Tag: siri
Speech Impairment
Daniel Jalkut’s HomePod Experience.
What I didn’t expect was how incredibly sensitive Siri on the HomePod would be, and how obnoxiously persistent it would be about responding to my requests, no matter how far I am from the device, nor how unsuited it is for the task at hand.
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Any attempt to “Hey Siri” another device is met by a loud interruption by Siri either of the music or of the silence of the room. It’s bad enough that it assumes all requests are being made to it, but it’s even worse that it insists on chiming in even when it isn’t capable of serving the request.
I have two iOS devices near me most of the time, my iPhone 7 and my iPad Pro. It's frustrating trying to use "Hey Siri" when both devices are present. Both devices are listening and both will activate. However, Apple has some sort of algorithm that senses this and only one device will actually complete…
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WordPress Theme Designer Specialist, Daniel Brinneman provides an interesting hack to get Siri to use Google Maps instead of Apple Maps. Photo by Dan Chung on Unsplash [exif id="32577"]
Click To Read Full PostSaturday Links Week 37
What have we done? “A lot of the designers and coders who were in their 20s when we were creating these things didn’t have kids. Now they have kids,” he says. “And they see what’s going on, and they say, ‘Wait a second.’ And they start to rethink their design decisions.” Nest founder and Apple…
Click To Read Full PostSaturday Links Week 36
Every Saturday, I share a list of inspiring or interesting articles that I read during the week. Here’s what I read this week.
Click To Read Full PostReading List - Medium Format, Voice Interfaces, Human Rights, ichigyo-zammai
[exif id="25284"] On the gear acquisition syndrome and the Fuji GF-X: Sure, the format itself, the sensor, the glass...all of it contributes to the end results and I do believe there's a quantifiable difference. But it's how it alters us that's most important. That creative influx and change of pace. In many ways it's the…
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