• By Vikas Yadav
  • Sat, 03 Jun 2023 11:32 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND

APPLE users might have to start omitting the 'Hey' in the 'Hey Siri' wake word to activate the voice assistant. We say this because reputed Apple tipster Mark Gurman claims the tech giant plans to modify the trigger phrase soon. It would be an attempt to simplify the launch command for the voice assistant.

Though the user might think this omission won't require much heavy lifting, Gurman highlights it will require 'significant' work for implementation. The change will involve substantial AI training and backend work.

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"I'd look out for that possibility next week," he wrote. Further, the Chief Correspondent from Bloomberg claims the company has been working on the update for months, and if the stars are aligned, we can expect a full-fledged rollout of this tiny mutation in 2024 or the subsequent year. The tech giant has been testing the trigger phrase with its associates and gathering data from the tests for training purposes.

Later in the report, Gurman highlights the complexity of dialects and accents that could affect the new wake word's operational efficiency. With two words, this challenge is reduced. On the other hand, the benefits of the change include faster "back-to-back" input requests for Siri.

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With the change, the company will join Amazon, which has the trigger word 'Alexa' without 'Hey.' Other than this, the Cupertino-based tech giant aims to integrate Siri deep inside "third-party apps and services" and improve its skills.

Of late, the easiest way to stir Siri into action is the 'Hey Siri' command that works across a range of Apple products. However, Apple plans to optimise the process and kill the word 'Hey' in the command. So that a user can just call out the name, followed by inputs they wish to assign to the voice assistant. This two-word phrase was introduced by Apple in 2014.

On a related note, the company is gearing up for WWDC 2023, where the world could witness a plethora of new announcements, including the super-hyped Reality Pro headset.