In California, Siri means.... getting lost and confused; forever running around in circles. An inability to get tasks done. A mental state of total bewilderment.
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iOS 15 Siri Guide: On Device Offline Recognition and Updates
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In California, Siri means.... getting lost and confused; forever running around in circles. An inability to get tasks done. A mental state of total bewilderment.
What practical reason is there — I assume there isn’t — for limiting announcements to Apple-branded Bluetooth headphones? Why not let this work on wired and wireless speakers and headphones?
Still flummoxed as to why it took ten whole years to get on-device processing for Siri. It’s been one of the massive complaints and contributors to Siri being borderline useless sometimes.
Right!? HAHAHA. This is one example (of many lately) of apples arrogance not serving them so well. Siri has become a joke in every tech circle. As soon as it doesn’t work more than twice people are done with it.
Part of why the HomePod never took off. Sounds amazing but Siri is meh. So what did apple do? Release $550 headphones! LMAO
I swear they announced this once before around the 5/5S era. I thought it was doing onboard processing for years now.
Maybe it was just for a small subset of commands/features, like “call” and names. Either way, Siri sucks and it is pretty much unusable for anything more that “call x” or “set timer for x minutes”. Completely worthless in AppleMusic unless you listen to hip hop.
In its current form, anytime you speak to Siri, that voice clip is sent to Apple and analyzed in the cloud, but the data is not linked to you. Then the response is sent back to your phone. That’s why Siri has always needed a network connection to function. With iOS15, that’s changing, and your voice is now processed on the device, if it’s recent enough.
It definitely still works on iOS, but not on macOS which is strange.
Translate app is indeed behind Google translate. And why on earth they don’t offer voice feedback for the original language and no handwriting option for Asian languages?
As for multi-source support, Apple better cannibalise their design philosophies first before we see that kind of change, the one place “courage” is much needed.
I use it everyday. Online forums are not the real world, most costumers use Siri and find it useful. Maybe Siri won’t tells you who who the cricket championship, but not everybody cares about news, just use for commands and I can’t imagine my everyday workflow without it.
Any improvements for the Apple Watch? That's where i want to use Siri the most and so far it fails with a lot of commands that work on the iPhone just fine.
I agree with that and it will take another 5 years before any AI will allow the use of multiple languages
I second that.
can someone confirm if you can skip songs while on airpods and away from your phone for a run for instance.
AirPods users will definitely benefit from iOS15. No more “please wait” just for changing volumes by Siri.
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It would actually be fairly easy with a little work around. iOS already remembers which keyboard you use for specific contacts. For instance, when I am starting a conversation with a friend from Australia, it is automatically the English keyboard, when I am talking to my BF, my keyboard is automatically in Spanish. All it would have to do is crosscheck the keyboard you have been using for contact X and automatically tell Siri "hey, use language XY for that contact". It is especially annoying when I try to answer a message from my Apple Watch. There should be a button to let you switch language for text speech. There is already one for hand writing. Why not do the same for text speech
edit: now that I think about it more, it actually also already works for auto correct, if I start a sentence in "German" it automatically gives me examples or corrections in German. If I start a sentence in English it automatically makes those examples in English and so on
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"This is what I found on the web"
If it finally works at, I'll be impressed.
Would be great if it could finally pick a consistent device to use. Frequently I'm trying to set a timer on my homepod in the kitchen and then it picks it up on my phone in the other room.
All of this is already possible. have a look at the Eve app where you can create complex automations with multiple conditions.
I remember when Siri launched it was supposed to be context aware. But then it got dummer over time. I’m not holding my breath it will be more useful now.
And please: add multi language support. How hard can it be to read out my messages in their own language instead of butchering them.
And please: add multi language support. How hard can it be to read out my messages in their own language instead of butchering them.
Will Siri tell jokes that are actually funny?
Hey Siri, tell me a joke.
"What do you call a magician who has lost his magic?"
"ian"
😐
Hey Siri, tell me a joke.
"What do you call a magician who has lost his magic?"
"ian"
😐
Yeah and it doesn’t work. “Hmm.. something went wrong,” is her new favorite phrase for this entire beta period.
Wish watchOS would get offline Siri support. I hate that I have to have my iPhone with me to so something as simple as setting an alarm. No internet connection should be required to do that.