Link: https://gizmodo.com/its-not-just-you-trumps-state-of-the-union-triggered-siri-on-iphone-users-phones-2000726280

If you were watching the State of the Union address, and you’re an iPhone user, then toward the end of the speech, during President Trump’s recounting of the story of Chief Warrant Officer Eric Slover, you might have had Siri triggered—assuming you have voice activation turned on.

This feature once required the user to say “Hey Siri” but now only requires “Siri.”

At least one other Bluesky user confirmed that she experienced the same thing. A user on X said the erroneous Siri trigger word was “serious” not “searing,” but the timing of the post suggests it was the same moment.

Another Bluesky user (whose posts are off-limits to those who are not logged into Bluesky), posted a Google results page Siri pulled up following the Siri-triggering line, featuring a bunch a results about bullets going through legs.

I wonder what it's like owning an IPhone and working with someone called Siri?

I thought it is supposed to only response to your voice only

my kids cant trigger siri on my phone - much to their annoyance

Glad I didn’t watch that nonsense lol

Siri inexplicably sucks so bad.

YouTube videos trigger "Hey Google" all the time.

You'd think YouTube could play an inaudible frequency across all YouTube videos that tells the device to ignore that input or something.

How low do you value your time and person to watch that crap-stain talk? It must be a masochist thing I guess. Then again it's an apple user so they probably have a hard time evaluating things.

I suspect most speakers are not designed to play inaudible frequencies.

They are. Your ears are not designed to hear them. There is nothing special about high frequency noises. You just can't hear them.

It’s brutal, I’ve felt no improvement to Siri since it launched back in 2011. I tried asking for the weather and it couldn’t read out the forecast.

They are, though. A popular example of this is the "mosquito tone" that young people can hear but older people can. And on the reverse, sub audible frequencies are often used for things like horror movies to add a sense of tension.

Most things that operate within a certain range are capable of operating outside of that range. You don't typically want the top and bottom of your used range to be the true max/min of the system. Internal combustion engines are a good example.

It was such a strange and disturbing "show". He kept making up success stories, throwing shade towards the Dems and then the camera panned to some miserable looking Democrat (usually foreign looking).