Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Other Siri voice changed?
- Thread starter Jessay
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
After going through a bunch of videos on youtube, it seems like everyones has sounded like mine does now. I am just confused why mine is JUST NOW changing when apperantly everyone else got theirs that way lol. In any case, I like the way it sounds now.
The reason I noticed the change so distinctly is that I spent all last night showing the phone off at work. And then literally when I got home and tried to set an alarm to wake up to, she sounded different. Its much better now though
The reason I noticed the change so distinctly is that I spent all last night showing the phone off at work. And then literally when I got home and tried to set an alarm to wake up to, she sounded different. Its much better now though
Mine has changed also. I had the voice from the Apple promo video, but now it's softer and less robotic.
I think we'll see Siri's voice changing quite a few times. I spent the first 6 years of my career in AI research. Many (but by no means all) people realise that recognising speech (i.e. voice to text conversion) is a very difficult thing to do but far fewer people realise just how difficult it is to do the reverse, i.e. generate natural sounding speech from a text input. It is a really difficult problem because there are so many subtle changes in intonation (and other things) that depend on the actual meaning of the text being spoken. One of the first things that struck me from watching all the Siri demo videos was that the voice was a bit too robotic for my liking.
I would expect Siri's voice generation module to be something that is under constant development although I imagine that once Siri comes out of beta then Apple will only push out changes occassionally so as not to confuse people (possibly to coincide with the iOS release cycle). Also, there might come a time when Apple don't want to make it any more natural sounding so that there is still some hint that Siri is not human so that it doesn't unnerve people and so that users remember that it has limitations in it's functionality because it is just a computer program.
- Julian
As Siri evolves I have no doubt her voice may change, but I can not detect any change what so ever.
As we ALL know Siri was down yesterday for a good while. I am sure it is only the first of many upgrades we will see in the months ahead of us.
It would be nice if Apple kept us up to date with Siri and her evolution, but that is not what Apple would normally do.
As we ALL know Siri was down yesterday for a good while. I am sure it is only the first of many upgrades we will see in the months ahead of us.
It would be nice if Apple kept us up to date with Siri and her evolution, but that is not what Apple would normally do.
That sort of thing could get annoying if, even after a couple of years of use, Siri stilll doesn't pronounce the names correctly for people that you talk to it about every day.
It would be nice if there was some way to tell Siri how to pronounce unusual names properly. Maybe one day Apple will introduce something that tries to work out the pronunciation by listening how you say a name in your contact book and updating its output accordingly. Yet another of thousands of enhancements that's probably on Apple's to-do list.
Maybe this is the time to establish a nickname for your daughter, just make sure that you run it through Siri first so that you know that it can pronounce it. Your daughter might not be impressed though, especially if you come up with something like "snuggles" and she's 17 or similar
.- Julian
Your daughter might not be impressed though, especially if you come up with something like "snuggles" and she's 17 or similar
Neither of my kids are called by their names at home, so to get around the issue I just added her nickname "Boofie" and it worked. Even saying her name the way Siri attempts it I cant call her. Juanita is pronounced Wah-nee-tar here, but Siri says Jew-wan-eye-ta, and try saying that back to Siri and see what weird and wonderful words you get back... "Sorry I cant find Ewan Eita in your contacts lists"
The voice on my siri also changed earlier around 2am. Went to ask what the temp outside was and got what i can only describe as a more scattered version of her robotic voice.