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by sequoia6 hours ago |
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upvoteby itopaloglu835 hours ago|
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Here's a recent conversation I had with Siri.

Me: Hey Siri, set the living room lights to 100%.

Siri: 100% = 1

This has been working for 6-7 years without any issues, and suddenly Siri is giving me math lessons. What the hell is happening in this company?

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upvoteby amluto4 hours ago|
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Me: Hey Siri, turn on the [such and such] light

Siri: Shows the literal text “Hey Siri, turn on the [such and such] light” on the screen and does absolutely nothing. It’s an edit box. Pressing enter has no effect.

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upvoteby dd8601fn2 hours ago|
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Siri is about old enough to be getting a drivers license now, and I swear it's going through the same brain development woes.
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upvoteby trca4 hours ago|
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Same thing has happened to me with Siri. It's absolutely garbage.

For years, I've said "Hey Siri, turn on Bright" because I have a "Bright" Home scene configured. About 2 months ago, the HomePod updated and now responds consistently with "Pause in the bedroom?"

Nothing is playing in the Bedroom. Nothing CAN play in the bedroom, there's just lights in the Bedroom. No speakers. What the heck is it even _trying_ to pause.

It's infuriating.

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upvoteby pradn5 hours ago|
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It's extremely painful that there's are free, OSS dictation tools that can run on-device, that are so much better than Apple's dictation, and yet it's quite difficult to use them on the iPhone. I'm referring to Whispr. Microphone access is a pain for custom keyboards -- for good reason, but still.
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upvoteby dkga6 hours ago|
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Same frustration here. It’s somewhat painful for me to type but using dictation on the iphone is so terrible I prefer the physical pain.

As for names, I an also baffled. Most people in my family have either a Brazilian Portuguese or German name, but my work life is in English, so guess what, no getting anyone’s name right!

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upvoteby jama2116 hours ago|
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I still use spoken punctuation and it works ok so long as you don’t pause. E.g. “ hey siri text my wife I’m not sure when I’ll be home comma but I’ll text you when I’m leaving” if I say that without pausing, it puts the comma in the right place
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upvoteby anonymars6 hours ago|
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I think the point is the opposite. Heaven forbid you might need to take a moment to think: now you get a comma or period
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upvoteby jama2111 hours ago|
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Perhaps but it was always like that so it hasn’t regressed
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upvoteby citiguy6 hours ago|
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I struggled with family member names too until I realized I can create shortcuts for them (usually just their initials). Now I just type the shortcut and it always works. Joy!
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