{"id":7394,"date":"2012-06-20T21:12:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T05:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=7394"},"modified":"2012-06-29T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T19:37:51","slug":"tiananmen-square-siri-is-silent-on-the-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/tiananmen-square-siri-is-silent-on-the-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiananmen Square? Siri is silent on the matter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/siri-Tiananmen-Square.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7395\" title=\"siri Tiananmen Square\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/siri-Tiananmen-Square-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/siri-Tiananmen-Square-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/siri-Tiananmen-Square.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>At the recent World Wide Developers Conference, one of the new feature shown off\u00a0 the <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2012\/06\/11\/apple-updates-siri-for-ios6-cars-languages-games-sports-and-yes-ipad\/\">expansion of Siri\u2019s language capabilities<\/a> to Mandarin and Cantonese.\u00a0 Must reviews are fairly mixed; noting the sounds is mechanical and comprehension is limited to fairly basic sentences. Tienanmen Square.\u00a0 From VentureBeat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As China Real Time says, Siri responds to questions like \u201cDo you know about the Tiananmen incident?\u201d with the fairly bizarre:\u00a0\u201cI couldn\u2019t find any appointments related to \u2018Do you know about Tiananmen.\u201d And another attempt, \u201cWhat happened on June 4, 1989?\u201d received an even more odd answer:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m sorry, the person you are looking for is not in your address book.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are also reports the if you try to ask for directions to Tiananmen Square, Siri will not know how to get there.\u00a0 Same with other political sensitive sites.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m not surprised though.\u00a0 Most companies have to compromise to function in China.\u00a0 This is just yet another case.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=7c84e1cf-6f01-4711-98e0-027735d038f7\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Why MS Cortana is a minor threat to Apple&#8217;s Siri, for now.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/why-ms-cortana-is-a-minor-threat-to-apples-siri-for-now\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why MS Cortana is a minor threat to Apple&#8217;s Siri, for now.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How to get Siri voice to read notification banners through jailbreak.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/how-to-get-siri-voice-read-notification-banners-jailbreak\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to get Siri voice to read notification banners through jailbreak.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Google Now to compete with Siri, and it might be better through prediction\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/google-now-to-compete-with-siri-and-i-might-be-better-through-prediction\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Now to compete with Siri, and it might be better through prediction<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A potential Android equivalent to Siri called Robin. 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As China Real Time says, Siri responds to questions&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/tiananmen-square-siri-is-silent-on-the-matter\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1397,755],"tags":[1532,1405,1737],"class_list":["post-7394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-2","category-ios","tag-censorship","tag-siri","tag-tiananmen-square"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/siri-Tiananmen-Square.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-1Vg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7456,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions\/7456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}