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Notice something interesting about Siri last night...

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ethana

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My name is Ethan. When I bought the iPhone 4S and was using it, Siri pronounced my name like "eh-than" in the morning. I was kinda miffed that Siri couldn't pronounce a common name correctly. My name is currently #2 on the most popular names for boys being born.

By that night, around 9PM, Siri started pronouncing my name correctly, like "EE-than". Somewhere between the morning and the night there was a change on Apple's servers or something to tell it to say my name differently. I did nothing to train it to get my name right.... it just started working correctly.

Anyone else have a similar experience?

Ethan
 
That might also explain why Siri wasn't working for some people earlier today. Apple's probably upgrading servers and adding more responses and stuff.
 
The VoiceOver lady didn't pronounce my name right,--"Jah-vier" instead of "Ha-vier"--so it came as a surprise when Siri pronounced my name correctly out of the box. :D
 
all she ever says to me is sorry I am having trouble connecting to the network!!!
 
The first few times, she didn't say Verleen, at all, then when she did, she got it right....most humans screw it up!
 
Thanks for the observation! At first she totally butchered my name, now out of the blue shes pronouncing it correctly. Strange. :confused:
 
So far Siri has worked out fairly well, even able to correctly spell my daughters name when I set a reminder for her birthday party tomorrow. However, Siri cannot recognize when I say "NO". Its always mistaken for "MAD" Why does Siri think I'm pissed all the time>?? LOL
 
My girlfriends name is Brianna, like Bri-Ah-na. At first Siri was saying "Bri-Anna" but now she says Bri-ah-na
 
Maybe I should keep trying with my daughters name - Juanita (wah nee tah), as Siri mangles it as "Jew an eye tah"
 
I had a similar thing, but in the reverse :/ Yesterday Siri was saying my nickname, "Mer", like "mare", which is how it's supposed to be. Today it's "Murrr". :mad:
 
CleverNameHere said:
Ive learned that if she is having a hard time connecting, go to settings and disable Siri. Then turn it back on. Its fixed the problem every time she's had it. ;)
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When you do this you wipe the voice training database, according to the Siri support page.
 
I would imagine it's probably learning from us directly -- so, for example, if I say "Siri, text my friend Ethan," Siri learns right there how the name "Ethan" is supposed to be pronounced.

With several million teachers, Siri is going to be pretty ****ing smart.

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lionqueen said:
I had a similar thing, but in the reverse :/ Yesterday Siri was saying my nickname, "Mer", like "mare", which is how it's supposed to be. Today it's "Murrr". :mad:
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And I guess this is the downside of learning from users. They probably all just suck at pronouncing your name. ;)

Have you tried specifically telling Siri how to pronounce your name?
 
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notjustgc said:
I would imagine it's probably learning from us directly -- so, for example, if I say "Siri, text my friend Ethan," Siri learns right there how the name "Ethan" is supposed to be pronounced.

With several million teachers, Siri is going to be pretty ****ing smart.
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Does Siri work out of the box, or do I have to teach it?
Siri works right out of the box, without any work on your part. And the more you use Siri, the better it will understand you. It does this by learning about your accent and other characteristics of your voice. Siri uses voice recognition algorithms to categorize your voice into one of the dialects or accents it understands. As more people use Siri and it’s exposed to more variations of a language, its overall recognition of dialects and accents will continue to improve, and Siri will work even better.

Siri also uses information from your contacts, music library, calendars, and reminders to better understand what you say. So it responds more accurately when you ask to make a phone call, play music, or create an appointment or reminder.

If you like, you can reset what Siri has learned about your voice by turning Siri off and then back on in Settings > General > Siri.

From:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri-faq.html
 
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