As you know, to activate voice assistants, you need to say a command that will wake it up. On the other hand, problems may arise when voice assistants such as Siri start responding to the commands they hear in TV commercials. It looks like Apple will fix this problem in the near future.
9to5MacAccording to the news of , Siri may not respond to the “Hey Siri” command triggered by TV commercials, according to the “AdBlocker” framework seen in the newly released tvOS 18.2 Beta update. As the name suggests, the “AdBlocker” framework may seem like just an online ad blocker but, upon deeper inspection, it turns out that the new framework will temporarily disable Siri trigger commands.
In particular, part of the “AdBlocker” framework appears to use the Shazam API to match audio captured via the device’s microphones. The code suggests that the framework will download audio fingerprints from Apple servers and re-run them using the Shazam API to match the fingerprints to the audio captured by the Apple device’s microphone using the Hey Siri API.
The new framework was only found in the latest tvOS 18.2 beta, suggesting that the HomePod smart speaker could potentially be the first device to ignore “Hey Siri” commands in TV commercials.
The stable tvOS 18.2 update is expected to arrive on supported devices in December.
Source: www.technopat.net
