Outages today….

Actually, outages since last night, Saturday November 5th, around 11:00 pm EST (at least ).  Then it failed again several times this morning and a few times midday.  What is interesting is that the speech recognition seems to be working just fine — and it seemed to be working not just for English but for the other languages as well.  It’s the natural language processing that seems to be down: for instance, it transcribed perfectly my saying, “How is the weather like today,” but was unable to actually retrieve the weather information.  It responded with “Uh, oh, something is wrong” and variations thereof.  Which brings up an interesting point: it seems that Siri is performing the speech recognition and the natural language processing in two completely separate phases.