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Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
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I wound up in a screaming match with my Homepod recently. “Siri, play Beethoven” !!!
I take your point but really like the mirth of a man who died 30 years before audio recordings being represented by a hip hop version of one of his pieces! He never recorded a canonical version of anything!
He did lots of canonical midi-recordings on paper though.
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#234I’d love to see a survey of people’s hit/miss rate with Siri, but with the extra dimension of what accent they have and how thick it is. IME, Siri’s speech recognition is actually quite fantastic (I almost never have an issue with a dictated text message saying the wrong thing), but: - I have a very standard midwest american accent - I talk to siri like I’m a pilot talking to ATC: As clearly and succinctly as possibl…
You must have had some issue being understood, or you wouldn't have adopted the careful speech pattern.
I suspect it's hard to do a realistic test. Two of the most common use cases seems to be kitchen timers and playing music. Both imply a noisy environment.
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#235Siri, don't make me even start. I like much of what Apple does, but Siri is just hilariously bad. The error rate at speech recognition seems to have gone up over the years. Keywords are randomly being changed, sometimes they fire, a day later you have to use a different phrase to get what you want. They even broke "Where am I" at least in German. "Wo bin ich" is sometimes replied to with "Sein oder nicht sein" (to be…
If you think Siri is bad, give Apple autocorrect a spin!
Just try their swiping.
I use it. I don't like it. (I haven't found anything else that's much better, and that's with a fair amount of SwiftKey use; nothing beats now-dead Swype.)
Routinely - routinely - I try to swipe out "and". Often, I get "abs" (I don't work out, let alone write about it), but the most common and bizarre one is "Abbas". The only Abbas I know is the Palestinian president, and I don't write about him at all, let alone enough to justify having that be a common word that comes up.
I realize that with put/out/or it's just not easy to distinguish. But I'll live with that. Abbas?
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#236I used to have Google Home and moved to Homepod Minis. I should have ran them side by side, but that would have gotten very confusing for other people in the family. Siri is fine at controlling smart home devices, giving weather, timers, etc...but if you ask it questions more times that not it wants you to use your phone. Google Home handled that so much better. We have Apple Music and have Homepods around the house…
"Hey siri set a timer for 5 minutes"
"hey siri what timers are running" -> "it's 10:45am"
"hey siri how long left on the timer" -> "there's one timer with 5 minutes remaining"
"hey siri list all timers" -> "there are no timers set"
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#237I use Siri fairly frequently for setting timers, controlling my smart home and the like, but for me where it falls down is really understanding natural language. Personally I found that google assistant was way way ahead of siri in this regard. I could ask it to do something and it would just understand what I want. One issue I frequently have with siri is that commands that work one day suddenly don't the next. If I…
Does anyone know why I have this problem with Siri on my Apple Watch?
“Set a timer for 15 minutes”
Siri: “timer app is not installed”
Excuse me? It most certainly is.
Try again later and it works.
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#238I wish we didn't have blogspam on HN but theinformation.com, which used to unlock certain articles for HN readers, doesn't answer my emails anymore. Totally fair on their part but the story (and thread!) are interesting and only the blogspam is publicly readable...so here we are.
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#239All voice assistants seem bad, but Siri seems particularly bad. God forbid I ask it to do something simple such as playing a specific artist or album on Apple Music or ask it to turn off lights I've configured in the Home app.
"Siri, please turn off all the lights in my apartment."
"Sure, which room?"
Sigh.
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#240Siri, don't make me even start. I like much of what Apple does, but Siri is just hilariously bad. The error rate at speech recognition seems to have gone up over the years. Keywords are randomly being changed, sometimes they fire, a day later you have to use a different phrase to get what you want. They even broke "Where am I" at least in German. "Wo bin ich" is sometimes replied to with "Sein oder nicht sein" (to be…
It's infuriating when I ask Siri to play a song and it decides to pick an obscure remix of the song one day, the actual song another day, then another remix another day. Did they test this at all? Why would you ever pick a more complex/verbose option from the results list?
Ok Google doesn't work well either.
20% of the time it can't play songs on Spotify, and I have no idea why.