprets names from your contacts. Your selection affects how Siri interprets your accent and instructions. You can edit your own Phone contact with the instructions from above, and under “add field” choose “Related People” and it will give you a list of choices like “parent,” “mother,” “father,” etc. Once you have added one relation, you no longer have to do “add field,” but can go to the bottom of your list of relations under “Edit” and add new ones.

If you want to send a text message, and you have multiple contacts with similar names, Siri supplies a list of choices. You also need to give Siri your identity by setting “My Info” to your own contact information from your Phone app contacts list. Unlike a search engine that returns long raw lists of links related to keywords you select, Siri is designed to interpret your request, hone in on what it thinks you want, and perform actions to give you a more limited but more correct amount of data or services in return. It had access to a large amount of data via various Web sites, and could use these sites’ application program interfaces (APIs) to tap into any services they offered. Most voice-recognition systems in the wild are like the ones you’ve probably dealt with when calling a large company on the telephone — they only understand a very limited vocabulary.