Friday, March 29

Apple wants you to stop saying “Hey Siri” | Digital Trends Spanish


Most people with a device Manzana they know that the easiest way to access your digital assistant is to yell “hey siri«.

But now it looks like Apple is aiming to simplify the wake phrase by removing the word “Hey” and going with just “Siri.”

Word of the change comes from trusted Apple analyst Mark Gurman. In a report for Bloomberg on Sunday, Gurman notes that while he may seem a easy change to make, the effort to make it happen requires a “significant amount of AI training and underlying engineering work.”

The challenge apparently comes in getting Siri to reliably recognize the word “Siri” in different accents and dialects. It also gives Siri engineers one less syllable to work with compared to “Hey, Siri.” As a result, to avoid accidental and potentially awkward situations where the digital assistant unexpectedly wakes up, Apple wants to make sure the new wake command works perfectly before rolling it out, so we may have to wait until “next year.” or the following year» for it to arrive.

Apple is also reportedly interested in integrating Siri more deeply into third-party apps and services, while also improving its ability to understand commands and respond correctly.

Engineers have been working on the updates for the past several months and have been testing them out on employees, Gurman said.

Similar digital assistants developed by Amazon and Google also require wake words to start. Amazon only requires you to say a single word, “Alexa,” while Google relies on “OK, Google” as a prompt.

Fortunately, if there is a human or pet in your home named Alexa, a situation that could cause endless mishaps if you use any of Amazon’s smart devices, then Amazon’s system allows you to change the wake word to “Amazon”, “Echo” or “Computer.”

In his report, Gurman says he wishes Apple would let him choose, by voice, which Siri device he wants to respond to. “Let me pull out the world’s smallest fiddle here for owners of multiple Apple devices, but the company really should allow users to specify whether they want to activate their iPhone, iPad, or HomePod for Siri,” the journalist wrote.

Of course, if you want to prevent your Apple device from always listening to Siri’s wake word, it’s easy to do. On the iPhone, for example, just select Settings, Siri, and Search, then toggle “listen for ‘Hey, Siri.’

For an easy way to activate the digital assistant without calling, turn on “press side button for Siri,” located in the same Settings section.

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