Apple might soon change the trigger phrase for its voice assistant from ‘Hey Siri’ to a one-word command.
According to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company plans to drop the greeting side of things by changing the trigger phrase to simply ‘Siri’.
It might feel a bit rude to start commanding beloved Siri without greeting it first…especially here in Africa.
Why is Apple suddenly dropping its manners? Well, you can call it good old peer pressure. By the way, Siri turns 12 years old next year, so it’s old enough to deal with it.
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According to a report by The Verge, Apple’s Siri requires a two-word phrase to wake up and start doing what you need it to do while its peer, Amazon’s Alexa, requires a one-word command ‘Alexa’ to activate. A one-word command for Siri would also mean it would be smarter and ahead of Google Assistant, which requires greetings and affirmations like ‘Ok Google’ and ‘Hey Google’.
Microsoft had also dropped the need to greet on its voice assistant Cortana last year from ‘Hey Cortana’ to ‘Cortana’…then Cortana eventually stopped talking. We’re not saying it’s because the greetings stopped, but imagine receiving commands all day with no greeting, we’d go mute too.
Gurman reckons the feature will roll out in 2023 or 20224.