? Smarter Siri
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Apple’s voice-driven personal assistant, Siri, is another area where Apple had been dogged in the months running-up to WWDC 2018. In fact, the company has been dogged for Siri’s lackluster performance for years now, though it wasn’t until earlier this year when the company announced it would be assembling a team of top-shelf engineers to bolster Siri with future software updates.
At WWDC 2018, Apple unveiled the first-fruits of its new Siri ambitions, which takes the form of a new iOS app and AI-based framework dubbed Siri Shortcuts.
Meant to simplify your daily workflow and streamline the process of scheduling and carrying-out tasks, Siri Shortcuts is a powerful new tool that enables you to handle many things, instantly and efficiently, using just a single voice command.
Users can, for instance, create a shortcut for “heading home” (from work, class, etc.) When initiated by being spoken into the device, this single, spoken command can perform a wide-range of pre-determined tasks simultaneously, such as pulling up the route home in Maps, turning on your favorite Apple Music playlist, sending a text to your family back at the house, or even ordering food for pick-up on your way.
It’s not entirely clear if Siri, herself, has gotten smarter from a language comprehension standpoint as pursuant with these updates — but Siri Suggestions is a clear step in the right direction for now..