Personalized Hey Siri

Re:Personalized Hey Siri by brd529 on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:26PM (#16853410)

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'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!

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by StephenMelon on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:10PM (#16853796)

Unfortunately “Hey Siri” starts to grate the 70th time you say it in 3 days. I would actually now rather walk across the room to touch the Homepod than have to say the phrase so much. It’s still in uncanny valley territory a lot of the time as it isn’t smart enough to keep context between interactions or react in a human-like way.

I think a retroactive activation feature would be the way to go, ie. be able to say “Siri” at the end of a sentence and have it parse the phrase that came before. It feels more natural to say “skip this please Siri” than “Hey Siri, skip” because it lets you amend the mistake of not identifying the subject earlier in the sentence rather than the phrase-exasperation-hey Siri-phrase.

I asked Siri to DJ and my daughter said “hey Siri, I don’t like that song”. Siri said “I’ll remember that” and played something else. Now I have no idea how to amend Siri’s notion that I dislike one of my favourite tracks. There should really be a Homepod app where you can see recent interactions and correct misinterpreted ones.

There are also some artists and tracks with unusual spellings that are always going to cause problems for a voice interface and so they need a solution for that.

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by randcraw on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:48PM (#16854427)

It could be worse. "OK Google" is annoying the first time you say it.

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by lstamour on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @01:47AM (#16855825)

You can say “Hey Google” now, though it’s not quite as smooth as Alexa.

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by JeremyBanks on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @08:39AM (#16857707)

I recommend "Eh, Google!" 🇨🇦

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by TheForumTroll on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:55PM (#16854467)

Hard call when the functionality is far better with OK Google.

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by dkonofalski on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:44PM (#16862590)

If you remember the song, you can play it again and say "Hey Siri, I love this song" to amend that. If you don't remember the song, you can go into Apple Music and view your votes and change from there.

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by crooked-v on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:14PM (#16854238)

Something about "Hey Siri, ..." is much more grating to me to say than "Alexa, ...". Maybe it's just that conjunction of phonemes being rare in English?

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by 2bitencryption on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:22PM (#16854292)

That's nothing compared to "Okay Google".

Try saying that three times fast. Actually, try saying it just once fast.

I always end up spitting out something like "Okaygggeellggglle"

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by ExactoKnight on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:17PM (#16854901)

It's utterly astonishing that Google still has the hubris not to give it a personal name.

People want to believe they're talking to a personal assistant, even if that isn't true, and Google is stupidly stripping them of that.

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by millstone on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:40AM (#16855518)

I think it’s just a branding thing. Notice how e.g. the app is named “Google Chrome” (but not “Mozilla Firefox”).

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by ExactoKnight on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:43PM (#16862576)

But in this case it doesn't work. I don't repeat the name "Chrome" 20 times a day like I will for a Google Home. This is a serious f*cking flaw and it actually makes me worry for Google's stock price that they can't see how obvious of a problem this is and/or are too paralyzed to fix it.

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by PerfectElement on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:49PM (#16854428)

You can say "Hey Google".

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by ExactoKnight on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:17PM (#16854904)

The "Hey" gets extremely grating after the fifth time in a row.

Amazon has it right on this with Alexa.

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by aaronmiler on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:38PM (#16853511)

I feel like this is a big missing piece for voice activated things. I've got an Echo device ~10ft from my TV, and it gets activated from Netflix (Parks & Rec mostly... I blame Rob Lowe) all the time. I should be able to go into the app and label it as a false activation so it can ignore it in the future

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by Art9681 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:06AM (#16858984)

The app already has a feature for that. It will keep a list of all the times it was activated and a recording you can play back of what phrase activated it. You can also tap a button to send feedback if it activated with the wrong phrase.

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by Endama on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:39PM (#16853522)

I'm sorry, this warmed my heart and terrified me at the same time. A hilariously adorable and obnoxious use of technology.

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