John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team

Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by saagarjha on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:46PM (#18729436)

If it makes you feel better, the “always on” recordings never leave your device. They’re not even that great at recognizing anything other than “this sounds like a ‘hey Siri’”.

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by SlowRobotAhead on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:21PM (#18729714)

For a fun experiment, yell RED FIRE TRUCK into your phone then immediately activate Siri manually.

With Hey Siri turned on, you will reliably get all three words. With it off, you will usually get Chuck or Truck, or sometimes FIRETRUCK depending on timing.

This seems to be for people who start talking before the Siri prompt is fully active like “Set <button> Timer for 5 minutes”.

But shows that Apple is typically pre-recording if not also pre-processing.

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by ryanwaggoner on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:11PM (#18730429)

I don’t get anything, just activates Siri normally.

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by SlowRobotAhead on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:40AM (#18731619)

I’m on iphone8 and can get it to happen reliably. Weird.

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