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I’m frankly surprised that Siri hasn’t moved to on-device voice recognition. It’s by far my biggest complaint with Siri: random, unpredictable delays or outrigh
by nneonneo 4y ago
I’m frankly surprised that Siri hasn’t moved to on-device voice recognition. It’s by far my biggest complaint with Siri: random, unpredictable delays or outright failures to recognize simple messages because the network is unstable or unavailable.
There’s other trash too: the other day I tried asking Siri to play a song from my library, but it misinterpreted the song title and proceeded to activate a seven day trial of Apple Music Voice to play some random track on Apple Music. I didn’t ask for that subscription!
To be fair, for the tiny subset of functionality I do use - navigate by voice, set timers, get terrible jokes to amuse passengers - it works fine.
- s3p 4y agoExcept they already do this? Since iOS 15, Siri has used on-device recognition. That's why you can go into Airplane mode and do things like ask Siri to change the brightness.
- mrbombastic 4y agoYes, incredibly frustrating that to ask Siri to play a song from your library on your device you need a network connection.
- moconnor 4y agoSiri does use on-device voice recognition. Active airplane mode and you can still use it. Edit: for some commands only it seems. I agree with OP, this is odd.
- shagie 4y agoIts a question of if it can determine the intent ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sirikit https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sirikit ) on device or if it needs to go to the cloud to understand it.
- nneonneo 4y agoSeems like it does - cool! - but why does it sometimes spin for several seconds when faced with a seemingly simple request? I'm guessing it has some path where it tries to use the network if possible, but if the network is spotty then the requests timeout and it reports a failure?
- yellowait44 4y agoNot on HomePods as far I as know.
- deergomoo 4y ago> because the network is unstable or unavailable All of Apple’s services by and large handle spotty networks horribly. Take Apple Music for example: if you want to play music you’ve downloaded to your device, it’s often better to switch into airplane mode, because with a present-but-poor signal it will still try to load album listings etc over the network, and sit there on a spinner.
- s3p 4y agoThis is so annoying! Every single time I try to play downloaded music on a bad connection it stalls instead of just playing the audio I literally have stored on my device. 100% agree with you that turning on Airplane mode makes it easier to play AM on iOS.
- claytonjy 4y agoSpotify is just as bad in this regard! It used to handle spotty connections flawlessly a few years ago, but at some point it was altered to keep trying to pull album art and track listings from the network even for downloaded albums.
- Quikinterp 4y agoIs there not an option on Spotify to only stream on wifi?
- nicky0 4y agoI have an issue with the Spotify app on the Apple Watch. I’m not sure if it’s an apple or a Spotify problem, but I have loads of trouble when I’m using the watch app to play music when I’m at home, near my phone and near my Wi-Fi network. However if I leave the house and walk away without my phone, leaving the watch to use this 4G connection only, it works flawlessly. If I come back from my run Spotify will often stop playing as soon as it gets home in range of the phone.
- jackson1442 4y agoNot that this excuses it, but I've been able to get this to work by going into the "Downloaded" tab in the Music app. That seems to play directly off the device.
- mustacheemperor 4y agoI hunch that on-device recognition leveraging the onboard ML hardware will be a whole new thing. The Siri brand is so damaged now I expect they’ll launch something new instead of “but it’s actually good now!”
- IceWreck 4y agoWhats the excuse for this ? Whisper is open source, resource efficient and can easily work on device. I wonder why they havent switched to that.