Apple: Siri can detect your gestures to activate soon

With iOS 17, users no longer need to say “Hey Siri” to activate Apple’s smart assistant. Indeed, a simple “Siri” is enough now. It’s certainly a minor change, but it marks the end of an era after 12 years of “Hey Siri” being pronounced by billions.

But obviously Apple still has other projects in mind for its assistant. Indeed, he would be working on the Cupertino company. A motion detection function for the voice assistant. In any case, this is revealed by a patent application filed by the Apple brand. In summary, the document reveals: Siri may soon be able to lip read for the user trigger without voice command.

Siri can detect your lip movements to trigger

According to the Apple Insider site, this patent called “Keyword Detection Using Motion Detection” therefore details a function for detecting head movements as well as lips that can be used to activate the assistant. To do this, Siri unsurprisingly a motion sensor to monitor and record user’s movements during conversation.

If the voice assistant decides that the user’s lip movements correspond to a certain command, it should execute it immediately. In the statement, Apple explains that the voice commands are successful sometimes to unwarranted triggers and erroneous responses., either from background noise or the voice of another person nearby. The idea with this feature is to avoid these failures.

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Please note that this new activation method does not mean that Apple will permanently remove voice commands. On the other hand, we can imagine that users will have the option to disable the microphone In favor of motion detection to trigger Siri. The manufacturer rightly states that disabling the microphone allows you to gain autonomy and save processing capacity.

It is not yet clear which Apple devices will be equipped with this feature. iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or Apple Vision Pro are all designated. But again, it’s a patent and nothing says Apple will carry out its plan.

Source : Apple Insider