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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by gimme_treefiddy on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:53PM (#35731009)
Is it just me or Siri is very bad at picking up accents (mine isn't that bad having lived in the US for a while) and background noise.

One of the more impressive things about using the Google's voice assistant was, it did very well in noisy environments. Whereas with Siri, that is quite a bit of struggle. This is only about speech-to-text, not text-to-whatever.

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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by neurobama on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:00PM (#35731127)
It deals with my oven fan and similar regular kitchen noise pretty well. I hold it close to my mouth at parties, so I can't really compare it to e.g. Google Home or Alexa's far-field capability.
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Re:Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its f... by mikelward on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:38AM (#35738186)
The Google Home on my kitchen counter hears very poorly if I talk behind it instead of in front of it.
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