HomePod owners may not necessarily have to even call out the word “Siri” in future, with Apple researching ways to use gaze detection for a device to know it’s wanted.
The patent’s drawings show a HomePod with cameras, which might now become the expected Apple HomeHub
The patent’s drawings show a HomePod with cameras, which might now become the expected Apple HomeHub
If you have multiple Apple devices, then you know that it’s difficult to get Siri to respond on the one you want. When you are in a room that contains an iPhone, an iPad, and a HomePod mini, Apple has all sorts of systems to assess which device you want, but they routinely fail.
Furthermore, not everyone feels comfortable with the “Siri” prompt, even if it is better than the original “Hey Siri” one. You can still say either version, and so can your TV set — it’s common for something said on a show to be close enough to “Siri” that it prompts a query you didn’t ask for.