How to Retrain Siri to Understand You Better

How to Retrain Siri to Understand You Better
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Apple’s personal voice assistant, Siri, is a powerful voice input-based search tool, natural command and dictation platform, and, as we’ve recently learned, a world renowned beat-boxing champion with an impressive skill set that’s yet to be reckoned with.

But like all forms of technology, Siri, too, carries her own weight in the form of a hefty learning curve — perhaps not so much in terms of what she can do — once the pocket-sized robot catches on to your algorithms, of course; but rather, more so in terms of how accurately and expediently she can do it.

Sure, just for the record, when you’re setting up a brand spanking new iPhone or iPad fresh out-of-the-box, Siri will catch on relatively quickly, and will learn from you, pretty much akin to one of the most notoriously best-behaving students in a classroom.

However, over time, unfortunately, Siri tends to become less and less effective — if you haven’t already noticed. She might become slow-to-the-punch, err, late-to-the-game, whatever you want to call it. But hey, there’s always a room to grow for all of us, right? Even our friendly, pocket-dwelling personal assistants!

And, to that end — if and when Siri seems to be getting a bit rusty, you can always re-train her to learn from you, all over again, so that her responses turn out to be perhaps a bit more helpful than they are humorous. And today we have the solution for you, comes to us courtesy of Cult of Mac’s Ste Smith, which we have outlined below.

How to Retrain Siri

1. Tap Settings.

2. Tap General.

3. Tap Siri.

4. Switch off Hey Siri.

5. Switch Hey Siri back on.

6. Tap Set Up Now and follow the prompts to set up and retrain Siri.

In essence, by re-training Siri (with the sound of your personal, unique voice), the voice-activated “Hey Siri” feature will become more sensitive and responsive to whatever you throw her way. Furthermore, re-training Siri will improve the overall experience of how effectively she translates your spoken words into actionable, fully and accurately executed commands.

These tricks, of course, are most ideal for people who’ve been experiencing issues with Siri misinterpreting their words, and thereby coming to conclusions — or executing actions — that are, well, perhaps a bit far and between what we actually expected her to do for us.

I guess you always have to keep in mind: no matter how intelligent we think our technology is; no matter how much it’s purpose and intent is to improve upon and expedite the happenings of our daily lives, there’s always going to be a room to grow. New medians by which we can ultimately fine-tune and improve upon these utilities — such as Siri — will always surface, and thereby ensure we’re always getting the most out of the products that are intended to make our lives easier.

What’s your favorite Siri feature? Let us know in the comments.

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