“Hey Siri”
The other big feature that the new AirPods introduce is support for voice-activated Siri. While you could still use the original AirPods to talk to Siri, this required you to physically tap the AirPods to call up the voice assistant. The new “H1” chip in the new AirPods, combined with Apple’s efforts to make its voice recognition more accurate, should now allow users to reliably activate Siri by voice in order to change songs, make calls, or do pretty much anything else without missing a beat while working out.