Apple’s Siri assistant can now bark like a dog, quack like a duck, and even roar like a lion. To try it out, all you have to update to iOS 14.3 and say, “Hey Siri, bark like a dog for me” or similar*. In response, Siri will play the natural sound of a dog barking.
On Monday, Siri started to play short audio clips in response to questions about what something sounds like. Sounds now built into the system include animals, instruments, and vehicles, and Apple says there are hundreds of options. On an iPhone or iPad, Siri also brings up a picture of the animal and a link to more information from Wikipedia.
Here’s some examples of what you can ask, via Apple:
• “Hey Siri, what does a humpback whale sound like?”
• “Hey Siri, what does a toy poodle sound like?
• “Hey Siri, what does a harp sound like?”
• “Hey Siri, what do firetrucks sound like?”CNBC also tried it out with a few other animals, including a domestic cat, a lion, a bald eagle, and, in an example of how specific it can get, a kookaburra, a type of bird which sounds like somebody laughing. Siri also played several car sounds, a train whistle, and a short sample of a theremin as well.
MacDailyNews Take:
*“Hey Siri, what does a dog sound like?” will work to return a recording of a dog barking. “Hey Siri, bark like a dog for me” will get you a joking reply “Sounds ruff” or “I can’t do that. But I can remind you to walk your dog. Or buy dog food.”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Carl Spackler” for the heads up.]
Nope. Didn’t work. And yes I have the update.
Try “Hey Siri, what does a dog sound like?” That will work.
MDN is having a little fun in their headline.
Any excitement over such a release is worse than reporting with any pride the emoji library has been made larger.
Why would you need to update to make this happen? I mean, technically? Are these sounds IN the OS of ever increasing bloat?
“Are these sounds IN the OS of ever increasing bloat?” ABSOLUTELY, getting more “Fisher-Price toy interface” with every “upgrade” and its also taking over Big Sur on Mac!
OMG, Siri can do something that Google Assistant has had for a very long time. Apple’s Siri is lame.
I would have thought Apple had this implemented in Siri ages ago since they presented Siri as the more ‘fun loving’ voice assistant.
APPLE JUST KEEPS ON WINNING! ARF ARF!
Soon she’ll be able to provide me an answer instead of directing me to the web?
I’m looking for the place that instructs me where I’m to deploy the new barking sound…my dog does it pretty well and my wife makes better sounds.
Siri doesn’t know what a dogcow sounds like. I’m greatly disappointed.
I second that. “Moof” should have been in there since day one!
Doesn’t work for me
I asked it what Joe Biden sounds like.
Siri replied played Biden recalling President Obama as the “first mainstream African American who was articulate, bright and clean”.
Then again, that’s what won him the White House.
I asked Siri what a dinosaur sounds like. She played me off-topic political comments made on MDN.
My Siri keep saying “BigX, BigX”
I still chuckle over Siri’s beatboxing skills…
Hey Siri, make the sound of what the Libturds did the the country…. Swooooosh (toilet)
It would be better if she just made the sounds herself and brought up the sounds as well. I think it would be more fun to say Siri bark like a dog and she did it. Then say Siri what does a dog sound like and she brings up the real dog bark.