I can ask Siri: "What's the time"?
Can I put this in a shortcut, and run it every hour between 8am to 7pm, so that my iPhone will announce time every hour?
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I can't reproduce your problem:
Maybe Siri thinks you're trying to voice dial.
Actually, maybe you don't have Siri on, as voice dialing appears to be enabled by default when you turn Siri Off.
Put all your Phish in a playlist, and give it a name like 'tunesofish'. Then simply say "shuffle playlist tunesofish". Siri will open the playlist and play it shuffled.
Here, I've asked Siri to play my Comedy playlist:
This works with a smart playlist set to auto-add everything from artist "Phish":
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Best Answer
You can't have direct Siri commands but you can get the current time and you can also speech to text things, here is a reddit link that seems close to what you want to achieve