Anyone notice siri no longer recognizes common foreign idoms anymore? Either in TTS or Ask Siri… The only concrete example I have is recognizing “Croque Monsieur” since my love for hot ham sandwiches has spanned the ages… but I feel like there’s something more nefarious at work here.
It feels like used to be able to ask for a info about random foreign words and it would at least trigger a web search for something phonetically similar, which would often get me the translation I was after. But lately* the TTS engine is militantly transforming everything into English. Obviously this is more subtle and open to other interpretations, but for example I just asked her what “hikikomori” were which got interpreted as “Hickam Morty,” with top hits for the show Rick and Morty.
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Siri isn’t as young as she once was. Maybe try speaking a little louder than usual.
I did ponder the possibility of my mics just getting worn out, but clarity is still excellent in audio recording and generally for TTS or questions in straight English. I suspect Apple tweaked the model to exclude some of the phrases I had grown accustomed to using because they were being falsely recognized.
Always has been
First pass reading the title I thought it read “Still getting dumber lately?” And I’m just like “Yup!”
Time comes for us all my friend.
Man, it seems like she is getting more useless by the day. It’s really sad how much the development of Siri has been left to flounder since its introduction.
Seems like the same old pre-iOS 18.1 Siri to me. Famously bad.
Siri on iOS v18.1 knows what
isNoice :-) I’m going to have to work on my pronunciation then 😳
maybe you’re mumbling more?
Possibly. Though I patiently tested the sandwich scenario.
I have Siri remind me to make more ice often, but if I say it too fast it’s “make more rice.”
I enjoy going back through my to-do list and trying to remember what I asked for. Generally it’s full of things I keep putting off, so it’s all past due and the occasional miss is easy to spot ;-)
it would never even occur to me to ask Siri about such things. I’m surprised it ever worked for you.
Blame that bit in Mr. Robot where the FBI agent asked Alexa when the universe was going to end. I’m always curious what a system is capable of…
