Thankfully the stroke didn’t affect his speech center.
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Siri Provides Stroke Victim With Life Saving Help
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My immediate thought. I honestly wonder how many people have died trying to get Siri to understand them?
Most of the time I ask her to ask chatGPT something now, but the problem is it has to pass through Siri's speech recognition system before it goes to chatGPT, and that's where things get really screwed up.
For that to be really meaningful, it would also be good to know the number of people engaging Siri in an emergency situation and had positive outcomes. And perhaps the number of people who suffered a medical issue and there was no phone or Siri around, and as a result died (and would have likely lived if there was a Siri device nearby).
But... for me, as I have zero issues with Siri in day to day use, it's not something I would worry about.
me too, Siri works pretty decently, especially on my iPad with Apple Intelligence, it can answer better questions like (send this to uncle, square root 64, open Youtube, etc.)
I have seven HomePods (OGs and Minis) distributed around the house, and they all work great with Siri.
Fort Lauderdale resident Daniel Vallaire suffered a devastating stroke last year, and it ended up being Siri that provided life saving help.
Just days before his 70th birthday, Vallaire collapsed in his bathroom. He spent the next 48 hours crawling "inch by inch by inch" from the bathroom to the living room in an attempt to get help. He was confused, had no strength, and ended up severely dehydrated.
Vallaire wasn't able to get to the phone or place a call, so he yelled to Siri to call his daughter, Victoria. Siri placed the call and his daughter was able to then relay the emergency to 911, and emergency responders arrived within 10 minutes.
"I said, 'Siri, call Victoria Vallaire,' and she did," Vallaire told a local news station. "If I had a landline, there's no way I would be able to get to it." He went on to say that if he didn't have Siri, he "wouldn't be here."
After emergency crews rescued him, the hospital found that he had a stroke caused by an infection in two of his aortic valves. Vallaire was able to reunite with the medical team that saved his life earlier this month. He said that he was grateful that he skirted death, and suggested that others "be conscious" of heart health.
Siri and other Apple safety features like Crash Detection, Fall Detection, and Emergency SOS have been responsible for saving many lives. Siri is available across all Apple devices, including the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, HomePod, and Apple TV.
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Nice to hear a good story but fact remains, he’s lucky Siri didn’t fire up Apple Music and play music.
Fort Lauderdale resident Daniel Vallaire suffered a devastating stroke last year, and it ended up being Siri that provided life saving help.
Just days before his 70th birthday, Vallaire collapsed in his bathroom. He spent the next 48 hours crawling "inch by inch by inch" from the bathroom to the living room in an attempt to get help. He was confused, had no strength, and ended up severely dehydrated.
Vallaire wasn't able to get to the phone or place a call, so he yelled to Siri to call his daughter, Victoria. Siri placed the call and his daughter was able to then relay the emergency to 911, and emergency responders arrived within 10 minutes.
"I said, 'Siri, call Victoria Vallaire,' and she did," Vallaire told a local news station. "If I had a landline, there's no way I would be able to get to it." He went on to say that if he didn't have Siri, he "wouldn't be here."
After emergency crews rescued him, the hospital found that he had a stroke caused by an infection in two of his aortic valves. Vallaire was able to reunite with the medical team that saved his life earlier this month. He said that he was grateful that he skirted death, and suggested that others "be conscious" of heart health.
Siri and other Apple safety features like Crash Detection, Fall Detection, and Emergency SOS have been responsible for saving many lives. Siri is available across all Apple devices, including the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, HomePod, and Apple TV.
Article Link: Siri Provides Stroke Victim With Life Saving Help
Or turn the lights off. Or lock the doors.
I was screaming at Siri on my worthless new large HomePods tonight while cooking dinner. The 10 minute timer went off and HAD TO SCREAM AT SIRI FOR THAT POS TO TURN THE DAMN TIMER OFF. It took 3 tries! And then I had to walk down the hallway to the study and tell Siri to turn off the alarm that was also going off in this room... Apple, DO BETTER!!!!
No, this is over a decade of dealing with a terrible product that continues to get worse!
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Yeah sure.
On the flip side of the coin though, the heart attack was probably caused by Siri giving a correct answer in first place.
On the flip side of the coin though, the heart attack was probably caused by Siri giving a correct answer in first place.
Crawling for 48hrs, that’s horrible!
In his unwell, disoriented and weak state I imagine that took a gargantuan effort.
Imagine jogging or even just walking straight for 48 hours in a normal healthy state… that’s terrible to do. In fact any activity for 48hrs will become torture after the 3rd hour.
Kudos to this guy that beat death once.
In his unwell, disoriented and weak state I imagine that took a gargantuan effort.
Imagine jogging or even just walking straight for 48 hours in a normal healthy state… that’s terrible to do. In fact any activity for 48hrs will become torture after the 3rd hour.
Kudos to this guy that beat death once.
For me, Siri works 100% of the time but only if I'm using a phrase or word that is a part of its (very limited) "vocabulary".
Siri works well. There just aren't a lot of things it can do, and only if you can adapt to it and use it often which shouldn't be the case. It should be able to work with any sentence spoken by anyone.
I'd like to see the number of people who tried to use Siri to get help but couldn't get it to work because Siri misheard them or gave an unhelpful response because the user didn't trigger it with the right phrase or word.
Siri works well. There just aren't a lot of things it can do, and only if you can adapt to it and use it often which shouldn't be the case. It should be able to work with any sentence spoken by anyone.
I'd like to see the number of people who tried to use Siri to get help but couldn't get it to work because Siri misheard them or gave an unhelpful response because the user didn't trigger it with the right phrase or word.
It gets terrible every update. I used to rely a lot because here we have 0F winter days, 6+ months of snow, etc… for music while jogging at some point it was great: “hey siri, add this playing song to playlist Jogging” or similar, now it says things like “here’s a by Jagged on Apple Music” resetting up the whole running playlist queue.
I'm really extremely glad that this man survived what sounds like a horrible ordeal. I truly wish him the best for his recovery.
But I genuinely wonder why this is being picked up as news here? Granted it involves Siri, but fundamentally the story here is 'man survives health emergency by calling for help on an iPhone.' It's one step up from reporting that people dial 911.
But I genuinely wonder why this is being picked up as news here? Granted it involves Siri, but fundamentally the story here is 'man survives health emergency by calling for help on an iPhone.' It's one step up from reporting that people dial 911.
Siri gets a lot of criticism, and rightly so, but it has been incredibly helpful. My mother had cancer, and towards the end it left her practically paralysed. The HomePod mini made it possible for her to contact me wherever I was in the house.
I skate, so I’ve taken quite a few spills, two concussions during the time I’ve worn the watch, the watch only caught the ones that landed on the side I wear the watch on and only one of the concussions. Dozens of false activations, though. The success rate of the feature is pretty bad.
I’m also curious about the unfortunate times a person calls out to Siri and it didn’t work 😬