{"id":99750,"date":"2019-09-06T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/09\/06\/leaked-apple-document-says-new-siri-device-is-coming-by-fall-2021"},"modified":"2019-09-06T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:13:12","slug":"leaked-apple-document-says-new-siri-device-is-coming-by-fall-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/06\/leaked-apple-document-says-new-siri-device-is-coming-by-fall-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Apple document says new Siri device is coming by fall 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Malcolm Owen<\/a>
Friday, September 06, 2019, 06:13 am PT (09:13 am ET)<\/span> <\/p>\n

Leaked documents relating to Siri reveal upgrades to the digital assistant are coming in late 2021, aimed at supporting a new piece of hardware.
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A list of Siri<\/a> upgrades expected to arrive before “fall 2021” includes expected elements for “new hardware support” for a “new device,” though a report published on Friday is light on those details. Codenamed “Yukon,” the upgrades to Siri will introduce support for Find my Friends to the voice-based service, the documents claim. Siri will also include support for accessing the App Store, though the capabilities relating to that are not advised by a report. <\/p>\n

Built-in machine translation could enable language interpreting capabilities within Siri, without needing a cellular or other network connection at all, a feature that could be handy for travelers. <\/p>\n

A large section of the internal documents, provided<\/a> to The Guardian<\/em> by a former Siri “grader,” mentions how Siri<\/a> could work with other devices in a variety of ways. At its simplest, features to enable Siri to read out message notifications to users wearing AirPods is suggested, while the ability to use Shazam<\/a> via Siri on Apple Watch is also touted. <\/p>\n

A bigger feature could be commanding Siri on one device to perform actions on another. One example given is to “Play Taylor Swift on my HomePod<\/a>,” which could be said on an Apple Watch or iPhone remotely and interpreted to control the user’s smart speaker at home. <\/p>\n

Arguably the biggest element is the ability to “have a back-and-forth conversation about health problems” with Siri. While this could take the form of Siri providing a basic diagnosis of the user to see if medical treatment is worth attaining, it is also possible that the conversations could form part of HealthKit<\/a> or ResearchKit, Apple’s initiatives in the medical field. <\/p>\n

Despite the lack of information relating to what kind of new Siri-equipped devices are on the way, one of the most likely candidates is the HomePod, which is enjoying success<\/a> in reaching markets like China where rival systems from Google and Amazon aren’t available. It is plausible that Apple could produce a “mini” version of the HomePod, offering consumers a cheaper and smaller version in a similar vein to the Google Home Mini and the Amazon Echo Dot. <\/p>\n

Apple has been rumored to be working on a new generation of the audio device for some time<\/a>, with a cheaper variant also predicted by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo<\/a> in April 2018, though such a model has yet to be launched. <\/p>\n

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