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You should be able to say "Hey Siri, listen carefully" brief pause "isle ... of ... dogs", or some such to have the device enter a special mode where it attempts to identify individual words more accurately.

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What's wrong with just saying "isle … of … dogs"? Why would you need to enter a special mode before enunciating?

Pausing long enough to be sure the AI knows you're done pronouncing the previous words is often enough to trigger the end of the phrase. We want our AI assistant to be performant, after all!

Without a special mode, you'd likely say "Hey, Siri, play Isle..." "Okay, I found--" "Dammit, Siri, I wasn't done!"

You don't have to wait 5 seconds between words. You just have to enunciate clearly enough that the divisions between words become truly unambiguous.

It’s worth noting that, elsewhere in this thread, user smortaz wrote:

Yep, tried that too... but admittedly the sound very similar. I keep getting "I'll of dogs" and "I love dogs".

If they're getting "I'll of dogs" then they're getting the word divisions right, but the problem there is "I'll" and "isle" sound identical so no amount of enunciating will distinguish them. The only thing to suggest at this point is to spell out the word.

I've never heard about this special mode.

I meant to imply it should have this mode, not that it does.

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