<story><title>Personalized Hey Siri</title><url>https://machinelearning.apple.com/2018/04/16/personalized-hey-siri.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattigames</author><text>Yeah, they don&amp;#x27;t want to give users too much control; Siri is an important brand by itself and Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t want people going around skipping it.</text></item><item><author>gervase</author><text>To clarify, this is about training your phone to recognize only &amp;quot;Hey Siri&amp;quot; as spoken by you, as opposed to letting you personalize your trigger phrase to something other than &amp;quot;Hey Siri&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sib</author><text>Yes. In this case, the selection of a wake word (&amp;quot;Alexa&amp;quot;) or phrase (&amp;quot;Hey Siri&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;OK Google&amp;quot;) is driven primarily by performance (i.e., reduction of false accepts &amp;amp; false rejects). The folks designing these products know that, even though customers say that they&amp;#x27;d like to customize the wake word or phrase, if the actual performance is significantly worse, those customers will not be happy.&lt;p&gt;We experimented with this extensively.</text></comment>
<story><title>Personalized Hey Siri</title><url>https://machinelearning.apple.com/2018/04/16/personalized-hey-siri.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattigames</author><text>Yeah, they don&amp;#x27;t want to give users too much control; Siri is an important brand by itself and Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t want people going around skipping it.</text></item><item><author>gervase</author><text>To clarify, this is about training your phone to recognize only &amp;quot;Hey Siri&amp;quot; as spoken by you, as opposed to letting you personalize your trigger phrase to something other than &amp;quot;Hey Siri&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woolvalley</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s too bad, because I sure wish I could make the homepod use a different phrase.&lt;p&gt;The homepod knows to activate when I say hey siri, but my friends phone activates instead of the homepod whenever they say &amp;#x27;hey siri&amp;#x27; about %50 of the time.</text></comment>