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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.
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 :).
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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.
I'd love it if HomePod recognized who was speaking, but I'd settle for Siri just recognizing "this is a kids voice" and ignoring it!
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.
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.
My biggest problem with the homepod is that my 5 year old has learned that he can turn on _any song he wants_ whenever he wants by yelling "hey siri." He loves it! He yells at the dinner table, when his little sister is asleep, and when we are on the phone. His favorite phrase is "Hey Siri, set volume to 100%." His favorite song is the PJ Masks song, which Siri dutifully plays when called upon. Every. Single. Time. I…
My biggest problem with the homepod is that my 5 year old has learned that he can turn on _any song he wants_ whenever he wants by yelling "hey siri." He loves it! He yells at the dinner table, when his little sister is asleep, and when we are on the phone. His favorite phrase is "Hey Siri, set volume to 100%." His favorite song is the PJ Masks song, which Siri dutifully plays when called upon. Every. Single. Time. I…
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.
We experimented with this extensively.