Could anyone enlighten me how does Siri recognise this sentence for Pinterest?
Pinterest: Find specific ideas you've saved: "Hey Siri, find women's
fashion Pins on Pinterest." https://www.imore.com/siri-apps-faq
I suspect its using INSearchForPhotosIntentHandling since the sentence has the closest reference to photos. The second thing I suspect is the use of Custom Vocabulary by swapping out "photo" with "Pins".
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sirikit/registering_custom_vocabulary_with_sirikit
These are my current speculations for now, but I would like some clarity on this.
Use Case
I have an app that is centered around food reviews and I am hoping to integrate Siri to assist in Searching for food.
An example command:
"Hey Siri, find Japanese food in MY_APP."
"Hey Siri, find Japanese food reviews in MY_APP."
My keywords could be Food or Food Reviews or Reviews.
Siri process the request for your app based on the Intent that is supported by the app. There are only limited categories that is supported by Siri now.
So the siri know the vocabulary for these categories and it also uses your apps custom vocabulary to process the user given string to call the corresponding Intent from your extension.
IMO, you can consider reviews as notes and support INSearchForNotebookItemsIntentHandling by modifying the siri vocabulary.
Or the best way is to write to apple to add your corresponding domain in the siri's list of domains
Related
I'm thinking a lot about how Siri could improve the UX of my App.
I'm coding an app dedicated to fitness, to log your workouts and your personal records.
I would like to let the user use Siri to use features of my App, but I don't really understand if it's possible or not. I read the documentation but it's not very clear for me, I don't know if Siri is limited to "start / stop / pause / resume a workout" or if we can do more.
( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sirikit/workouts )
I would like to add things like that:
"Hey Siri, what's my personal record for deadlift?"
"Hey Siri, log 230 reps for my workout of the day"
"Hey Siri, what is the workout of the day?"
Could you tell me if it's possible to do that? Is it possible to connect Siri with your app and your database / functions?
The possible actions that Siri can initiate (the "intents") are pre-defined by Apple. From https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sirikit:
SiriKit defines the types of requests—known as intents—that users can
make. Related intents are grouped into domains to make it clear which
intents you might support in your app. For example, the messages
domain has intents for sending messages, searching for messages, and
marking messages as read or unread.
I'm integrating sirikit to my application.ie, searching flights which might come under ride booking category I guess.
My requirement is simple. If the user asks the Siri, "Hey Siri, search flights for delhi using my app". it will open my app's particular screen where I have the search screen(view controller).
For achieving that, I went through the sirikit implementation apple document.
What I have tried:
I configured my project with siri capability.
Added an intent extension(obj c language).
Requested siri authorization in appdelegate.
Added String to IntentsSupported in intent info plist.
From here, I need some clarifications and help. I was asked to Set the value of each item to the class name of the intent in the document. While adding intent extension, an intenthandler class file was added. what value should I add to items in info plist there?
When I say "Translate English to Spanish" Siri opens the app Google Translate.
How does Siri know to launch this app and is it possible to register your app for certain keywords with Siri?
Usually you can open an app telling Siri something like:
"Open [APP NAME]"
My guess
In your case I guess Siri is not interpreting the sentence. When you say Translate English to Spanish Siri does try to understand what action should take and since no action with an hight Matching Rate is found then Siri tries to open the App having a name equals to the first word of your sentence.
Test 1
In Italian language the app is named Traduttore. When I say Traduci dall'italiano all'inglese (Translate English to Spanish) Siri does NOT open the translator because Traduttore does not match Traduci.
Test 2
If I say: Musica dall'italiano all'inglese (Music italian to english) which is not a real command, Siri does open the Music app.
Siri and third parties apps
Right now the interaction between Siri and third parties apps is pretty limited, however maybe in the future Apple will provide the tools for a deeper interaction.
Maybe something like what is happening with HomeKit where Apple created an interface to make Siri and Home Devices to talk each other.
You should look at Siri's custom vocabulary.
At the moment it is limited to your App's name and Apple specified domains e.g. Workouts or Ride Booking
But if you're lucky enough that your application falls within those categories you can map some more app specific terminology.
For example, if you had a rock climbing application, Ascent, you could start with a voice command similar to "Hey Siri, start climb" rather than "Hey Siri, start workout with Ascent"
All of your localized vocab choices should be placed into their appropriate language-specific project directories (.lproj).
My app got rejected due to using other platform names and got the message:
3.1 - Apps or metadata that mentions the name of any other mobile platform will be rejected
The other platform names include Facebook, Skype, iTunes, Google Play, etc. I cannot omit these names as users are buying vouchers for these specific names.
Is there any way around this?
No, there is no way around this. I've seen people try putting the words into their screenshots rather than their description, and try writing lots of description text in the hope Apple don't notice. Both times they got caught. The only thing – that I would really not recommend – is to amend your description after Apple approval.
You say the other platform names "include" Facebook and Skype, which are probably OK. You might find it easiest just to remove the worst offenders, as it were – Android, for example, won't ever get through.
I would like to add a feature to my RSS Reader that i am making that lets a user put in a link (eg. user inputs apple.com) and it shows them a list of feeds for that website like "apple hot news, apple developer" and so on. if anyone could tell me how i could start about doing that, that would be great, thanks!