I personally find that most of the time Siri doesn't do simple thingts correctly it is because I speak too quickly. There is a definite difference in how quickly Siri listens in iOS 16, whether this because of the new tone or because of something different I don't know, but sometimes I ask Siri to "Call John Smith" for lack of a better name and I get "What would you like to know about John Smith". It says this because I spoke too quickly and Siri didn't hear the "Call" part and instead only heard "John Smith". But I do agree that in many ways Siri can be extremely dense and stupid considering Apple came out with Siri 12 years ago. Sometimes for some reason it won't even do a simple conversion and instead I get the answer"I found the following on the web about..."
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 10:45 AM To: via VIPhone <[email protected]> Subject: Siri’s selective hearing problem still prevails at the end of the iOS 16 cycle Way back at the beginning of iOS 16’s cycle, people were complaining about the new tone for Siri and about problems getting Siri to respond appropriately. I was certainly one of those people. N Now, many months later, I’m still one of those people. Certain things I can ask. Siri never screws up. Open the App Store, for instance. I don’t think it ever missed that command. But open BARD Mobile. Open the name of my credit union, and many other open commands as often as not meet with some stupidity about what it found on the web or how it doesn’t think I have such an app, even though it has opened the app many times in the past. I thought it was supposed to have some kind of on device machine learning, which would help it disambiguate things it wasn’t sure of. This must not be true, because its overall performance has maintained its low level, whereas on iOS 15, the very same Siri with the very same commands yields reasonable results almost all of the time. So, whatever Apple did in iOS 16 has not been fixed as far as I’m concerned. I can only hope they do better in iOS 17. Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/311891D9-66E6-476A-A004-1BA22AE9E5A7%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/PH7PR12MB5656CA5E5C4502032886915AC755A%40PH7PR12MB5656.namprd12.prod.outlook.com.
