Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Gary Davis:
I thank the Chairman, and I think the question the Deputy is asking is the correct one. Our aim is to ensure that Siri is only activated when it hears the words "Hey Siri", or if a person has activated it on his or her watch, when it is raised in a certain way, or if a person wishes, he or she can press a sequence of buttons. A person can also disable "Hey Siri" if he or she wishes on his or her device. That is a choice that we make available, but in the way of all things, as I mentioned earlier, we are trying to ensure that we pick the words "Hey Siri" up in all dialects and languages. It could be that when they are pronounced by a person in a certain way, they may actually not be the words "Hey Siri", and it may be something quite close. That is what we are working on as part of our grading programme to fix.
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