It’s official.
Apple has notified media outlets of an invitation-only event to be held at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on Wednesday, Septmeber 9th at 10am PDT.
The invitation melds Siri graphics with the iconic Apple logo and the text “Hey Siri, give us a hint.”
News that Apple’s event would be held at the cavernous Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (max. 7,000 person capacity) instead of the usual, much smaller Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (max. 750 person capacity) in San Francisco had leaked prior to Apple’s invitation mailing.
MacDailyNews Take: Here we go!
BTW, literal bastages that we are, we fired up Siri and said, “Hey Siri, give us a hint,” but all she returned were businesses and locations with “hint” in their names.
When we changed that to “give me a hint,” as suggested by “Thrifty1” below, among otoher things, Siri returned:
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When asking, just say “give me a hint”. Siri makes a couple of cute responses.
It would be hilarious if Siri actually responded with meaningful hints.
As per the norm, Siri is confused–even as an insider.
Try “Siri, what one more thing?”
Event is on the 9th and NFL season begins the very next day. Add to that, the invitation image kinda resembles a football moving towards apple. Could I be right? Apple tv + NFL ?
I got…
“Can you get a hint? No. You may, however, get a what what”.
she said I will have to wait till sept 9th
Some much needed improvements to Siri would be nice.
The venue for this event is massive. I addition to the obvious new hardware announcements, expect a central focus on Homekit + Siri automation.
From the hilly looking poster the hint is obvious: Apple is announcing a major upgrade to Flappy Bird!
I would love to see some Siri activities moved to the local device. Why should Siri need to communicate with an outside server when I want to call a phone number stored in my local address book. Or function with the local map app. Etc.
When my Watch is out of contact with my iPhone 6+, Siri still translates a request perfectly. So, yes, local functions like calling a contact should be possible.
I’d like to see that as well.
The reason that Siri requires access to Apple’s servers is that the accuracy of voice recognition is greatly increased with the amount of data available in the language model that your recorded voice is compared against.
The models Siri uses are large enough that keeping them on your phone is not a good use of resources. Also, on the servers, large numbers of recognition threads can share instances of the language model.
So, Siri *could* run entirely on your phone, but at a serious cost in memory and battery usage.
-jcr
RGB?
Siri?
Voice-controlled streaming TV product.
Siri, Give me another hint.
“Look deep within yourself and you will find the answer. Especially on September 9.”
Logo looks like Siri is rolling down the highway with colorful hills on each side….hmmmm.
“Siri, please give me a hint.”
“You’re cure when you’re desperate.”
Cracks me up……
Typo:
“You’re cute when you’re desperate.”
(Wish one could edit one’s own posts here)
Try changing to other languages.
I change it to italian and ask her, and she responded: “bisogna aspettare fino al 9 settembre”
You have to wait until september 9″
Maybe they’ll be adding Siri to El Capitan—IF MS can roll out Cortana on Win 10, Apple should have no problem bringing Siri to the desktop.
=:~)
This is fun,
Siri says “Well, I hear there’s something big happen on the 9th of September”
Also “You’re cute when you’re desperate for information.
Quite a few more. Excellent.
Is it literally asking Siri to give me a hint about what to watch on TV tonight based on whatever criteria you fancy or that she learns from previous experience. So a hint about how you actually would use her in AppleTV rather than simply the fact of her integration into a new/updated product
It’s the flying car. I’m sure this time!
Siri’s answer to the ultimate hint: 42
Siri comes to Apple TV!
“Hey Siri, give us a hint” sounds like the format for a command for the Apple TV, although it also works on your iOS devices if they are plugged in and you messed with the settings enough to enable it.