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"Hey Siri" works 2/10

chfilm

chfilm

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Hey,


I just got my watch. Super excited! Heart rate around 100 bpm :D

It's beautiful. Just gorgeous. I love it already!!
The lag seems to be almost gone, and the UI is even more fluid than 2 weeks ago.

But at least in German, the raise and then say "hey siri" works only 2 or 3 out of 10 times... it's frustrating. Anyone else had more luck?
 
Good luck, I'm actually not a fan but for some reason Siri doesn't like me on my iPhone, I don't expect much on the watch.
 
I think it definitely varies from person to person. My husband never uses Siri because it gets his words wrong most of the time. OTOH I have a about an 85% success rate.
 
gorkt said:
I think it definitely varies from person to person. My husband never uses Siri because it gets his words wrong most of the time. OTOH I have a about an 85% success rate.
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Opposite situation in my house. Alexa (on the Amazon Echo) loves my boyfriend, hates and ignores me.
 
My biggest frustration. If you say Hey Siri and pause, it'll open up and count your silence as your question so you need to open it again anyway, but if you say Hey Siri and ask your question, it just won't come up lol.
 
I have the same problem with the watch.
My iPhone (connected to power supply) reacts every time when the clock fails.

Maybe after the next update. ;)
 
gwynne said:
Opposite situation in my house. Alexa (on the Amazon Echo) loves my boyfriend, hates and ignores me.
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Hmm, something may be going on behind your back lol ;)

Joking aside. Siri always understands me, and I have a weird voice.
 
I don't use it much, though I do use dictation when replying to text messages. I can see what your saying though.
 
Just tried it out now and had 5 out of 5 successes. Considering most speech engines don't like my voice at all I'd consider that a great hit rate (maybe it's all the practice talking to my Xbox...). Only thing I'd say is the mic is on the left side of the watch so make sure you're not covering it over either with a sleeve or with the watch pushing in to your arm.
 
For me it's not so much her understanding me, most of the time that's all correct, it's just actually getting it to work properly. A timing issue maybe?
 
When I first got the watch ~6 hours ago 'hey siri' was working fine, worked every time. I tried it 30 minutes ago and it wouldn't work at all, I tried about 30 times and it didn't work once. Restarted the watch and it's working fine again. Bug?
 
It seems to be working better now... weird.. maybe she learned a bit about my voice.
 
I don't have problems so far. Works fine for me.
But a little disappointed about the Shazam app. It uses the iPhone micro instead of the watch.
 
Does anyone find it a bit weird that the watch is so quiet.. I mean when you speak to Siri for example it doesn't even talk back...

Or do I have a setting wrong somewhere ?
 
8CoreWhore said:
She's trying to push you out.
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Totally O/T at this point, but we also have a Roomba that beelines for any electronics cables (or electronics, for that matter) in reach. I had a small walkie talkie in a charger on the floor, the roomba knocked it over, snagged it up by its wrist strap, and dragged it all over the house for a while.

It's getting real skynet up in here.

P.s., ask both Siri and Alexa if they are part of skynet. Their answers seem pretty disingenuous to me.
 
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