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Kuo: Apple Upgrading iPhone 16 Microphone to Boost Siri AI Experience

The iPad M series have a five microphone array. When Siri wants to, and I mean, when she wants to, she can hear me from across the room. The microphones are not the problem.

nevertheless, I will be very interested indeed to see what improvements will be made to Siri. Let’s put this Neural Engine to work.
 
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The upgrade corroborates other reports suggesting Apple plans to make enhanced Siri features a key selling point of the iPhone 16.
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This is the saddest thing I've heard in years. Siri is a virtual assistant — why should that be a selling point for a phone, and why should this be limited to this phone? it's like when  introduced Siri on the 4s, but the 4 didn't get Siri, even though it was virtually the same tech.
 
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Fraserpatty said:
The iPad M series have a five microphone array. When Siri wants to, and I mean, when she wants to, she can hear me from across the room. The microphones are not the problem.

nevertheless, I will be very interested indeed to see what improvements will be made to Siri. Let’s put this Neural Engine to work.
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You make the iPad sound like a BMW :)
 
I don't want to have to buy a new phone just so Siri will finally work. Steve is rolling in his grave.
 
The last government surveillance article and improved boosted microphone with AI. Coincidence?
 
alexandr said:
This is the saddest thing I've heard in years. Siri is a virtual assistant — why should that be a selling point for a phone, and why should this be limited to this phone? it's like when  introduced Siri on the 4s, but the 4 didn't get Siri, even though it was virtually the same tech.
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The why is easy: Money and investors

This is the same company that disabled their USB SuperDrive for all Macs that had an internal optical drive, just so they could sell you on a newer Mac if your internal drive stopped working.
 
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TwoBytes said:
Apple also needs to sort out which device picks up requests. I.e. A house full of homepods and the phone responding to music and playing music when you want the homepod to!
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This! I’ll speak a request and in one area, two HomePods and my Ecobee are all fighting, and 50% of the time, one of the HomePods asks me to confirm on my iPhone, which is on the other side of the house. 9/10 time, I end up cussing out Siri and she gets butt hurt.
 
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displayblock said:
The why is easy: Money and investors

This is the same company that disabled their USB SuperDrive for all Macs that had an internal optical drive, just so they could sell you on a newer Mac if your internal drive stopped working.
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Don't remember this, but ok...
 
dampfnudel said:
Looks like another sign that advanced Siri will be limited to the 16 lineup. It should be quite an upgrade from the 15 lineup, especially the 16 Pro with advanced Siri, huge camera upgrades, bigger display, minor redesign, stacked battery tech, improved thermals, 5G Advanced and more.
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And it will be $100 more I guess than 15 Pro
 
alexandr said:
No, I remember the device — I've got one somewhere in storage. What did they disable though?..
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If your Mac had a built-in optical drive (like my 2008 MacBook Pro) the USB drive would spin the disc, but Mac OS X would refuse to mount any discs.

My business at the time involved burning DVDs, and when my drive crapped out, I bought the USB SuperDrive and was extremely frustrated when Apple Support told me it wouldn’t work and I had to buy a new Mac.

I ended up installing Bootcamp and used the USB SuperDrive under Windows.
 
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displayblock said:
If your Mac had a built-in optical drive (like my 2008 MacBook Pro) the USB drive would spin the disc, but Mac OS X would refuse to mount any discs.

My business at the time involved burning DVDs, and when my drive crapped out, I bought the USB SuperDrive and was extremely frustrated when Apple Support told me it wouldn’t work and I had to buy a new Mac.

I ended up installing Bootcamp and used the USB SuperDrive under Windows.
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Ah, gotcha. I guess I never tried to use it with a computer that had a drive.
 
The problem is that voice assistances today thinks human make no mistake. Every time I talk to any AI voice assistants I always end up miss-spelling something or saying umms and uhhs in between speeches. These AI should be able to detect that. Heck they should even have a full blown FaceTime AI session so it can analyze my facial expressions, confirm or clarify or any of uncertainty in my speech as we communicate just like how human talk in real life.
 
Malus120 said:
JFC Apple its not the microphone that needs fixing... 🙄
(That said, better hardware is always a plus!)
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Exactly. Siri usually understands me with 95%+ accuracy. It's just dumb as bricks about what to do next.

But also exactly, I wouldn't mind better audio input. It's already good, could be better.
 
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terrapinjess said:
Maybe they need to work on more: just this morning I asked Siri “Siri is it going to rain today.”
The reply was “OK”
Tried again from Apple Watch using the raise to speak thing: same reply “Ok”
Tried again. Same reply.
What it was doing was turning on the rain Background Sounds feature on iPhone. Soooo stupid…

Siri never gets better. It works great for adding things to my grocery list reminder list, saying “Siri take me home” when I need to go home with GPS, and turning lights on and off via the Home app but that’s about it.
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EDIT: and despi
 
Hopefully Siri gets a major upgrade with iOS 18. Better water resistance of the new microphone will be nice
 
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