> On 21 Jan 2021, at 11:20, philchillbill > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm the author of the Alexa skills for LMS so let me address your point > on voice control of LMS via Siri and why it is (currently) not > available. > > The voice control paradigm is complementary to using a GUI and not > intended to replace it. If you want to browse a library then nothing > beats a touchscreen or a chromebook on your lap for browsing and e.g. > seeing something you haven't played in a while and deciding to listen to > it. Voice comes into its own when you don't have a screen or keyboard > handy or your hands are full, like when under the shower or chopping > vegetables or changing diapers. It's also great for doing something > decisive and concise like kicking off playback of a named favorite radio > station or a daily playlist. The advantage of a dedicated room-based > speech device like an Amazon Echo (or HomePod) is that the spoken > response from Alexa/Siri will be properly audible with background > distractions, unlike the Siri response from an iPhone laid down > somewhere in the vicinity. To date, almost all Siri use is via iPhones > because Apple has sold a dismal number of HomePods. But, if you have a > smartphone at the ready for Siri use, why would you choose to talk to it > instead of just using iPeng or Material on it? > > I have 12 Amazon Echos in my house and 10 Squeezeboxes and I heavily use > voice control for almost everything in my (very) smart home, but other > household members struggle to remember the correct syntax for even 5% of > the commands. Voice control is very divisive and you either love it or > hate it. Most of the LMS community (by far) are haters. Voice control is > pickier than you may realise for how exactly you word a command and is > very unforgiving of humming and hawing. Siri is much, much worse than > Alexa or Google Assistant in this respect. > > LMS and its plugins/skills/actions/shortcuts is a community development > and there has to be enough traction behind a platform to get developers > interested to spend time. It's not commercially motivated but more a > hobby or personal-interest. I wrote the Alexa skills for my own use and > put over 800 hours of effort into them, so (subsequently) making them > available to the community made that effort more justified in my mind. > If anybody wants to do the same for Siri then it's their choice. I could > have targeted Siri because we are iPhone/iPad users and also mixed > PC/Mac users at home, but the market share of HomePod vs Echo made that > a really easy choice not to opt for Siri. Just because a household is an > 'Apple household' does not automatically mean that you should try to do > everything on your Apple devices. Pick your device ecosystem wisely and > don't try to fit square pegs into round holes just because you have > round holes - get a few square ones too for when it makes more sense. > > Just my 2 cents.
I must agree, that I thought about using Alexa as well (one reason is the skill you developed), but I decided against it. The discussion why is not relevant to the topic at all. Let’s just say, I had my reasons why I want to stick with Siri (despite it’s shortcomings). The situation with HomePods will likely change, once the HomePod Mini becomes available. And there is one device, which you have forgotten: the Apple Watch for Siri. Cheers, Rainer > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113721 > > _______________________________________________ > plugins mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
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