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Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri (9to5mac.com)
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Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri::Cortana is Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which was introduced in 2014 back when Windows Phone was still a thing. Similar to...

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[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"Hey siri, set a timer for 50 minutes" (time my dryer takes). "Timer set for 15 minutes". Every god damn time. I say 49 minutes now.

[–] ren@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I turned off "hey siri", just hold down the power button now, but absolutely, you. GOT. To. Uh-Nunce-Ee-Ate. Ev-Ver-Ree-Thing. Vare-LEE. Clear-LEE.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ee-Nunce-Ee-Ate*

[–] RivenRise@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Just out of curiosity, does siri not have a setting where you can have it get used to your voice? I remember cortana had a whole set up process that had you say a bunch of things. I don't enunciate well but it was able to always pick up my regular voice for stuff.

[–] dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can just say ‘five zero’ and it’ll be interpreted as 50, I just tried it.

[–] noodle@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, Google Assistant has no issues with anything like this. You can even set multiple timers. Which, for some inexplicable reason, is not possible in iOS.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

It's not a big deal if you setup a spreadsheet showing when you need each timer to go off and then simply tell Siri to set a timer for the interval between each as they complete one by one. Easy peasy.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

But stupidly time is a not synced between your various devices.