Anyone notice siri no longer recognizes common foreign idoms anymore? Either in TTS or Ask Siri… The only concrete example I have is recognizing “Croque Monsieur” since my love for hot ham sandwiches has spanned the ages… but I feel like there’s something more nefarious at work here.
It feels like used to be able to ask for a info about random foreign words and it would at least trigger a web search for something phonetically similar, which would often get me the translation I was after. But lately* the TTS engine is militantly transforming everything into English. Obviously this is more subtle and open to other interpretations, but for example I just asked her what “hikikomori” were which got interpreted as “Hickam Morty,” with top hits for the show Rick and Morty.
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SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 1y
Siri isn't as young as she once was. Maybe try speaking a little louder than usual.
sramder@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I did ponder the possibility of my mics just getting worn out, but clarity is still excellent in audio recording and generally for TTS or questions in straight English. I suspect Apple tweaked the model to exclude some of the phrases I had grown accustomed to using because they were being falsely recognized.
windowsphoneguy@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y
Always has been
drewaustin@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
Man, it seems like she is getting more useless by the day. It’s really sad how much the development of Siri has been left to flounder since its introduction.
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Why are you calling a polite irish male voice "she"?
Nikls94@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Old people had no option. Siri had a female voice, it was a she. Now it is an it, the Siri is just an artificial helper, either male or famale, two voices each. Siri can be what you want it to be.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Are you noticing this on multiple devices or just one? I know I start to have dictation trouble when my iPhone microphones get too loaded with debris. A clean dry toothbrush will get it clean without too much effort.
sramder@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Same behavior on my iPad. Although I can’t rule out the mics on my phone going south, it soaks up a lot more abuse than iPad Siri.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
maybe you’re mumbling more?
sramder@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Possibly. Though I patiently tested the sandwich scenario.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Seems like the same old pre-iOS 18.1 Siri to me. Famously bad.
brettvitaz@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1y
Siri on iOS v18.1 knows what
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sramder@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Noice :-) I’m going to have to work on my pronunciation then 😳
Stovetop@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
sramder@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I’m honestly very impressed with the speech recognition. I played with dragon dictate years ago when it needed “about 2 weeks” worth of training to achieve 98% accuracy.
Thanks for the tips. I think I’m going to see if I can get it to work — with a little practice.
ChrisG@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Rart ya arr guvvna
JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y
First pass reading the title I thought it read "Still getting dumber lately?" And I'm just like "Yup!"
sramder@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Time comes for us all my friend.
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
She does seem to have more trouble interpreting some of my requests. To my frustration Siri will show me a correct transcription of what I said and then still ask for confirmation. Or even worse she'll ask me to repeat the entire request after producing a correct transcription. This happens a lot when using HomeKit.
sramder@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Huh… that sounds a proper bug. I don’t really do anything advanced with HomeKit, just my Hue lights.
I wasn’t having the problem you described, but I did get a few odd glitches after the last update. She would sometimes complain that a light couldn’t be found. Turned out to be an extra space at the end of the names of some bulbs… very hard to see in most UIs, it wasn’t until I just idly renamed one in the Hue app that I realized what had happened.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
it would never even occur to me to ask Siri about such things. I'm surprised it ever worked for you.
sramder@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Blame that bit in Mr. Robot where the FBI agent asked Alexa when the universe was going to end. I’m always curious what a system is capable of…
ChrisG@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
All of the digital assistants appear to be degrading to me. I suspect directing consumers to paid ‘AI’ versions which allegedly work, are the corporate plan.
undefined@links.hackliberty.org · 2 pts · 1y
I have Siri remind me to make more ice often, but if I say it too fast it’s “make more rice.”
sramder@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I enjoy going back through my to-do list and trying to remember what I asked for. Generally it’s full of things I keep putting off, so it’s all past due and the occasional miss is easy to spot ;-)
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz · -1 pts · 1y
works fine on Android
sramder@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
LOL 😆