Siri is already on more than 500 million devices

Along with the announcement that the Apple HomePod will be available next February 9 in the United States, Australia and Great Britain, the Cupertino company has taken the opportunity to provide new information regarding how many people are using their personal assistant. According to Apple, Siri is actively used on more than 500 million devices.

Siri continues to grow

These figures reveal an improvement over the latest information on Siri usage that had been shared by Apple. At the World Developers Conference in June, Apple said Siri was used by more than 375 million iOS devices every month, suggesting that the use of this exclusive wizard from the bitten apple ecosystem has increased since the debut of iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra.

iOS 11 brought several improvements to the use of Siri, including new more realistic voices, both male and female, with the aim of being closer and more natural to human speech.

In addition, Siri also learns from the use we make of our device. This is how he knows our preferences better and is able to synchronize all that information between all our equipment and devices so that we can enjoy a much more complete and integrated experience.

In iOS 11, Siri can also translate from English to Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Siri usage is likely to continue to grow at an even faster rate with the introduction of the HomePod connected speaker, the usage of which is highly dependent on the personal assistant. In fact, Apple says it has been working to improve Siri's understanding of music-related data.

On the HomePod, Siri will be able to make musical recommendations based on the user's personal musical tastes, thus helping to discover new music according to their tastes. In addition, Siri will also be able to respond to a whole range of music-related commands and queries such as "Play more songs like this, " "Play something new, " "Who's singing?" and "Play more like this."