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you just be right because i literally never use it, but what would make it better in your opinion?
Where do I start?
If “hey Siri” would actually work
If it would actually search the web when I ask questions it isn’t programmed to know
If I didn’t have to repeat myself 20 times despite teaching it my voice and being 1 foot away from the phone.
Siri is basically a fancy timer setter for me, and even then I use Alexa if I’m in my house because it can do things like “add an extra minute to my timer.”
I’ve found, I think, that saying “hey Siri” often doesn’t work if I haven’t said it in a while. But not always. It seems it always works when I’m using it over and over for a while.
Now, with the existence of Chat GPT, they could easily integrate that with Siri like Microsoft is to their… well everything. It wouldn’t make her perfect, but she would be decent.
Couldn’t agree more on all points.
Point 4 though, same setup, no other music apps. I just push my voice button and say “play shut up by stormzy” or the kids might just ask for “play the hamilton soundtrack” and instantly get the playback.
Did Siri write this?!
Might be worth pointing out that I'm trialing a Fold4 at the moment and I have found that Siri is MASSIVELY better and more responsive than Google Assistant.
Hey Siri works every time
Hey Siri has worked more when I didn’t want it to after I forgot to disable it than it has when I actually needed it to.
I use Spotify…..never have had a problem in my car
Only thing I have to hard disagree with is 1)
I’ve put my phone in so many random places or it’s fallen off my bed or couch after a call (take a lot of conf calls there) that “hey siri” has saved my ass. Before hey siri I actually had to log in to some shady online service to dial my phone.
“I found this website for you”
“You have to unlock your phone first”
Would be nice if it actually answered question like Alexa instead of giving me web results. Can't look up web results when I'm driving
Function in the car. I use her probably more than most for HomeKit functions and timers and stuff but when I’m in the car, half the time she tells me she can’t do that when I’m driving. Well shit, guess what I’m gonna do when I can’t use my virtual assistant in the car? I’m gonna pick up my phone at a red light and create a situation that a virtual assistant was specifically created to avoid.
Meanwhile the Alexa built into my Ford’s radio will happily give me encyclopedia answers to questions while driving to settle arguments/random questions on car rides. I asked it how much 10$ in 1975 is worth now (about $60) and it legit gave me an answer on my drive home.
I use Siri in my AirPods every day because I drive around for work and it’s horrible. She always asks if she should send texts before she repeats them (9 out of 10 times she hears me completely wrong and I have to attempt saying my text over and over), and never asks for confirmation before calling someone (I never use my phone for calls so it’s always awkward)
If it would understand me better. English is not my first language, and I have to say “hey siri” In a funny accent for it to actually active and listen to me🥲 and I would say my English is quite good and I speak it without a problem, but Siri seems to not like it still.
It’s speech recognition sucks
“Because I literally never use it”
I don’t even remember that it exists half the time
Last year I could control all of my lights quickly and reliably with:
“[Light Group] + [color] &/+ [two digit number for brightness]”
That is now broken and I have no clue how to get Siri to interact with my lights. I forgot what used to work because that broke two years ago and I smoke weed.