- not autostart everytime someone says:
- ssssht!
- see this?
- Nice weather today
- any other normal phrase
- actually find what I want
- understand that “remind me to do X” actually does mean “add this to reminders” and not start playing random music
- generally be useful instead of tech fluff
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I would love for this sequence to work:
Siri, open Music app
Siri, show albums by…
Siri scroll down
Siri play…
My car’s infotainment system has a voice interface. On any screen there’s a limited set of commands available, that roughly correspond to screen touch commands for the current screen. It’s somewhat primitive, but it lets you do nearly everything with your hands free, and it works nearly 100% of the time. Siri is worse than useless when I’m driving because it gets things wrong so often that if I try to use it, I find myself having to pay more attention to verifying and correcting (or finding that the thing that would be actually useful and should be actually simple, isn’t actually possible).
Wow! That was more ranty than I intended: Siri is very good at inspiring me to be angry 
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odd, never had to recalibrate Alexa or OK Google…
Yes, I don’t know for sure what’s going on with your situation, sorry. I haven’t had to recalibrate Siri myself. It’s very good at timers.
This. Trying to cancel navigation, I’ve had Siri do several bizarre things. Several times it claimed we weren’t navigating anywhere, as the audio was actively interrupted by the next set of directions. Multiple times it’s thought I wanted directions to someplace new. And of course there’s always the “Got it…On it…Hmmmm…something went wrong.” progression.
I get the same sort of thing, even with it on-device.
Here’s something for the list - when recalibrating Siri per Apple directions…could it maybe work? I had to flip the toggle back and forth 4-5 times (waiting a significant amount of time each time) before it decided to give me the calibration thing.
Do simple things, like “walking directions home”
Or add reminders to a single row when I want it to:
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I don’t use Siri, but I probably would if it had advanced enough to be like the ship’s computer like on Star Trek 
“Computer, set oven to cook dinner for 6pm.”
Yes great idea…
Here is concept… When you ask Siri a question it currently basically searches the web and comes up with an answer.
Why can’t it also search your reminders and notes and calendar apps also? And I mean without creating complex Apple shortcuts.
Why can’t you ask Siri: what are my important tasks or events or notes etc? … Then get a nice list (without shortcuts).
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Re: red milk – are you from the south? I’m from NC and that’s what I grew up calling it, but folks elsewhere don’t use that term.
As in whole milk with a red label and cap?
(Had to google that)
Exactly!
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I’m from the UK. There are three types of dairy milk commonly available: whole (blue), semi skimmed (green) and skimmed (red) referring to the fat content.
Most people in the uk refer to it as the type rather than colour.
Whatever the thing is you want to add, I would expect the adjective (I.e., the colour in my case) to be included on the same line.
I’ve tried it with other things and it seems to work fine, which makes it more frustrating!
I just wish it had the capability to meaningfully control the device. It doesn’t feel like much of an assistant if you can’t zip through apps and actions without some sort of shortcut. It’s the one thing I’ll give Samsung’s Bixby (who? exactly), it is impressive what it can do with the phone itself from a control perspective.
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Some random (non-)fun today.
“Hey Siri, call _______”.
Both my watch and my phone apparently picked it up. The phone dialed the number, then somehow the watch got the phone to put that dialed call on hold, and call that same number again. That seems like the sort of thing that a virtual assistant might want to check for. 
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I wish that Siri would remember that I prefer her Irish accent over her Australian accent, and not whimsically / randomly change the accent back to Australian every so often.
My wife is Irish and I am from New Zealand.
An Australian accent is not acceptable!
Undertand that after a few corrections ewe and you are NOT the same!
I’d prefer he default to the sheepy version. (I use the UK British Male voice for my Siri. His recognition of what I really mean is better than the female versions either US or UK)
In general better trainability to what I say and what I really mean as text.
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I wish Siri was a little cleverer.
‘Hey Siri, Tell my wife she is beautiful” got the response “Who is she?”
… which is infinitely better than, “Which one is she?”
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Open.ai (who invented GPT-3) recently released and open-sourced a speech recognition and translation neural network, which can, for instance, translate K-Pop songs to English. An example commercial for Micro Machines (very fast English) is on their blog linked below. Maybe Apple will incorporate it into Siri.
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I’ve been experimenting with this over the last few days, for interview transcription. I’m pleased with the 1x results, but it’s taken about an hour for every few minutes of dialogue on an M1 Max. I haven’t evaluated the quality of the smaller models yet. It also doesn’t do speaker disambiguation yet, you have to split the tracks yourself re-assemble later (whisper outputs timestamps, so you just have to merge and order them with a script.)