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Past two days it has been rotten, usually pretty good for all I use it for .
”hey siri turn on plug” , get plug not responding or mmmm working on it.
On the iPad it worked ok, back to normal today working well.
 
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I got so burnt out of saying "Hey Siri" to an obviously-not-remotely-sentient voice assistant a few years ago that I switched Siri off on all my devices.

It's time for custom wake-words.
 
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Hey, Apple, how about making Siri more reliable?
How can Apple make it be reliable when it doesn’t encompass fuzzy logic or some kind of learning process instead of rigid syntax commands? It’s a just a useful gimmick, like so many the voice command features.

The worst thing with Siri is not being able to disable it quickly, in case someone starts an argument in the room when Siri is active. :D

I do look forward to no more Hey Siri! ;)
 
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How can Apple make it be reliable when it doesn’t encompass fuzzy logic or some kind of learning process instead of rigid syntax commands? It’s a just a useful gimmick, like so many the voice command features.

The worst thing with Siri is not being able to disable it quickly also, in case some one starts an argument when Siri is active. :D

I do look forward to no more Hey Siri! ;)
I think some of Siri’s problems come from it actually using a fuzzy logic method to interpret commends. Alexa seems easy to use because it does use a rigid syntax for many commands and so can react directly to commands that match its patterns. Siri tries to interpret the meaning of your statements which works great when it matches but falls on its face when it gets it wrong.
 
After living with my HomePod mini for about 2 years I claim it useless when it comes to voice commands for smart automation. I stand right next to it and it can't hear anything however if I sit in my office a good 60ft away from my HomePod mini it pick up me whispering hey siri. O and if I say aww **** it picks it up like what the heck. Glad matter is rolling out so i can move over to Google home and just use HomeKit to manually turn my lights if I need to.
 
Siri will consistently misunderstand ‘turn the music down’ and instead, turn the music up, and vice versa. Daily queries are answered similarly inaccurately. For a period this summer, asking it to ‘skip this track’ caused it to read out my voicemails. It’s a terrible product.
 


Apple is working on an updated Siri experience that moves away from the trigger phrase "Hey Siri" 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 says that Apple is working on a way for Siri to be able to understand phrases and commands without the need to use the "Hey Siri" trigger phrase but instead simply saying "Siri." Gurman says the change is expected to roll out sometime next year or in 2024.
Gurman also reports today 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
Maybe put some of that engineering effort to use just making Siri work reliably. It hasn't improved much since the days of Voice Control on OS 9 more than two decades ago.

"Hey Siri, get directions to my next appointment" requires two steps - look up the location of the next calendar item, and get directions to that location. Still not possible.

If you're going to screw around with how to invoke Siri, and one word is too hard, let us rename our individual Siris. This could also solve the issue of every phone within earshot reacting to "Hey Siri". I'd like to perhaps call my phone George, and my iPad, let's call her Djinn. "Hey George, what time is it?". "Hey Djinn, open Netflix".
 
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Maybe a slightly out there answer but I also have a Galaxy Fold 4. I've been playing with Google Assistant and also Bixby. Honestly I think Siri works better overall.

On a Samsung phpne, Google Assistant cannot even set your alarm or let you know when it's set at. No doubt it works on a Pixel but not Samsung. So then you have to use Bixby for that.

There's an advantage to just having a single well integrated assistant like Siri. Can it be better? Sure but it's still early days for this whole voice assistant. Yes we might have had them for a long time but it takes time to solve this. It's kind of like self driving cars, it's going to get better over time. The basic commands weren't so hard but I suspect the processing power to handle more complex syntax and meanings is far more work.
 
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Siri is sometimes useful, but it is very badly designed. This is especially evident in the timer. Asking Siri on the watch for a setting remains on the watch. If she is so smart then asking her for the remaining time on the phone should inform me that there is a timer on my watch. But this magical ecosystem seems to stop being so magical. One AppleID and Siri treats my devices as something not mine, separated. Apple Music is the same and the lack of anything like Spotify Connect is a mockery.
 
I think some of Siri’s problems come from it actually using a fuzzy logic method to interpret commends. Alexa seems easy to use because it does use a rigid syntax for many commands and so can react directly to commands that match its patterns. Siri tries to interpret the meaning of your statements which works great when it matches but falls on its face when it gets it wrong.
If you observe Siri on a tvOS device, it's limited to what resources it can draw upon compared to iOS/IPadOS/MacOS. So it doesn't acquire some kind of history from you, or can it use anything more then some app history. Ask any simple question about an actor, event, and because it not linked to a browser it can't go to the same resources that Siri has on other OS devices.

I picked this example because the Siri used on an Apple TV has nothing to help a user find information to assist with fact finding media details when you are watching/choosing content. It's funny this would be an outstanding advantage to buy Apple's device but its the weakest of all Apple's Siri implementations.

Looking at Apple Music if you say go open Apple Music, and suggest an artist for it to bring up, Siri only tries to guess more common words instead of what you said. Comparably you can mistype a word on a web browser search engine and it will usually suggest what you are looking for, which is a function missing from most interactions of Siri.
 
I guess that is one way to get more data to fix Siri since Siri is hot garbage, but man is that going to get annoying when it is accidentally triggered all of the time.
 
Why not keep “Hey Siri” and fix the rest of it?
Because that would make too much sense. Apple and their trillion-dollar valuation can't even hire any competent engineers to make Siri not suck. It has gotten worse since they purchased it.
 
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Turned off Siri even since it came into existence. I am happy to open Google app and ask it anything.
 
Does Apple not realize there are a lot of actual people in the world named Siri? I already get a lot of false activations, I can’t imagine how many more will happen if “hey” is dropped. Alexa’s activation name can be changed, Siri needs that too.
I’m guessing it will be listening continually to whole sentences or groups of sentences, and looking for context to match initialization, rather than just a few words amount of time To match a few syllables. So the privacy settings will probably update to mention a longer listening/recording time for Siri.
 
Actual exchange I had last night:

Me: “Hey Siri, turn off the fan in 15 minutes”

HomePod: “I’m sorry, you must set automations at least one minute in advance”

Me: “Hey Siri, turn off the fan in 15 minutes”

HomePod: “I’m sorry, you must set automations at least one minute in advance”

Me: “Hey Siri, turn off the fan in 15 minutes”

HomePod: “I’m sorry, I’m not sure who’s speaking. Who is this?”

Me: “David”


HomePod: “I’m sorry, you must set automations at least one minute in advance”


Me: “Hey Siri, just turn off the fan”

Siri: “okay”
I find it helps to pronounce it as "manutes" instead of "minutes".
And if you have trouble with a certain number say 14 minutes instead of 15.
 
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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.
Good point about how it would be incorporated into Reality. I don’t think Meta uses anything like this, so I wonder how it would change the experience.

Dropping “hey” would be neat. Even neater would be the ability to use a unique shortcut word that would trigger the assistant for the individual user.
 
Because that would make too much sense. Apple and their trillion-dollar valuation can't even hire any competent engineers to make Siri not suck. It has gotten worse since they purchased it.
I think if one thinks about the power required to provide a decent search engine for a browser and yet you see these very limited smart assistants like Siri that only can do some set of tasks given we have a very long journey to something better.

Probably the reason they seem worse is because Apple limited the amount of tasks it can do to decrease cloud server usage.
 
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