Apple's new iPad Pro benchmarks demonstrate impressive tablet AI performance

globby said:

What users want to know is, does this mean Apple's dictation will no longer be terrible? That it will finally output that makes sense grammatically and contextually?

Or does this just mean it will produce more garbage dictation but much faster than before?

I suppose if you and one other person want to know this then it's technically "users" but you make it sound like that's the key concern with everyone. Personally, as someone that uses diction often, I can't say that I've ever had an issue with it worth remembering. I even still use the original setup of the double tapping of the fn key to initiate dictation  despite macOS and my Mac having a dedicated key on the top row as the default.

Using my iPhone, I find the dictation quite good, with words, grammar, and punctuation. Speaking at a reasonable rate and clearly, obviously, makes a difference, as with any dictation input method. I have very few problems with Siri dictation. 

Xed said:

globby said:

What users want to know is, does this mean Apple's dictation will no longer be terrible? That it will finally output that makes sense grammatically and contextually?

Or does this just mean it will produce more garbage dictation but much faster than before?

I suppose if you and one other person want to know this then it's technically "users" but you make it sound like that's the key concern with everyone. Personally, as someone that uses diction often, I can't say that I've ever had an issue with it worth remembering. I even still use the original setup of the double tapping of the fn key to initiate dictation  despite macOS and my Mac having a dedicated key on the top row as the default.

Wow you seem to be the rare breed since I do not use it either since it makes so many errors.  I expect Siri to be able to accurately record commands and words at a low error rate of 1-2% but my experience is that’s it’s about 10x higher than that and that makes it slightly better than worthless.   It’s very disappointing that after all these years Siri is still not very good, seems like it was a project Apple lost interest in which is a shame since they had a large lead at one point.   Hopefully with Apple’s new committed to AI Siri may finally become what it could have been all along and even better. 

libertyandfree said:

Xed said:

globby said:

What users want to know is, does this mean Apple's dictation will no longer be terrible? That it will finally output that makes sense grammatically and contextually?

Or does this just mean it will produce more garbage dictation but much faster than before?

I suppose if you and one other person want to know this then it's technically "users" but you make it sound like that's the key concern with everyone. Personally, as someone that uses diction often, I can't say that I've ever had an issue with it worth remembering. I even still use the original setup of the double tapping of the fn key to initiate dictation  despite macOS and my Mac having a dedicated key on the top row as the default.

Wow you seem to be the rare breed since I do not use it either since it makes so many errors.  I expect Siri to be able to accurately record commands and words at a low error rate of 1-2% but my experience is that’s it’s about 10x higher than that and that makes it slightly better than worthless.   It’s very disappointing that after all these years Siri is still not very good, seems like it was a project Apple lost interest in which is a shame since they had a large lead at one point.   Hopefully with Apple’s new committed to AI Siri may finally become what it could have been all along and even better. 

On a iPhone 11 Pro and a iPad Pro third generation no problem with dictation 90% of the time.

My guess is that the extra GPU oomph required to drive the new display is (not coincidentally) the primary reason for the improvement from previous models.