[StephenMelon]

Unfortunately “Hey Siri” starts to grate the 70th time you say it in 3 days. I would actually now rather walk across the room to touch the Homepod than have to say the phrase so much. It’s still in uncanny valley territory a lot of the time as it isn’t smart enough to keep context between interactions or react in a human-like way.

I think a retroactive activation feature would be the way to go, ie. be able to say “Siri” at the end of a sentence and have it parse the phrase that came before. It feels more natural to say “skip this please Siri” than “Hey Siri, skip” because it lets you amend the mistake of not identifying the subject earlier in the sentence rather than the phrase-exasperation-hey Siri-phrase.

I asked Siri to DJ and my daughter said “hey Siri, I don’t like that song”. Siri said “I’ll remember that” and played something else. Now I have no idea how to amend Siri’s notion that I dislike one of my favourite tracks. There should really be a Homepod app where you can see recent interactions and correct misinterpreted ones.

There are also some artists and tracks with unusual spellings that are always going to cause problems for a voice interface and so they need a solution for that.

[randcraw]

It could be worse. "OK Google" is annoying the first time you say it.

[lstamour]

You can say “Hey Google” now, though it’s not quite as smooth as Alexa.

[JeremyBanks]

I recommend "Eh, Google!" 🇨🇦

[TheForumTroll]

Hard call when the functionality is far better with OK Google.

[dkonofalski]

If you remember the song, you can play it again and say "Hey Siri, I love this song" to amend that. If you don't remember the song, you can go into Apple Music and view your votes and change from there.

[crooked-v]

Something about "Hey Siri, ..." is much more grating to me to say than "Alexa, ...". Maybe it's just that conjunction of phonemes being rare in English?

[2bitencryption]

That's nothing compared to "Okay Google".

Try saying that three times fast. Actually, try saying it just once fast.

I always end up spitting out something like "Okaygggeellggglle"

[ExactoKnight]

It's utterly astonishing that Google still has the hubris not to give it a personal name.

People want to believe they're talking to a personal assistant, even if that isn't true, and Google is stupidly stripping them of that.

[millstone]

I think it’s just a branding thing. Notice how e.g. the app is named “Google Chrome” (but not “Mozilla Firefox”).

[ExactoKnight]

But in this case it doesn't work. I don't repeat the name "Chrome" 20 times a day like I will for a Google Home. This is a serious f*cking flaw and it actually makes me worry for Google's stock price that they can't see how obvious of a problem this is and/or are too paralyzed to fix it.

[PerfectElement]

You can say "Hey Google".

[ExactoKnight]

The "Hey" gets extremely grating after the fifth time in a row.

Amazon has it right on this with Alexa.