Siri is almost comically bad. Just one recent anecdote:

When discussing a Jeopardy answer with my wife, I say "Hey Siri, who was Pol Pot". Siri said, "OK, calling Scott". So it woke up my friend at 1am..

And if I hear another "I found this on the web", I'm going to scream.

Siri is so bad it makes me want to go back to a pixel.

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apparent an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There was a time when Siri would confirm before making a phone call. But now it will call anyone, including people I've literally never called (and rarely text), without confirmation. This seems like a bad outcome that is very easy to fix.

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nahikoa 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I had a nearly identical anecdote. I was driving my car to work soon I had moved to the Bay Area. I wanted to know what city I was currently on.

"Hey Siri, what city am I in?"

"Calling Ian"

	▲	venturecruelty 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Was Ian able to help, at least?

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raw_anon_1111 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We need to separate three separate issues. I work with call centers and I always need to discuss all three

1. Voice to text transcriptions

2. Text to understanding

3. Adding capabilities where it can do something with #2.

The voice to text that Siri uses seems to be worse than when you are dictating using voice to text from the keyboard.

The latter gets close to 100% with my southern native English accent and does okay when I’m trying to speak Spanish. Siri messes up with English a lot more and it’s a lost cause when I try to speak Spanish.

	▲	zarzavat an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have a British accent and the speech-to-text from the keyboard is also terrible. Honestly with these assistants I'd rather just type my query. Voice input is embarrassing and error-prone. The only place that voice input is useful is in the kitchen.
	▲	bombcar 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		When they switched to "ML" (this was way before ChatGPT ate the world) Siri's speech to text went to absolute shit. I suspect they had a very carefully hand-crafted model before, and replaced it with an ML model "that will fix itself over time" - and it never did.

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davedx an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah this is one reason I've ordered a OnePlus as my next phone.

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discordance 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's always shocked me how dogshit Siri is. I run into this one every day:

"Siri, play some music"

"Sorry you will need to unlock your phone to do that"

"Siri, play some music"

	▲	tyre 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This but the response to the second command is, “I found some web results…”
	▲	nerdponx 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I wish I could speak my unlock code so I didn't have to, you know, take my eyes off the road in order to play music or change my GPS destination or something like that. I'm not saying that way to solve a problem, but I refuse to believe that it has to be as bad as it is. The worst part is that it's still better than the alternative of leaving the iOS ecosystem. Apple is just so bizarre in general. I would say "nowadays" but I think they have always been like this. It took them how many decades to add a unit converter to the iPhone? And after all that time, they buried it in a menu in the Calculator app?

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NaomiLehman an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

hey war criminal talk is reserved for before midnight only!

"here are some pictures of pot pot"