Apple Wins 2017 Technical/Engineering Emmy for Siri Integration on Apple TV

Wait a sec, my ATV4 has Siri?! Ah, totally forgot I live in a third world country in the EU

 

As someone said in another thread, Siri actually works really well on tvOS. Not sure why it’s not great in iOS.

 

Maybe Siri on tvOS works well because of the focus on content questions. Siri on iOS faces more general questions. Maybe? Idk.

 

I guess they're just handing out Emmys now if Apple can get one for Siri on tvOS.

Siri works about as well on tvOS as it does on iOS, in my experience. Across all of my Siri-enabled devices, none of the rooms in my home that have HomeKit devices in them can start with the same letter because Siri apparently thinks "Front Room" sounds like "Family Room" and vice-versa over 90% of the time.

About half the time I ask Siri something on tvOS, it says, "Sorry, I can't do that here."

Not a great user experience, IMO.

 

Particularly when its the same back-end.. Apple would rather develop more on tvOS than iOS integration

I don't think the complexity has anything to with it.

 

Siri on tvOS has probably been her best implementation for me, so very much happy to see the curve set

 

Siri is great on tvOS, iOS it has its pros and cons, macOS I hardly use the assistant. I just hope that Siri on homepod is as good as tvOS.

 

Something tells me they didn't even try Siri for long before giving out the award. Or it won by default? Siri on Apple TV is awfully frustrating sometimes. When you say "Rewind 30 seconds" while watching a show, and it replies with "I can't find anything called 'Rewind 30 seconds'", you have to wonder what the hell is going on. It actually understood the voice, and completely messed up the context/instruction.

 

That probably has something to do with it. It also helps that it’s extremely fast to come up and serve results where on iOS it’ll just think for a bit and sometimes stall completely even in the same room on great Wi-Fi.

 

Must be one of those self paid awards because real usage say otherwise.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sirifail

 

I love the implementation of Siri on my TV. Only if Plex had full integration would it be perfect. The feature of asking who that is on screen, or what other movies an actor has been in is something I have been looking forward to for a long time

 

Very true. With Siri on tvOS you're asking a smaller range of questions and asking it to carry out simple tasks. Fast forwarding a bit or a simple lookup of who an actor is. The things asked of Siri on iOS are far more broad range, happen in numerous environments, and are generally more complicated in nature.

 

Here's to hoping some of those Emmy-winning engineers make their way back to iOS Siri. I recently created a reminder and was treated to this non-sequitur:



Siri, you asked me the followup question, so you should know what the original context was!

 

Is this like the whole “La La Land/Moonlight” thing again?
“Would you like me to search the web for ‘turn off the lights?’”

 

As more and more evidence of the contrary, these "Siri sucks because one time I asked X and she didn't work" posts are getting more and more repetitive.

 

Congrats to Apple. Only those who created and invented need apply.

 

Yeah 3rd world Asia Pacific country here too. I get the message Siri is not available in your country every time i switch accounts

 

Lol... Too funny...

 

Unfortunately, this hasn't happened just one time. It happens often. Though, sometimes it works.

And the one time issues are a problem. Normal users will often only try once. If it fails, they won't bother trying again. People will do the action that gives them the results they want the fastest. If talking worked, it would be fastest and people would keep doing it. But when it fails, you then have to do it the long way (pause/click rewind etc) after, and so it took longer to get the desired result. Next time, they'll skip the failed action and just go right to the long way that always works. Only techies like us will sometimes repeat a failed action, mostly to satisfy the curiosity of "wonder if this works yet..."

Of all the people I've convinced to buy Apple TVs, iPhones, or iPads, I don't know any that actually use Siri for anything.

 

Well, most of them are more jokes than actual fails:

This is the most upvoted post on first page:



Or just anecdotes



And some real fails:

 

Must be low standards for Siri to win anything.

 

I cant tell Siri to play any movie that wasn't bought through iTunes - I simply don't use Siri on tvOS

 

Europe, that one region where many US companies often generate more profits than in the US.

Also the region that is a complete mystery and doesn't need to be looked after apparently.

Every time I hear a big tech company is European instead of US-American I cheer a little, whether I'm a customer or not.

Glassed Silver:win

 

I imagine the Emmy people hope that if they give Apple a bauble their profile will be raised. Award ceremonies like these are meaningless cash grabs.