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Why do phone voice assistants still fail on everyday time expressions that any LLM handles?

Small but telling example from my own phone (iPhone, iOS 26.6.1, Siri in English UK). I asked for an alarm at 19:40 three ways. Speech recognition got every word right; the time parsing didn't: "7 p.m. and 40 minutes" → it set 19:00 (dropped the minutes) "20 minutes before 8 p.m." → it set 20:00 (d…

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  1. 2026-09-28 14:11 · r/artificial
    Why do phone voice assistants still fail on everyday time expressions that any LLM handles?

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