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I'd be happy if Siri were finally able to understand a proper sentence at least most of the time. That would be helpful.

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It's odd that you still can't directly type to Siri, even on the Mac. (You can indirectly type by 'editing' a previous voice query).

The compeitors: Cortana accepts both voice and text input. Google Now/Allo does too (although the new Assistant in the Pixel is only voice though). Alexa is only voice.

If you click on your incorrect voice command, Siri has a "tap to edit" link, where you can correct in text and re-execute the command.

This is probably the biggest improvement to Siri they could make right now. The ability to enter commands to a natural language command line could be really convenient.

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