Everything new with Siri in iOS 12
Siri has received a wealth of new skills in iOS 12 from new voices to new areas of knowledge. AppleInsider digs in to find everything new with Siri inside of iOS 12.
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Siri
Andrew O'Hara
New photos show depths of Apple's expanding Mesa, Ariz. data center
Photos shot this week show the seldom-seen interior of Apple's two-year-old data center in Mesa, Ariz., instrumental to services like iCloud, Siri, and iMessage.
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Roger Fingas
Siri multi-user support could offer personalized responses to different voices
Apple is considering ways to allow Siri to provide personalized results for specific users speaking to it, by making the digital assistant recognize the user's identity, with the added possibility of limiting queries to just one user's voice.
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Malcolm Owen
New Siri Shortcuts beta introduces limited HomeKit integration
Apple on Friday released a new beta version of its Shortcuts app to developers for testing, and while the update is light on big feature additions, some users who are concurrently running the latest build of iOS 12 beta have reported limited HomeKit integration.
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AppleInsider Staff
Siri improved small business name recognition by using local language models
Improvements to the way Siri recognizes names of small businesses and local points of interest are due to the use of language models designed for specific locations, Apple's Machine Learning Journal reveals, helping the virtual assistant understand local names for nearby places.
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Apple's new India chief pursues aggressive strategy to revive cold iPhone sales
Despite recent claims to the contrary, the new head of Apple's India operations, ex-Singapore executive Michel Coulomb, is reportedly pursuing an aggressive strategy to save iPhone sales in the country, which have dwindled to just 1 percent of the local phone market.
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New patent lawsuit targets Apple over voice control tech in Siri- & HomeKit-enabled devices
A fellow Californian company, SpeakWare, on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the iPhone maker of violating a U.S. voice control patent.
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Digital assistant test shows Apple's Siri is improving, lags behind Google Assistant
Apple's digital assistant Siri continues to lag behind the Google Assistant, a group test reports, one which also reveals improvements in properly understanding queries and providing correct responses has generally improved across all digital assistants.
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How to view live sports scores on the Siri Watch Face in watchOS 5
Sports fans can now view live sports scores of favorite teams, right from the Siri watch face on Apple Watch in watchOS 5. AppleInsider dives in to see what it can do, and how it works.
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Victor Marks
Stephen Silver
Mike Wuerthele
