> From what I can tell, Siri is still a dumpster fire that nobody is willing to use. I have no personal experience with Alexa, so I can't speak to it
I use both (albeit more Alexa than Siri, both just for a really limited functionality set), and FWIW, I believe Alexa is worse than Siri. It can do two things at the same time though (just as your example: "turn on X and turn off Y", "turn on X for Y seconds", and things like that).
I also feel that it has gotten worse over the years. I read about the possibility of microphones getting dust and therefore capturing worse audio, so I got a dust blower (for other reasons, too), but it didn't solve anything.
After listening in the app what Alexa picks up (from an Echo and Echo Dot, both 4th. Gen), I have to say that they use really shitty microphones. Furthermore, I have been testing Whisper extensively last month, with audio coming from low-quality sources, and I think a similar model would interpret a lot better my voice than whatever Amazon is using.
I use both (albeit more Alexa than Siri, both just for a really limited functionality set), and FWIW, I believe Alexa is worse than Siri. It can do two things at the same time though (just as your example: "turn on X and turn off Y", "turn on X for Y seconds", and things like that).
I also feel that it has gotten worse over the years. I read about the possibility of microphones getting dust and therefore capturing worse audio, so I got a dust blower (for other reasons, too), but it didn't solve anything.
After listening in the app what Alexa picks up (from an Echo and Echo Dot, both 4th. Gen), I have to say that they use really shitty microphones. Furthermore, I have been testing Whisper extensively last month, with audio coming from low-quality sources, and I think a similar model would interpret a lot better my voice than whatever Amazon is using.