Microsoft is taking its ongoing offensive against iPhone’s voice assistant, Siri, into a somewhat higher realm of satire in a new video spot called “Let the Healing Begin” that’s set to launch on YouTube next week.

The video spot is obviously timed to coincide with Apple’s big Tuesday event where one or, possibly, two bigger iPhones are expected to be launched.

The “Let the Healing Begin” spot features a small group therapy session with people seated in a circle talking about problems using Siri.

In a teaser featuring a snippet of the video that Microsoft emailed to Computerworld, a group therapy participant named Clay says, “I guess I was expecting too much. I’m a spontaneous guy and it seems like when I’m ready to go out, she [Siri] just can’t keep up.”

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