Here is a nice setting tweak to speed up Siri and make her more responsive. I found disabling the Voice Feedback (so Siri doesn’t talk out loud), makes her snappier.

Downside: You will have to read the screen.

Settings > General > Siri > Voice Feedback
Change to: Handsfree Only

1. General	2. Siri
3. Voice Feedback	4. Change to Handsfree Only

From my understanding, this probably bypass the need for Apple’s servers creating the verbal dictation audio, and having to transfer it over Cellular Data / Wifi to your device. Aka, time.

Reliability boost? Maybe.

As a bonus Siri overall seems more reliable as , I get a lot fewer “I’m unable to process your request right now” responses it seems. But you will have to find out for yourself there. But with out a doubt Siri is a bit faster.

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There is a lot of information that Siri is ready to share without any password.

Consider the kind of information you can get from the lock screen with the following commands:

• “Call History” / “Recent calls” / “Missed calls”
• “Show me my calendar” / “Where was I yesterday”
• “Text messages from Sarah Smith”
• “What is my home address / phone number”
• “Show me my notes”
• “Show me my stocks”
• “Update my facebook / twitter”
• “Send an email (text) to Sarah”
• “Read/Show me my todo items”
• “Dial 301-555-1234”
• “Delete all my alarms”
• “Set an alarm for 3am”

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This allows the iPhone a moment to recognize the ambient sound where you are. If you start talking right away, your voice becomes part of the the ambient noise. The poor thing will be confused!

Want Siri to be faster? I wrote about that.

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