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by Terretta
2829 days ago
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More anecdata — my wife and Alexa got along only about half the time at launch, and a few years later it’s down to 1/4 or less. Meanwhile, HomePod Siri understands her 9/10. Every room has both, both are able to manage all devices, and Alexa was here first. Because of comprehension challenge, Alexa has been abandoned, now the only time Alexa wakes up is for TV mentions. Note, not talking about syntax, talking about whether the words she said are what the device says she said. Also agree about wrong devices in wrong rooms answering. Used to work, now doesn’t. |
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My wife has the almost identical problem with Siri. She has a very slight northern plains accent, but it's enough to confound Siri about 25% of the time.
It's worse with Microsoft's horrible "Blue & Me" system. That thing understands her only 5% of the time. She gave up on using it.
Siri understands what I say almost all the time, but only rarely knows what to do with the questions or commands I speak.
Except for one app: Reminders. For some reason, Siri has a hard time when I add things to Reminders lists. I have a Groceries list with about 30 items on it that are bad Siri misinterpretations of things that I want to buy, and I have no idea what they're supposed to be.
Things currently on my Groceries list that, thanks to Siri, that I have no idea what they are but keep them anyway just in case I figure them out later: Canned pills, Maybe to la, Bicycle, Not what I said, North, Raisin berry, Frog nodes, Special, Compound dirt.