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Siri is the world's most powerful AI-timer-setter.
by wgx 6y ago
Siri 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.
- jdminhbg 6y ago> (Siri doesn't support more than one concurrent timer) It has for at least the past couple years now.
- noja 6y agoI just tried it. It doesn't: Hey Siri, set a timer for 5 minutes. "OK." Hey Siri, set another timer for 10 minutes. "A timer is already running, do you want to replace it?"