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I use Siri a lot when driving. It's completely hit or miss if it will provide me with an answer or tell me to open my phone to view web results. Some of it's r

I use Siri a lot when driving. It's completely hit or miss if it will provide me with an answer or tell me to open my phone to view web results. Some of it's rather baffling. Like being able to convert certain common units but not others.

simondotau 3y ago
The problem I have is that the quality of dictation seems to drop precipitously when using something other than the microphone built into an iPhone. In my car, Siri and dictation feel like a bad tech demo; as soon as I disable Bluetooth, accuracy shoots back up again. (And I know for a fact that the hands-free in my car makes super clear phone calls.)
hellotomyrars 3y ago
I use it mostly while driving to request specific songs. It is insane that in multiple cases, it has shown the song I asked for on the lock screen, changing from the previous track so I know it understood what I asked it for, and then plays something entirely random that I have never heard before and is not in my library. I don't know how that even happens, but it has happened multiple times. Siri is truly awful and they certainly don't need an LLM to make Siri functional but anything that drives it forward is welcome relief. Specific example of Siri seemingly recognizing exactly what I said, but playing something totally different. (In this case it is another song from my library, but I'm not usually in a position to take a screenshot or record the screen when I'm driving.) https://i.imgur.com/t9dnoTx.png https://i.imgur.com/t9dnoTx.png
- astrange 3y ago
  Are you connected to the car radio? I wonder if it's fighting the phone when it tries to change tracks.
  - hellotomyrars 3y ago
    Nah, just hooked up via aux. It isn't specific to me being in the car, that is just where I mostly need to use hands-free.
ulfw 3y ago
You often convert units while driving? What would be an example of unit conversion you need to get done while en route?
- DANmode 3y ago
  Liters to gallons, just from the tiptop of my head?
- SkyPuncher 3y ago
  It was a representative example of a task type that randomly succeeds or fails without much reason. Here’s an actual example I did last week: “how much does a gallon of gas weigh?” Response: open your phone to search the web. I just tried it again tonight and it gave the answer directly.

simondotau 3y ago

The problem I have is that the quality of dictation seems to drop precipitously when using something other than the microphone built into an iPhone. In my car, Siri and dictation feel like a bad tech demo; as soon as I disable Bluetooth, accuracy shoots back up again. (And I know for a fact that the hands-free in my car makes super clear phone calls.)

hellotomyrars 3y ago

I use it mostly while driving to request specific songs. It is insane that in multiple cases, it has shown the song I asked for on the lock screen, changing from the previous track so I know it understood what I asked it for, and then plays something entirely random that I have never heard before and is not in my library. I don't know how that even happens, but it has happened multiple times. Siri is truly awful and they certainly don't need an LLM to make Siri functional but anything that drives it forward is welcome relief. Specific example of Siri seemingly recognizing exactly what I said, but playing something totally different. (In this case it is another song from my library, but I'm not usually in a position to take a screenshot or record the screen when I'm driving.) https://i.imgur.com/t9dnoTx.png https://i.imgur.com/t9dnoTx.png

astrange 3y ago
Are you connected to the car radio? I wonder if it's fighting the phone when it tries to change tracks.
- hellotomyrars 3y ago
  Nah, just hooked up via aux. It isn't specific to me being in the car, that is just where I mostly need to use hands-free.

ulfw 3y ago

You often convert units while driving? What would be an example of unit conversion you need to get done while en route?

DANmode 3y ago
Liters to gallons, just from the tiptop of my head?
SkyPuncher 3y ago
It was a representative example of a task type that randomly succeeds or fails without much reason. Here’s an actual example I did last week: “how much does a gallon of gas weigh?” Response: open your phone to search the web. I just tried it again tonight and it gave the answer directly.