Apple Launched Invite-Only 'Siri Speech Study' App to Improve Siri

[EM2013]

if Siri mishears a request or identifies a user incorrectly, users can explain what they were trying to ask or that they were identified wrongly

With Pro’s & mask on & I say ‘hey’ it triggers every time. Had to turn off hey siri from AirPods & eventually turned it off completely.

It just ends up calling or facetiming some one without me even saying any command or name, or even siri’s name.

 

[DeepIn2U]

I wish that every time Siri misspoke, you could say “hey Siri, that was wrong”. And then trigger her to learn from there. That would get sent directly to Apple (with your consent, that option maybe only appearing to those who opt-in, similar to this program it seems)

That way Apple engineers would know exactly where Siri is falling short.

Okay you know what the more I type this out the more I realize it’s exactly what they just released in this app 😂 nothing to see here, just keep scrolling…

Therein lies a Major weakness with Siri and many voice AI’s
1. vocal activation!
- why, after going through a vocal training. To recognize the end users voice and having neural engine chip can Siri not just KNOW who’s speaking to execute commands and isolate personal requests that are from and deny not from the owner?! HomePod gets this with an A8 chip, why doesn’t not do this on all other devices with newer chips?
> Test. Sign into an iPhone 7 or newer with your iCloud account. Restore or setup as new and go through Siri training setup. Use the device for 14 days. Sign out wipe device ensure removed from you iCloud account and list of devices. Have someone else setup a valid and active icloud account as well. Let them begin using it for 5 days. Place a your iPhone and the former iPhone you signed into and used, yet fully wiped and removed and now used by another EI kid account mentioned previously. Both device same distance from you on the same Wi-Fi network and beside one another. Send a Siri command and BOTH will light up Siri. Only one will answer or respond but BOTH will listen, WHY?! IT SHOULDNT. Not unless you’re telling Siri to call 911 which Siri is not supposed to do. So why is this happening?


many don’t opt in to send Siri vocal history reports due to the backlash of a apple previously using external contractors and conpanies to do human voice command interpretation and correction to teach a Siri on servers to learn correctly. Sooner or later that Deep Fake tech will get out there and combine that with Google’s Voice currently in beta that a Google showed off 2yrs ago where Assistant booked a hair salon appointment even when encountering a booking restriction. Imagine both used in tandem to fake a world leader into acting out a 1984 War Games scenario.

Slowly but surely, Siri is becoming the Internet Explorer of virtual assistants - i.e. its reputation is getting so bad that at some point (if we aren't there already) it will be better to call it a day and start from scratch.

Any else notice that Apple for 2yrs until earlier this year even mentioned Siri in keynote?!

I don't think Siri mishearing stuff is the issue at all. She's generally okay at transcribing what was said. Her issue is that she can't do anything, so I never use her.

"Start a timer" is about the only useful command that Siri can follow.

thats actually part of the issue.
1. Siri at t8me mistakenly thinks a command is mentioned.
don’t keep you OG HomePod near your TV when watching Total Recall (remake) and Siri will go “mmhmm“. Hate that. creepy. Sold my HomePod because it was getting far too frequent even after multiple resets.

 

[SurferPup]

Siri is terrible at understanding my Scottish Accent. Anything to improve that would also be useful 😂

Does your accent sound anything like the Scottish accent this dog had in the Chum commercial?:

 

[Muzzakus]

How about geddit some of dem AI’s?

 

[MacAddict1978]

Surely everyone at Apple has used Siri. Thus, they all know how bad Siri is and its shortcomings. Today I dictated "The scent of that has to be awful." Siri: "The sent of hat that be awesome." Tried again, finally gets it right but still uses the wrong form of sent (scent). Google and Alexa without fail now the right version of a word and have damned good accuracy with dictation. I might have to correct one out of 20 sentences with Google, but I have never once dictated with Siri and not had to correct something.

Siri, set a timer for.... (spinning circle, freeze, working on it....).

I realize part of Siri's issues is the on device processing, but Apple could find a way for Siri to leverage cloud processing without the same invasiveness as Google or Alexa if they want to make it work better. If they're going to send packets of my photos to the cloud.... send my freaking voice so the experience isn't a suck fest and process the requests in the cloud.

 

[Royksöpp]

This is pretty much how I would sum up Siri.

 

[mjs916]

I wish I got an invite, I'd give Apple a lot of feedback. Especially when it comes to Apple Music and commands it should understand and carry out, but doesn't.

I got a request from Amazon this week to help create answers to questions it’s failed to answer apparently, but I don’t even use Alexa. I’d also volunteer more info to Apple regarding my Siri interactions.

 

[sjsharksfan12]

They did this survey in 2021 and Siri got worse in the years after? What was the point of the survey then?