Apple Working on 'Enhanced Siri' Capabilities for Next-Generation iPhones

[ccrunner_tj]

When Siri first came out I always imagined her having a face that moved and talked when you brought up the Siri screen. Won't be happening anytime soon, if ever, but man would it be cool!

 

[AustinIllini]

Another feature that the older phones can handle and should be able to use that Apple will make a new iPhone exclusive.

 

[Aston441]

Siri's biggest flaw is it's speed. Use an Echo or a decent Android device to see the difference. It's nuts. Echo is especially good because of how sensitive to speech it is too. Just speak at a normal volume. If Siri had the speed and sensitivity, people may actually start using it.

Siri's biggest flaw is that every device that can use it has three or less 35 cent microphones. Alexa wins because it has a $35 seven microphone array.

 

[4jasontv]

Just my opinion, but Siri just sucks. S Voice? Sucks would be a compliment for S Voice. It's hoRRRRRible, and like you said, useless. Probably why Sammy bought Viv. Not sure it's going to help because most on Android just use Google. Amazon however, may just upset Google's apple cart. Their expansion of Alexa has been scary.

Why does it suck? I think it works slightly less often than autocorrect which is pretty decent. My issue is that it's rude to use most of the time which is why most people never get past the training phase.

 

[Sirious]

I hope one of the things they improve is the voice it self. Cortana sounds really natural, why can't Siri?

 

[PR1985]

I really like Siri on my AW, Series 0. On my iPhone 6 "she" is not as good as on my watch.

 

[Aston441]

One constant annoyance with Siri is when I am listening to a podcast (possibly any audio for that matter), it is very difficult to trigger Siri as the audio coming out of the iPhone speaker seems to cause interference with my "Hey Siri" prompt. The only way it works is I wait for a gap in the conversation and say it quickly.

I don't understand why Apple cannot program the Siri buffer to cancel out the audio coming from the speaker using phase reversal. It would then only hear non-iPhone generated sounds and respond much better.

You cannot program away bad hardware. They have to put in non-garbage mics.

 

[LordQ]

So folks with phones older than the iPhone 8 will be left out? ):

 

[MrGimper]

"Apple Working on 'Enhanced Siri' Capabilities for Next-Generation iPhones"

In other words, things beyond "Hey Siri, set a timer for 5 minutes" ....?

 

[4jasontv]

My kids use it more then I do, they don't think twice about saying "Siri facetime <insert name>" in public or in any situation I guess it might be a generational thing where I'm also a little sensitive about that.

I think that supports my point exactly. How old are the kids? I'd be surprised if it's a generational and more of a missing social cues. To me if someone answers a phone on a bus or an open office space than they are more likely to use Siri in public. To be fair, I dont consider family and friends to be "in public" as they are likely invited to participate in the event occuring.

 

[thasan]

Maybe it'll be usable this time.

lol. NO!
I am a strong believer in apple but when it comes to Siri, I don't even dream it will ever understand me anything apart from "hey siri, set an alarm after xxx mins."

 

[Romy90210]

See I've found some features useful so long as you're alone. I just find it would be rude most of the times I want to use it. If it's inappropriate to talk on the phone than it's going to be inappropriate to use a voice assistant.

I think a Sony Erickson Phone will be best for you..

 

[AdonisSMU]

Competition is always good for us consumers.

People repeat this but competition is not always good for consumers.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Any example related to Apple Tech hardware or software where competition was NOT good for us consumers?

 

[Jbusick7944]

What??? You mean the future product will have improved features???? Who would have thought.

 

[Naimfan]

Snore . . .

Siri, Alexa, etc., are, IMO, a waste of time. But apparently there is no end to how lazy and unwilling to do things for themselves people can be.

 

[4jasontv]

I think a Sony Erickson Phone will be best for you..

Lol - what?

 

[AustinIllini]

Come on, Sonos! Get Alexa integration!

 

[Robert.Walter]

Apple has been saying, and promoting, the idea of improved Siri for the last 2-3 years.

And I'm not sure that I've really noticed any commensurate improvements in Siri that time.

I like Siri and use it a lot, but, for my use case, and that of other family members, it still seems to have most of the limitations and errors that it had.

 

[4jasontv]

I hope one of the things they improve is the voice it self. Cortana sounds really natural, why can't Siri?

Agreed. The dude Siri sounds better, but I think one reason it hasn't been improved is because her voice has become iconic.

 

[0098386]

Oh it'd be so good if Siri was improved. I've given up on using it now and I tried to stick with it for as long as I could. But simple commands like "Drive us home" don't work. It's good for reminders though! All that tech, all that cost, and "count down 10 minutes" is its best trick.

 

[MrGimper]

Come on, Sonos! Get Alexa integration!

I recently purchased 4x Sonos Play 1's and am very impressed. Being able to drive it with Siri or Alexa would be awesome.

 

[cdmoore74]

As ironic as this is talking "to" the phone is just not natural. I don't even use Siri much unless my wife ask me a question because I'm too lazy to type it out. I'm the one telling her to use Siri but instead she ask me.
In summary my wife never uses it and I only use it when she ask me a question. So how does Apple plan on fixing that?

 

[smacrumon]

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[Kiwikat88]

I don't care about Siri functionality per se, but the voice recognition is atrocious on iOS compared to Android. It would be awesome to see improvements in the next iOS release!