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Personalized Hey Siri

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Re: Personalized Hey Siri

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On a separate note, I have yet to get Siri to transcribe "Isle of Dogs" correctly. It's always "I love dogs" which is quite ok by me :).

The title of that movie was chosen specifically to be a homophone for "I love dogs", so Siri's confusion is understandable. :)

It's also a place in the east end of London and has been for almost 500 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Dogs

Re: Personalized Hey Siri

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Cool little insight into their progress.

I'm excited for the day Siri can differentiate my voice and my wife's so we can use a single HomePod with two iCloud accounts. For example, Siri reading off calendar appointments from an iCloud account based on who's asking.

Re: Personalized Hey Siri

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While not a new problem at all, this is a perfectly good application of machine learning in support of a useful feature. The article is more direct and matter of fact than you'd expect from a hype obsessed company like Apple, suggesting that an engineer is in charge of these blog posts. I'd imagine that the marketing team isn't too thrilled with something as mundane as Siri being able to recognize the device owner's voice being portrayed as an achievement when she's supposed to have solved world hunger by now, but I found it refreshing.

Re: Personalized Hey Siri

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post #12

Cool little insight into their progress. I'm excited for the day Siri can differentiate my voice and my wife's so we can use a single HomePod with two iCloud accounts. For example, Siri reading off calendar appointments from an iCloud account based on who's asking.

This feature is one of my favorite things about the Google Home.

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To clarify, this is about training your phone to recognize only "Hey Siri" as spoken by you, as opposed to letting you personalize your trigger phrase to something other than "Hey Siri".

Yeah, they don't want to give users too much control; Siri is an important brand by itself and Apple doesn't want people going around skipping it.

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post #5

To clarify, this is about training your phone to recognize only "Hey Siri" as spoken by you, as opposed to letting you personalize your trigger phrase to something other than "Hey Siri".

Yeah, they don't want to give users too much control; Siri is an important brand by itself and Apple doesn't want people going around skipping it.

Shhhhhh

Re: Personalized Hey Siri

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post #5

To clarify, this is about training your phone to recognize only "Hey Siri" as spoken by you, as opposed to letting you personalize your trigger phrase to something other than "Hey Siri".

Yeah, they don't want to give users too much control; Siri is an important brand by itself and Apple doesn't want people going around skipping it.

It's too bad, because I sure wish I could make the homepod use a different phrase.

The homepod knows to activate when I say hey siri, but my friends phone activates instead of the homepod whenever they say 'hey siri' about %50 of the time.

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