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 or not to be) which indicates Siri is trying to be smart and fails totally. I am blind and use this feature when I have a feeling I might have been lost. Very funny if you ask a simply question like "Where am I" and your voice-assistant is fucking with you about pseudophilosophically. "Was läuft gerade" did also just fail a few hours ago. Siri just started to play something from my library, which is not what I wanted. All in all, its a embarrasing failure all around. Oh, and before I forget, when Siri fails to understand the name of the person I want to call, it says "OK, I am calling " and actually tries to dial my own number. This is so dumb, it feels like a joke put in there by an intern.
Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
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Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#92I use Siri just for playing music, setting alarms, and reminders, but even there I run into bugs on a regular basis. One day she stopped being able to find songs from Apple Music, but could still play anything I'd saved to my phone (wasn't reception or CarPlay permissions or any of the obvious troubleshooting things you'd think, trust me I looked into it).
Sometimes she'll also misinterpret commands for unclear reasons. "Tomorrow at 7am, remind me to call John" and she responds "Ok, I've turned on your 7am alarm". I try again, speaking more clearly, and she says "Your 7am alarm is already on"
Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#93I love my iPhone, it's a great device. However, quite literally the only two things I use Siri for are asking "what song is this?" and "set a timer for X minutes." I'm sure there are ways I could be using it for any number of things that might improve some routine process in my life, but I never found them.
The most impressive thing I can get Siri to do is "Hey Siri, play my on Spotify", and it works consistently. "Hey Siri, reply." is another decent one, but it seems to be working poorly lately.
Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's useless beyond manipulating iDevices, navigation tasks and simple questions. Even then, if you don't ask in the exact right way it often doesn't work.
Is this any different than Alexa or Google, though? I guess Google is probably better at looking up facts and Alexa at ordering stuff (if buying things without even seeing a picture is your thing), but neither is that useful. Is this not just a case of voice interfaces being much harder to do right than people originally hoped? (I say this as someone who has a Google Home that I use regularly, but mostly as a kitchen…
At this point it will be a race see which virtual assistant can become universally useful first, and from what the article is implying Siri is not anywhere close to where they need it to be.
Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#95Siri is nice. Use it for a variety of things. Although would hurt if it is not worked on and improved.
Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#96Let's accept it! Apple sucks at anything that involves learning from large volumes of data.
Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#97Siri, 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…
The worst part about Siri in my opinion is how it can do bulk actions when it mishears you. You want the ceiling light off? Okay, turning off all the lights. Or the opposite, it turns *everything* on, which can be even more annoying.
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#98I generally like Siri and rarely experience bugs. I use it to set timers, get the weather, play music via Spotify, occasionally dictate text messages, and look up trivia mid-conversation. It's been my replacement for Alexa ever since I got creeped out by Amazon's audio data retention. In this context I'm suprised to hear Apple employees are unhappy with it.
Hey Siri, “add 2 minutes to the timer”. It can’t even do something so basic as that.
The inability to set multiple simultaneous timers is annoying. I compensate by setting multiple alarms. "Delete all my alarms" works when I'm done, but it's certainly a hack.
Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#99It used to be smarter, I think they dumbed it down to save money or something.
Re: Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says
#100I switched to typing to Siri instead of using my voice [1]. I also disabled all triggers for Siri. Now I invoke it by pressing power button then type away.
It's more useful than dictating when I need something quick and discretely.
When chatbots arrive on iPhone, this is how I'll be talking to it.