One of the capabilities of Siri, Apple‘s voice assistant, is that it can differentiate between different voices depending on the person speaking to it. However, the way to do this varies depending on the device. Therefore, in this post we will tell you how you can make Siri recognize your voice on both the iPhone and the HomePod.
Steps for Siri to recognize you on iPhone
Siri is Apple’s voice assistant, which is why it is present in all the company’s devices, allowing all users to interact with it to ask it to carry out any action for which Siri is trained. Also, on the iPhone it has the peculiarity that by default, Siri will only activate when you hear the voice of the person who owns the device.
Therefore, to make Siri on your iPhone only respond to you when you invoke the famous “Hey Siri” command, you really don’t have to do anything at all . You might be wondering when you set this up, and the reality is that every time you set up an iPhone from scratch, when you set up hey Siri you have to initially interact with the assistant, and that’s when Siri recognizes your voice. However, this configuration process can be repeated if you detect that it is not working correctly. To do this, you just have to follow the following steps.
- Open the Settings App on the iPhone.
- Select Siri and Search .
- Turn off the ” Wake on hearing “Hey Siri” ” option.
- Activate the option ” Activate when hearing “Hey Siri” “.
- Follow the steps on the screen to configure it.
Turn on speech recognition on HomePod
If there is a device where Siri is the total protagonist , it is the HomePod, be it the normal one or the HomePod mini. And it is that Apple’s voice assistant is really the heart of this product, meaning that users do not need to use any other external device to play music, which is the great function offered by both Apple speakers.
Of course, Apple in its HomePod makes it possible for users to increase their privacy by having the voice assistant inside them recognize the different voices that can interact within the home or office where they are located. Up to 6 different users can be registered, and when a different one interacts with the device, it will do so from the main user, but without the possibility of accessing personal requests. The steps to make this possible and for the HomePod to recognize the voice of the different users who use it are as follows.
- On your iPhone, go to Settings > Siri & Search .
- Turn on “Activate when you hear “Hey Siri””.
- Go to Settings > [your name] > Search > turn on “Share My Location” .
- Set “My Location” to “This Device.”
- Open the Home app.
- Tap the house icon , located on the left at the top.
- Select ” Home Settings “.
- Tap your user profile under People.
- Activate ” Recognize my voice “.
- Follow the steps indicated for its configuration.
With these simple steps you will get Siri to recognize your voice every time you enter into a conversation with her. The fact that the assistant recognizes you as one of the users also increases your privacy considerably, so it is an action that we recommend taking if there will be many people who can use the HomePod.
