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I switched to car play and use Siri a lot more then I used to. For most things it is fine. Others... this could help. One thing I would like to know is why Sir

I switched to car play and use Siri a lot more then I used to. For most things it is fine. Others... this could help. One thing I would like to know is why Siri cannot answer basic questions about what music is on my phone. For example, “what albums by New Order do I have on my iPhone?”. That does not work but “play album Substance 1987 by New Order” does.

robin_reala 8y ago
Siri on CarPlay is useless for me. Maybe it’s my situation (RP British English, driving in Sweden) but it usually takes 10 attempts to get it to recognise a track I want to be played, and getting routing information is easily double that for anything other than ‘drive home’. I one tried to get it to route me to ‘Malmö’ (third largest city in Sweden) and gave up after 30 attempts. I honestly have no idea what I’m doing wrong, but I suspect nothing and it’s just useless software.
- Angostura 8y ago
  As another RP speaker using CarPlay, it works well. However you do have to heavily anglicise placenames when abroad. So I just tried ‘ get directions to Mal-moe’ and it worked first time.
  - hug 8y ago
    As someone who speaks in a strong Cultivated Australian accent, I fear Siri will never get me.
    - jacobush 8y ago
      Ubicomps colonial impulse at work. Siri may not adapt to speakers, but speakers will adapt to her. https://www.academia.edu/14861357/Ubicomps_colonial_impulse https://www.academia.edu/14861357/Ubicomps_colonial_impulse
- thirdsun 8y ago
  I'm not sure if this has changed yet, but until recently Siri regularly failed to recognize artists, albums or titles, which often happen to be english, if the device/siri was set to a different language. In my case that's german and I can't count the number of times I had to pronounce the artists I wanted Siri to play in a ridiculously german way. English is so ubiquitous that, in my opinion, all Siri queries should be checked for both local language and english.
  - myrandomcomment 8y ago
    Yup. Mixed language is a pain. Set to English by default but when I ask for something in Japanese or Mandarin it does no work well.

robin_reala 8y ago

Siri on CarPlay is useless for me. Maybe it’s my situation (RP British English, driving in Sweden) but it usually takes 10 attempts to get it to recognise a track I want to be played, and getting routing information is easily double that for anything other than ‘drive home’. I one tried to get it to route me to ‘Malmö’ (third largest city in Sweden) and gave up after 30 attempts. I honestly have no idea what I’m doing wrong, but I suspect nothing and it’s just useless software.

Angostura 8y ago
As another RP speaker using CarPlay, it works well. However you do have to heavily anglicise placenames when abroad. So I just tried ‘ get directions to Mal-moe’ and it worked first time.
- hug 8y ago
  As someone who speaks in a strong Cultivated Australian accent, I fear Siri will never get me.
  - jacobush 8y ago
    Ubicomps colonial impulse at work. Siri may not adapt to speakers, but speakers will adapt to her. https://www.academia.edu/14861357/Ubicomps_colonial_impulse https://www.academia.edu/14861357/Ubicomps_colonial_impulse
thirdsun 8y ago
I'm not sure if this has changed yet, but until recently Siri regularly failed to recognize artists, albums or titles, which often happen to be english, if the device/siri was set to a different language. In my case that's german and I can't count the number of times I had to pronounce the artists I wanted Siri to play in a ridiculously german way. English is so ubiquitous that, in my opinion, all Siri queries should be checked for both local language and english.
- myrandomcomment 8y ago
  Yup. Mixed language is a pain. Set to English by default but when I ask for something in Japanese or Mandarin it does no work well.