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I always felt that Siri was named with the intent that it could be used as a wake word (so you could say "Siri what's the weather today?") because Siri itself i
by Darthy 9y ago
I always felt that Siri was named with the intent that it could be used as a wake word (so you could say "Siri what's the weather today?") because Siri itself is a rare given name and [si ri] are sounds rarely said at the beginning of a sentence.
And then at some point Apple realized they had to make a longer wake word to cut down the number of false positives ("Siri" -> "Hey Siri", from 2 syllables to 3).
Google probably went through the same process ("Google" -> "Okay Google", from 2 syllables to 4).
Amazon probably deliberately chose a 3 syllable name with "Alexa" for the same reason.
I can imagine future improvements where we can have the originally imagined wake words "Siri", "Google" and "Alexa", and at that point I would be most happy with "Siri" because it would be short and not-corporate.
- osteele 9y agoSiri (the company) was a spin-off from SRI – Stanford Research Institute. The initial product, before the Apple acquisition, was an iPhone app with a chat interface. I don't recall that it supported voice input. It is still possible that the founders were thinking ahead to voice input and wake words when they named the company.
- woodson 9y agoThe technology was initially developed under the DARPA CALO research program (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALO https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALO).
- athenot 9y agoIt's my understanding Siri came from SRI Labs and who sold the technology to Apple.
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- knodi123 9y ago> and [si ri] are sounds rarely said at the beginning of a sentence. seriously?
- Darthy 9y agoYes, because the first two phonetic syllables of "Seriously" are [sɪ rɪə], which makes it different.