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Gurman: Apple Working On Revamped Siri Experience That Doesn't Require 'Hey Siri' Trigger Phrase

Ashbash75 said:
Apples fixes bugger all. Just more dung on the pile.

I live in the UK. WTF are shades? we have curtains and/or blinds. It drives the misses potty when siri says "closing the shades"
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Shades are the things on regular windows that you pull down and you need to do a flick of the wrist to raise again. Peter pulls them down in their home in No Way Home when the helicopters are outside. But I wouldn't call blinds of drapes or curtains shades. Maybe those things that she put down in the bedroom in The Holiday I might call shades too.
 
Piggie said:
LOL some people are so paranoid.
Of course, I'm 100% sure companies like Google/Amazon and Chinese camera makers are recording and storing the video and audio feeds from billions of devices all around the world 24 hours a day and looking through it all to find secrets about what you are doing.... LOL....

Just think how unrealistic a scenario that actually would be in reality.
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Is it? Current phones are very powerful and we users give on-device AI plenty of opportunity to learn by constantly rephrasing and shouting something at Siri. I have no doubt that in time on-device AI will be powerful enough that it has no problem understanding anyone fully autonomously, regardless of language, accent, gestures, etc and act on it too, again fully automatic.
 
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 said:
Maybe Apple will change “Hey Siri” to “Hi Siri” OMG 😵‍💫.

All jokes aside, I think Siri will play a huge part in Apple’s upcoming AR/VR Apple headset. I can see myself playing certain commands and Siri will get the job done. It will be the biggest factor.
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This is what I thought about the Apple Watch. I thought surely they would need a massive upgrade to Siri, in all ways in order to make it work with a screen so small. I was wrong.
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple is working on an updated Siri experience that moves away from the "Hey Siri" trigger phrase currently required to invoke the digital voice assistant hands-free, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.

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In his latest "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that Apple is working on a way for Siri to be able to understand phrases and commands without the need to use "Hey Siri," simply saying "Siri" instead. Gurman added that the change is expected to roll out sometime in 2023 or 2024.Gurman also today reported that Apple is working to further integrate Siri into third-party services and apps to provide more context and assistance to users.

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MacRumors said:


Apple is working on an updated Siri experience that moves away from the "Hey Siri" trigger phrase currently required to invoke the digital voice assistant hands-free, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.

hey-siri-banner-apple.jpg

In his latest "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that Apple is working on a way for Siri to be able to understand phrases and commands without the need to use "Hey Siri," simply saying "Siri" instead. Gurman added that the change is expected to roll out sometime in 2023 or 2024.Gurman also today reported that Apple is working to further integrate Siri into third-party services and apps to provide more context and assistance to users.

Article Link: Gurman: Apple Working On Revamped Siri Experience That Doesn't Require 'Hey Siri' Trigger Phrase
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Honestly, it is already so bad with Siri, as with some bad relationship, lasting for a decade. Divorce and full rebeanding could be an option, if Apple wants to make something finally good in the AI area. And I guess, everybody would agree here — Apple should have started from the basics like ability to pick the next appointment location and navigate there, fixing basic understanding issues. Many of us had a chance to try Google Assistant or Alexa so we know the difference very well.. but not “hey Siri” for sure!
 
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Well well, that will be a huge improvement, about time too .... At last one word less to get an unusable answer ... 100 times less 'hey' to wonder 100 times why even bother ..... Useless and very frustrating.
 
I've probably already posted this into the thread but will repeat it.

Back in 2010 I bought a top of line portable Garmin Nav (still have it and it's functional), it featured customizable phrases to activate voice command. Type in any word, save it, speak it and it is instant. There was never any false positives or ignored commands. Would be great if Siri was as reliable in 2023.
 
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Piggie said:
LOL some people are so paranoid.
Of course, I'm 100% sure companies like Google/Amazon and Chinese camera makers are recording and storing the video and audio feeds from billions of devices all around the world 24 hours a day and looking through it all to find secrets about what you are doing.... LOL....

Just think how unrealistic a scenario that actually would be in reality.
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Is this sarcasm?

We don’t need people to sit at a desk with a headset on to do this. You simply train a computer to recognize something, like the sound of broken glass or a baby crying or anything really, and it can scan through hours and hours of audio, live or recorded, and find it.

Same with video and pictures. Check out that website https://pimeyes.com/en if you’d like to see how quickly and easily a specific person can be found using image recognition.
 
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mjs916 said:
I know you said this happened yesterday but I just asked and received the correct answer with a link to the website. Is yours still not giving a proper response or was it a one time fail?
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I asked several times to the Siri on iPhone and she couldn’t answer. But for some reason Siri on various devices give different responses. The whole thing is completely fragmented and it makes no sense. Siri should be consistent across every single Apple device.
 
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Q: with the Personal Voice in iOS 17, in theory could you set Siri to use your own or someone else's voice?
 
Qualcomm and Meta have partnered to run llama 2 locally on Snapdragon chips. big for smartphones, Apple not likely to use Qualcomm or someone else’s open source LLM.
 
acrakes said:
Qualcomm and Meta have partnered to run llama 2 locally on Snapdragon chips. big for smartphones, Apple not likely to use Qualcomm or someone else’s open source LLM.
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What on earth are you talking about?!
 
Has anyone run Llama 2 on Apple Silicon? If so, care to share which model/hardware specs and performance?

I'd watch a youtuber video about that.
 
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