[xp84]

> Doesn't apply to my own home cooking situation

Tell me you don't have annoying little kids, without telling me.

I can personally attest that in any room, Siri's accuracy, and even willingness to activate reliably at all, is utterly abysmal, especially on the Watch. Raise to speak? Just tried it 4 times. It activated and answered once. The other three, it just ignored me.

I'm grateful that I never have to use anything Siri-based for cooking, since I use the Google Nest Hub thing (the one with a screen), which though also imperfect in its speech parsing, at least most of the time is capable to execute "Set a 5 minute onion timer" accurately. Though he makes a good point that if you wander around a big house you might miss your timer alert. Thankfully my house isn't big enough for that.

[kemayo]

My child experience always featured them respecting boundaries I set around places they could yell, but I'll admit that's probably very situational.

I was complaining about it elsewhere on this page, but WatchOS 10 seems to have done something awful to raise-to-speak's accuracy -- hopefully it's a bug that they'll promptly fix.

Most of my timer usage for cooking is actually with a HomePod mini that I have in my kitchen, which I've found to be very reliable for it. That said, in part it's because until this most recent round of OS updates it was the only Apple device that let you run multiple simultaneous timers, so I haven't had any chance to rebuild habits away from it yet. :D

[xp84]

Perhaps you didn't mean to be snide, but if your children are capable of just learning appropriate behavior, please recognize what a blessing this is. Different neurotypes exist, and are not so simple to teach or control.

[kemayo]

That's why I said it's very situational.