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Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says

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Post by strix_varius » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 4:45 PM UTC

wincy wrote: post #394

khazhoux wrote: post #120

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I wound up in a screaming match with my Homepod recently. “Siri, play Beethoven” !!!

Hahah yeah I said “Siri play classical music on Spotify” and siri said “I’m afraid I can’t do that” and then starting playing Sabaton (which is Power metal and the exact opposite of classical music). Then Siri had the gall to claim NO MUSIC WAS PLAYING as this super loud music was assaulting our eardrums. My wife thought my exasperated struggles were the funniest thing, it felt like HAL-9000 with the “I’m sorry I can…

I've had the exact same experience with Google Home.

"Play music on dining room speaker." (dining room speaker starts blaring music at high volume) "Turn down dining room speaker." (No response) "HEY, GOOGLE. Stop music on dining room speaker." (dining room speaker music volume decreases) (from the dining room speaker) "Can't find dining room speaker." (dining room speaker volume increases, blaring music)

I did follow the advice here to rename all my speakers lowercase, since google home's VOICE interface seems case-sensitive:

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/jsadkp/i_unders...

And since the Google Home android app is, literally, the worst and least-reliable mobile application I've ever used, the voice interface is pretty much all I've got.

Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says

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Post by sitkack » Mon, May 01, 2023, 6:56 PM UTC

prawn wrote: post #312

lynx23 wrote: post #91

Siri, 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…

I get the impression that Apple makes an effort with accessibility and would be horrified about this blind/“where am I” example. Hopefully there’s an employee here who sees it and can get it in front of the right person.

Your chat bots shouldn't need a safe word to stop messing around.

Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says

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Post by sitkack » Mon, May 01, 2023, 6:59 PM UTC

heleninboodler wrote: post #445

m463 wrote: post #303

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There is someone else I know that always texts me with "abs" instead of "and" I think there was a dictionary you can reset. EDIT: "Settings > General > Reset; Tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary"

Minor correction: Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset, then tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary on mine, at least. Apple does enjoy moving these things around from time to time.

Not going down that part of the settings tree, that looks really dangerous.