Although using raise-to-speak is the obvious solution here (and arguably faster than nose-navigating).
AssistiveTouch is also a very reliable alternativr, so much so that we see that Apple have brought out the main tapping gesture to the forefront.
Plus you can get pretty fast at doing the fist and finger tap gestures to move around the OS.
There was one brief mention about it being difficult to use in a loud kitchen. From the way they framed it, I think they might be coming from some sort of commercial kitchen background?
> A kitchen also tends to be a noisy place, with multiple conversations and background music. If Siri doesn’t understand what you’ve said, you’re going to end up with burnt onions.
Doesn't apply to my own home cooking situation, but if you're a professional of some sort...
Tell me you don't have annoying little kids, without telling me.
I can personally attest that in any room, Siri's accuracy, and even willingness to activate reliably at all, is utterly abysmal, especially on the Watch. Raise to speak? Just tried it 4 times. It activated and answered once. The other three, it just ignored me.
I'm grateful that I never have to use anything Siri-based for cooking, since I use the Google Nest Hub thing (the one with a screen), which though also imperfect in its speech parsing, at least most of the time is capable to execute "Set a 5 minute onion timer" accurately. Though he makes a good point that if you wander around a big house you might miss your timer alert. Thankfully my house isn't big enough for that.
My child experience always featured them respecting boundaries I set around places they could yell, but I'll admit that's probably very situational.
I was complaining about it elsewhere on this page, but WatchOS 10 seems to have done something awful to raise-to-speak's accuracy -- hopefully it's a bug that they'll promptly fix.
Most of my timer usage for cooking is actually with a HomePod mini that I have in my kitchen, which I've found to be very reliable for it. That said, in part it's because until this most recent round of OS updates it was the only Apple device that let you run multiple simultaneous timers, so I haven't had any chance to rebuild habits away from it yet. :D
Perhaps you didn't mean to be snide, but if your children are capable of just learning appropriate behavior, please recognize what a blessing this is. Different neurotypes exist, and are not so simple to teach or control.
