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Siri is hit and miss, but setting timers (for cooking) always works. > Hey Siri, set a timer for 8 minutes. > Ok. 8 minutes and counting.
by colejohnson66 6y ago
Siri is hit and miss, but setting timers (for cooking) always works.
> Hey Siri, set a timer for 8 minutes.
> Ok. 8 minutes and counting.
- baldeagle 6y ago4 minute timers are hard. I normally drop the ‘for’ and it gets super confused. “Set a four minute timer”
- dkonofalski 6y agoYou can also say "Set a timer for four minutes".
- dkonofalski 6y agoFine, you can also say "Set a timer", pause for a hot take, and then say "four minutes" and it's fine. I just tried it and it worked without any issue.
- baldeagle 6y agoThank you. I’ll try to add a beat.
- wgx 6y agoSiri is the world's most powerful AI-timer-setter.
- anoncake 6y agoSetting timers is apparently surprisingly hard! Google Assistant frequently just tells me to set the timer in the app.
- Grazester 6y agoUse it all the time for cooking with multiple timers. No issue here.
- rileytg 6y agowhen i was a working chef, i used this NON-STOP. it is actually the first real “tech” i’ve ever brought into a (real working) kitchen that provided real value instead of gimmick
- noja 6y agoYou worked as a chef and used a single timer in Siri and were happy with that? How?! (Siri doesn't support more than one concurrent timer)
- reaperducer 6y agoSiri doesn't support more than one concurrent timer I can't speak for the chef, but it does on HomePod. Each gets its own name and that name is announced when the alarm goes off. "bleep bloop bleepity boop! Eggs timer. bleep bloop bleepity boop!
- noja 6y agoSo multiple timers only work if I get a HomePod and talk to Siri on that?
- nogridbag 6y agoI miss the days of instruction manuals. Alexa has always (?) supported concurrent timers but it wasn't until recently that it started asking me if I want to name my timers. But it tries to be "smart" and only ask me when it thinks I need to name them. I only figured out through trial and error that I can name my Alexa timers without waiting for it to prompt me: > Alexa, set a pasta timer for 10 minutes > - Pasta timer, 10 minutes, starting now. > Alexa, cancel pasta timer > - Pasta timer canceled
- addandsubtract 6y agoAlexa, let pastaTimer equal 600. While pastaTimer greater than zero, pastaTimer minus minus. Sleep 1. End while. Play alarm dot mp3.
- gibolt 6y agoAlexa is mostly good with timers/alarms, but occasionally will swap 15/50 or 8/80. If you miss hearing the distinction in the confirmation, you'll miss the scheduled event Edit: They also have distinct classification of alarm/timers. You can use either word to create one but checking what you've set or trying to cancel will result in 'no timers/alarms' set if your request doesn't match their system design.
- _jal 6y agoThis is literally the only useful thing voice assistance does in my life.
- pacifika 6y agoFor you maybe. > Hey Siri, set a timer for 13 minutes > 30 minutes and counting. > Hey Siri, set a timer for thirteen minutes. > oh you already have a timer running, do you want me to change it? > yes Also I have set timers and lock the phone ‘too early’ and the timer was lost
- Strom 6y agoI have the opposite problem where Siri always starts a timer for 13 minutes when I want 30. I've adjusted to setting the timer for 31 minutes.
- faebi 6y agoIt used to be like this for me too. Recently I can‘t use siri anymore when the ventilation is already running. After I said my sentence it keeps listening to the noise forever until it gives up, even though it understood my first sentence perfectly.
- ssdspoimdsjvv 6y agoIt's 2020 and that's still everything virtual assistants are good for. It's kind of sad, really.
- warp 6y agoI've had great success with the Google smart speaker with "Hey Google, turn off the Living Room TV". I do have to specify "Living Room TV", even though the speaker and chromecast are configured to be in the same room, it still just turns off a bedroom tv if I'm not specific about which tv. Also "Hey Google, turn off the Xbox" works, because I linked that at some point. So not just timers! ;)
- disillusioned 6y agoThere's a setting in Google Home where you can alias which TV a given speaker is paired to as its default so you don't have to name the TV. If you have a device _named_ TV, that goes out the window, though.
- reaperducer 6y agoIt's 2020 and that's still everything virtual assistants are good for. It's kind of sad, really. The thing I use Siri most for is "Hey, Siri. Tell me a joke." My dream job is to work at Apple compiling jokes for Siri to belch out on demand.
- andruby 6y agoThe short version works well too. “Timer 8 minutes”
- lagadu 6y agoNo joke, this is the one thing I use my Echo for: as stuff is cooking I set timers for each of them and it works perfectly. It does virtually nothing else well but it's a fantastic keeper of timers.
- scott_s 6y agoAlso: Wake me up at 7.
- nmstoker 6y agoGoogle Assistant on my phone just got better at handling timers. It used to do a cheesy "Starting your timer.... Now", which would have been okay if a bit tedious repeatedly, apart from the fact that actually you could see that the timer started immediately, so the whole delayed "now" thing was completely misleading. It was like that for well over a year until I noticed it was fixed just recently.