Raise to speak working poorly on watchOS 5

Found the answer to my problem in another thread ... the Siri function has been working fine, the list offered while informative and boiler plate didn't help ... it was the 'raise to speak' portion that was hit and miss ....

Apparently the watch face must be in a vertical orientation (think perpendicular to the floor) then the raise to speak function works every time. Rotate your wrist off the vertical plane ... and it doesn't pick up to invoke Siri for rain to speak.

1. Check the Internet connection on your Apple Watch.
2. On your iPhone, see if Siri is turned on. Tap Settings > Siri & Search, then turn on Listen for "Hey Siri". On iPhone X, turn on Press Side Button for Siri. On iPhone 8 or earlier, turn on Press Home for Siri. Your Apple Watch mirrors your iPhone, so you don’t need to check your watch.
3. On your Apple Watch, see if Hey Siri is turned on. Tap Settings > General > Siri.
4. Restart your Apple Watch.
5. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Siri & Search and turn off Listen for "Hey Siri." Then turn it on again.
6. See if the microphone or speaker on your Apple Watch is blocked. For example, if your device has a protective case, remove it.
7. If Siri doesn't speak on Apple Watch Series 3 or later, you might need to download its voice. The download happens when you’re on Wi-Fi and your Apple Watch is charging. To give the download time to complete, try charging your Apple Watch overnight. To check the status of the download on your Apple Watch, tap Settings > General > Siri, then scroll to Siri Voice. Learn which languages Siri speaks.

If Siri still doesn't respond, contact Apple Support.

Risolto diciamo di no, ci sono due problemi, per il primo c'e' un workaround, per il secondo...no.

1) Siri non si attiva alzando il polso > alzare velocemente il polso e portare il Watch alla bocca con lo schermo perpendicolare al pavimento e "in corsa" iniziare a parlare a voce moderatamente alta e con la bocca quasi a toccare il lato sx dell'orologio (sigh!!!). Nel 90% dei casi "ti sente".

2) se 1) è andato in porto...Siri reagisce e iniziare a trascrivere ciò che gli hai dettato...ma....dopo un paio di secondi anziché reagire...manda un paio di vibrazioni e torna alla watchface iniziale. Ecco..per questa cosa l'unica soluzione è quella di attivare Siri col metodo classico ovvero tenendo premuta la corona.

A mio avviso sono bugs e a nulla sembrano servire i feedback degli utenti.

Ciao

Here's what worked for me: I went to to bluetooth and selected Forget Device for my bluetooth earbuds. Suddenly raise to speak worked normally for the first time ever.

Go to getsupport.apple.com and schedule a call with Apple on this. If unpairing and setting up as new doesn't fix it, that's what you need to do.

Same here ... I can't get it to work at all unless I invoke 'Hey Siri' or by long pressing the crown to call up Siri ... then raise to speak will work for a short period ... try again a bit later and raise to speak is a no go again.

Running Watch OS5 on Series 3 GPS+Cellular and iPhone 8 Plus running iOS 12.0.

I belive it won't help. There's nothing we (users) can do or guided to do by Apple support.

There's a need of a software fix to raise the mike sensitivity.

I could improve the situation by:

- ensuring that the watch is vertical/almost vertical to the ground

- speak loudy and very very close the mike, almost "kiss it" ! It's on the left side of the watch.

After learning about the vertical trick, raise to speak now invokes pretty consistently, so no problem with that. However, in more than 50% of the cases I experience exactly what you mention - after listening and converting to text correctly, my Series 3 watch just returns to the watch face instead of actually executing the command. Very annoying.

I also have problems with the feature "Raise to Speak" on my Apple Watch S4 and watchOS 5.1.1. I can see Siri write down my request and, immediately after, fade away on the watch face without any feedback. Resetting both Apple Watch S4 and the iPhone as new (no backup) does not help. It seems that the problem occurs mostly with the Italian or other languages other than English. At the same time on the watch I have no problem with Siri when called by "Hey Siri" or by pressing the digital crown. It is not possible to have this important feature completely non-functional on a such hi-end device. We have paid entirely and Apple must fix it as soon as possible.

This fix does not work. The only fix is to unpair and repair the watch but that fix is just temporary. We need a permanent fix. Hey Siri works fine but the raise to speak feature does not.

Exactly the same setup and problem here !! 1 out of 3 or 4 times it works anyhow when lucky she starts writing what I say then vibrates and returns suddenly to the initial watch face, so annoying ! I hope today's update could resolve it (5.0.1), no way. Also I'm italian so it shouldn't have anything to do with the device language.

I'm trying now with your suggestion, to turn the watch-face vertical to the floor..well very very little improvement while I look so stupid by rotation by wrist in a so innatural way ! I won't like to break my wrist :-) and I won't do it in public !

I notified this issue to Apple via Feedback (as long as someone will give it a look).

Let's others please share if you experience the same issue.

Ciao

Gianni

Hi Sterling, we should be "experienced" users so the attached instructions won't work for the issue we have got.

Perhaps you can report to the proper team for a fix.

I believe this may have to do with microphone "sensibility" perhaps to avoid unintentional activations, problem is this makes it unusable, so perhaps Apple can fix or add a sensitivity level or so, so the user can adjust according to the environment s/he normally in.

Thanks anyway

Gianni

Hi

I’d just like to acknowledge your issue that sometimes you can give a command to Siri, see it appear but next it acknowledges by tapping and jumps back to the watch face and nothing further happens. It also happens on the watch of my son. We have also reported it to apple.

I’m just wondering how many more people have this issue?