Re: How do I improve dictation with Siri
I don't know if this is correct, but having shaken the phone and accepted the delete last typingyou just hit the delete key on the virtual keyboard and your last typing will disappear. All the best, Sandy Sent from my iPhone On 18 May 2015, at 16:48, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Tom, Have you actually tried this recently? At least for me this has not worked in quite a long time. Voiceover will announce the prompt to Undo what you dictated and I can double tap on Yes,but if I then actually check the text is still there just the same. At least this is the case in the Messages app. I haven't asked a sighted person to see if this only happens when Voiceover is on, but my guess is that would be so. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Thom Spittle Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 7:20 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: How do I improve dictation with Siri You can shake your phone and it will prompt you to undo your dictation. Thom -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of princessterr...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 11:29 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: How do I improve dictation with Siri Hello everyone. I was wondering, is there a way to improve dictation with Siri, using an iPhone for S? I love my phone, and I love to use dictation. Especially when I am texting. I am rather slow at typing, so the dictation works better for me. Although, I do want to improve my typing skills. However, a lot of times when I can like to dictate something, the phone messes up terribly! Sometimes it misses a word up so badly, that people have to ask me what I meant. The problem is that I don't know how to fix a message, or email, once it is messed up. Is there possibly a way to make make dictating easier? Is there a way to get the phone to understand words more clearly? If so, how do I go about doing this? Today, it called my friend Beth, Eric. I don't know how it came up with that word. I was stumbling either. Sometimes it will call her things like, Bath, both, booze, and other similar things like that. This I can sort of understand at least they sound similar. Any help, or Dutch and suggestions with this, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much! Terry Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group
RE: How do I improve dictation with Siri
You can shake your phone and it will prompt you to undo your dictation. Thom -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of princessterr...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 11:29 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: How do I improve dictation with Siri Hello everyone. I was wondering, is there a way to improve dictation with Siri, using an iPhone for S? I love my phone, and I love to use dictation. Especially when I am texting. I am rather slow at typing, so the dictation works better for me. Although, I do want to improve my typing skills. However, a lot of times when I can like to dictate something, the phone messes up terribly! Sometimes it misses a word up so badly, that people have to ask me what I meant. The problem is that I don't know how to fix a message, or email, once it is messed up. Is there possibly a way to make make dictating easier? Is there a way to get the phone to understand words more clearly? If so, how do I go about doing this? Today, it called my friend Beth, Eric. I don't know how it came up with that word. I was stumbling either. Sometimes it will call her things like, Bath, both, booze, and other similar things like that. This I can sort of understand at least they sound similar. Any help, or Dutch and suggestions with this, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much! Terry Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: How do I improve dictation with Siri
Also, if you find that siri cut you off, when she asks if you want to send it, say add, and she will add to your dictation. Thom http://training.thinkaccess.org/ From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 11:43 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How do I improve dictation with Siri Hi Sherry, you can avoid Siri timing out by keeping the Home button held down, then releasing it as soon as you're finished. The added benefit of this is that Siri acts on your instruction or dictation the moment you're finished, so it's all just a bit snappier. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 13/05/2015, at 2:43 am, Sherry Wells sherrywells1...@gmail.com wrote: I find that you dare not pause too long when dictating directly to Siri or she will think you are done with the message. It helps to have no other noise around such as a tv or talking book. I also hold the phone close try to speak very clearly, sometimes pronouncing letters I would ordinarily not pronounce. An example of this is Beth. I would make a point to enunciate the th at the end of Beth . HTH, Sherry -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: How do I improve dictation with Siri
Hi Tom, Have you actually tried this recently? At least for me this has not worked in quite a long time. Voiceover will announce the prompt to Undo what you dictated and I can double tap on Yes,but if I then actually check the text is still there just the same. At least this is the case in the Messages app. I haven't asked a sighted person to see if this only happens when Voiceover is on, but my guess is that would be so. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Thom Spittle Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 7:20 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: How do I improve dictation with Siri You can shake your phone and it will prompt you to undo your dictation. Thom -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of princessterr...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 11:29 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: How do I improve dictation with Siri Hello everyone. I was wondering, is there a way to improve dictation with Siri, using an iPhone for S? I love my phone, and I love to use dictation. Especially when I am texting. I am rather slow at typing, so the dictation works better for me. Although, I do want to improve my typing skills. However, a lot of times when I can like to dictate something, the phone messes up terribly! Sometimes it misses a word up so badly, that people have to ask me what I meant. The problem is that I don't know how to fix a message, or email, once it is messed up. Is there possibly a way to make make dictating easier? Is there a way to get the phone to understand words more clearly? If so, how do I go about doing this? Today, it called my friend Beth, Eric. I don't know how it came up with that word. I was stumbling either. Sometimes it will call her things like, Bath, both, booze, and other similar things like that. This I can sort of understand at least they sound similar. Any help, or Dutch and suggestions with this, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much! Terry Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: How do I improve dictation with Siri
Hi Sieghard, What is different is that the text is still there, but it is all selected. So, a tap of the delete button will get rid of it all. Let me know if it works that way for you. Thom http://training.thinkaccess.org -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 11:48 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: How do I improve dictation with Siri Hi Tom, Have you actually tried this recently? At least for me this has not worked in quite a long time. Voiceover will announce the prompt to Undo what you dictated and I can double tap on Yes,but if I then actually check the text is still there just the same. At least this is the case in the Messages app. I haven't asked a sighted person to see if this only happens when Voiceover is on, but my guess is that would be so. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Thom Spittle Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 7:20 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: How do I improve dictation with Siri You can shake your phone and it will prompt you to undo your dictation. Thom -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of princessterr...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 11:29 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: How do I improve dictation with Siri Hello everyone. I was wondering, is there a way to improve dictation with Siri, using an iPhone for S? I love my phone, and I love to use dictation. Especially when I am texting. I am rather slow at typing, so the dictation works better for me. Although, I do want to improve my typing skills. However, a lot of times when I can like to dictate something, the phone messes up terribly! Sometimes it misses a word up so badly, that people have to ask me what I meant. The problem is that I don't know how to fix a message, or email, once it is messed up. Is there possibly a way to make make dictating easier? Is there a way to get the phone to understand words more clearly? If so, how do I go about doing this? Today, it called my friend Beth, Eric. I don't know how it came up with that word. I was stumbling either. Sometimes it will call her things like, Bath, both, booze, and other similar things like that. This I can sort of understand at least they sound similar. Any help, or Dutch and suggestions with this, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much! Terry Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post
Re: How do I improve dictation with Siri
By all means, enunciate as clearly as possible. One night, I was dictating a text to the chair of our church board, and I began by saying Thank you very much. I thought I had enunciated clearly, but I received a smiley face back from the guy I sent the message to saying, I didn't think you used that language! Sometimes dictation can be humorous! On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 10:42:48 AM UTC-5, Jonathan Mosen wrote: Hi Sherry, you can avoid Siri timing out by keeping the Home button held down, then releasing it as soon as you're finished. The added benefit of this is that Siri acts on your instruction or dictation the moment you're finished, so it's all just a bit snappier. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 13/05/2015, at 2:43 am, Sherry Wells sherryw...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I find that you dare not pause too long when dictating directly to Siri or she will think you are done with the message. It helps to have no other noise around such as a tv or talking book. I also hold the phone close try to speak very clearly, sometimes pronouncing letters I would ordinarily not pronounce. An example of this is Beth. I would make a point to enunciate the th at the end of Beth . HTH, Sherry -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+u...@googlegroups.com javascript:. To post to this group, send email to vip...@googlegroups.com javascript: . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How do I improve dictation with Siri
There are a few keywords you can add for punctuation, but you have to say them right on the end of the last word, or it gets written as another word. Things like Comma, Dot, Question, Exclaim. I say is that YouComma GoodDot. That looks silly in real writing, but sending a text reading like it is too. I say the word and the comma in one breath, then pause as you do, and continue. This work most the time. But practice practice, and check before you send of course. BobH. - Original Message - From: princessterr...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 4:28 AM Subject: How do I improve dictation with Siri Hello everyone. I was wondering, is there a way to improve dictation with Siri, using an iPhone for S? I love my phone, and I love to use dictation. Especially when I am texting. I am rather slow at typing, so the dictation works better for me. Although, I do want to improve my typing skills. However, a lot of times when I can like to dictate something, the phone messes up terribly! Sometimes it misses a word up so badly, that people have to ask me what I meant. The problem is that I don't know how to fix a message, or email, once it is messed up. Is there possibly a way to make make dictating easier? Is there a way to get the phone to understand words more clearly? If so, how do I go about doing this? Today, it called my friend Beth, Eric. I don't know how it came up with that word. I was stumbling either. Sometimes it will call her things like, Bath, both, booze, and other similar things like that. This I can sort of understand at least they sound similar. Any help, or Dutch and suggestions with this, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much! Terry Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How do I improve dictation with Siri
Also, it should be noted that in an edit text field you don't necessarily have to find and press the dictate button to start dictation. While in an edit field, double tap anywhere with two fingers to start dictation and again to stop it when you're done. Shawn Sent from my White MacBook On May 12, 2015, at 12:18 AM, Terry-Ann Saurmann tsaurm...@access4less.net wrote: Hi Terry, In addition to using the dictation feature that Siri has to offer, the IOS devices also have a Dictate function, that can be used when in the text editing field of a message or an email, just to the left of the space character, near the bottom left of the screen, there is a Dictate button. Using a single-finger double tap will open the microphone, at which time you begin your dictation. When finished, you close the mic with a two-finger double tap. I believe this feature allows for thirty seconds of speech at a time, at which point the microphone closes. However, you can do the single-finger double tap to start dictating again. You can also include punctuation as part of what you are speaking, just as you would if you were typing. This is much preferred for the reader of your text or email, so that the words do not all run together. If you want to begin a new line of text, just say, new line. Whether you are using this dictate feature or that of Siri, once you have completed your dictation, you want to place your finger in the middle of the screen to highlight the message itself, at which point you will want to do a single-finger double tap to move the cursor to the top of the screen. Set your rotor to words to read word by word, or to characters to read one character at a time. To read ahead one character or word at a time, flick one finger repeatedly downward. To go back one character or word at a time, flick one finger up toward the top of the screen. When making corrections, you want to put the cursor to the right (or below) the character you want to erase and then press the delete key which is located toward the bottom, right-hand side of the screen, just below the letter L. When inserting text, I place it below the last correct character, and if necessary, I put a space ahead of the character(s) if I am replacing an entire word. You can select strings of characters for cutting, copying, or deleting text all at once, but that is for another time. Again with either the dictate function, or if using Siri, when dictating your text, you want to do so in a normal speaking voice, speaking clearly, without over enunciating or separating your words, so that they do not become distorted. However, I find that the names of people are the words that are the most frequently misunderstood. Finally, in case you are not already aware of this, the text editing field in an email is located several flicks to the right of the Send button, whereas the textthe edit field of a text message, is found one flick to the left of the send button . I hope this helps. Terry - Original Message - From: princessterr...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 10:28 PM Subject: How do I improve dictation with Siri Hello everyone. I was wondering, is there a way to improve dictation with Siri, using an iPhone for S? I love my phone, and I love to use dictation. Especially when I am texting. I am rather slow at typing, so the dictation works better for me. Although, I do want to improve my typing skills. However, a lot of times when I can like to dictate something, the phone messes up terribly! Sometimes it misses a word up so badly, that people have to ask me what I meant. The problem is that I don't know how to fix a message, or email, once it is messed up. Is there possibly a way to make make dictating easier? Is there a way to get the phone to understand words more clearly? If so, how do I go about doing this? Today, it called my friend Beth, Eric. I don't know how it came up with that word. I was stumbling either. Sometimes it will call her things like, Bath, both, booze, and other similar things like that. This I can sort of understand at least they sound similar. Any help, or Dutch and suggestions with this, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much! Terry Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and
Re: How do I improve dictation with Siri
I've noticed with dictation that using the proper voice enflection works wonders. For example, at the end of a sentense, with your voice, pause before starting the next one. When asking a question, make sure your voice sounds like your asking a question and of course, at the end of a sentense say the word period or at the end of a question say the word question mark. The software keeps getting better but you have to do your part as well. I've also noticed that many people mumble. Perhaps they do it because they want greater privacy or they don't want people to think their nuts? grin Dictation does require a bit of practice. HTH! Regards, Alan Teenagers; Tired of being harassed by your parents? Act now! Move out. Get a job. Pay your bills wile you still know everything. Please click on: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ There, you'll find free files of my arrangements and performances played on the Yamaha Tyros 1 keyboard. I often add files so check back regularly! The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still available upon request. Thanks for listening! -Original Message- From: RobH. Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 1:42 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How do I improve dictation with Siri There are a few keywords you can add for punctuation, but you have to say them right on the end of the last word, or it gets written as another word. Things like Comma, Dot, Question, Exclaim. I say is that YouComma GoodDot. That looks silly in real writing, but sending a text reading like it is too. I say the word and the comma in one breath, then pause as you do, and continue. This work most the time. But practice practice, and check before you send of course. BobH. - Original Message - From: princessterr...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 4:28 AM Subject: How do I improve dictation with Siri Hello everyone. I was wondering, is there a way to improve dictation with Siri, using an iPhone for S? I love my phone, and I love to use dictation. Especially when I am texting. I am rather slow at typing, so the dictation works better for me. Although, I do want to improve my typing skills. However, a lot of times when I can like to dictate something, the phone messes up terribly! Sometimes it misses a word up so badly, that people have to ask me what I meant. The problem is that I don't know how to fix a message, or email, once it is messed up. Is there possibly a way to make make dictating easier? Is there a way to get the phone to understand words more clearly? If so, how do I go about doing this? Today, it called my friend Beth, Eric. I don't know how it came up with that word. I was stumbling either. Sometimes it will call her things like, Bath, both, booze, and other similar things like that. This I can sort of understand at least they sound similar. Any help, or Dutch and suggestions with this, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much! Terry Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post
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I find that you dare not pause too long when dictating directly to Siri or she will think you are done with the message. It helps to have no other noise around such as a tv or talking book. I also hold the phone close try to speak very clearly, sometimes pronouncing letters I would ordinarily not pronounce. An example of this is Beth. I would make a point to enunciate the th at the end of Beth . HTH, Sherry -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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Hi Sherry, you can avoid Siri timing out by keeping the Home button held down, then releasing it as soon as you're finished. The added benefit of this is that Siri acts on your instruction or dictation the moment you're finished, so it's all just a bit snappier. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 13/05/2015, at 2:43 am, Sherry Wells sherrywells1...@gmail.com wrote: I find that you dare not pause too long when dictating directly to Siri or she will think you are done with the message. It helps to have no other noise around such as a tv or talking book. I also hold the phone close try to speak very clearly, sometimes pronouncing letters I would ordinarily not pronounce. An example of this is Beth. I would make a point to enunciate the th at the end of Beth . HTH, Sherry -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How do I improve dictation with Siri
Hi Terry, In addition to using the dictation feature that Siri has to offer, the IOS devices also have a Dictate function, that can be used when in the text editing field of a message or an email, just to the left of the space character, near the bottom left of the screen, there is a Dictate button. Using a single-finger double tap will open the microphone, at which time you begin your dictation. When finished, you close the mic with a two-finger double tap. I believe this feature allows for thirty seconds of speech at a time, at which point the microphone closes. However, you can do the single-finger double tap to start dictating again. You can also include punctuation as part of what you are speaking, just as you would if you were typing. This is much preferred for the reader of your text or email, so that the words do not all run together. If you want to begin a new line of text, just say, new line. Whether you are using this dictate feature or that of Siri, once you have completed your dictation, you want to place your finger in the middle of the screen to highlight the message itself, at which point you will want to do a single-finger double tap to move the cursor to the top of the screen. Set your rotor to words to read word by word, or to characters to read one character at a time. To read ahead one character or word at a time, flick one finger repeatedly downward. To go back one character or word at a time, flick one finger up toward the top of the screen. When making corrections, you want to put the cursor to the right (or below) the character you want to erase and then press the delete key which is located toward the bottom, right-hand side of the screen, just below the letter L. When inserting text, I place it below the last correct character, and if necessary, I put a space ahead of the character(s) if I am replacing an entire word. You can select strings of characters for cutting, copying, or deleting text all at once, but that is for another time. Again with either the dictate function, or if using Siri, when dictating your text, you want to do so in a normal speaking voice, speaking clearly, without over enunciating or separating your words, so that they do not become distorted. However, I find that the names of people are the words that are the most frequently misunderstood. Finally, in case you are not already aware of this, the text editing field in an email is located several flicks to the right of the Send button, whereas the textthe edit field of a text message, is found one flick to the left of the send button . I hope this helps. Terry - Original Message - From: princessterr...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 10:28 PM Subject: How do I improve dictation with Siri Hello everyone. I was wondering, is there a way to improve dictation with Siri, using an iPhone for S? I love my phone, and I love to use dictation. Especially when I am texting. I am rather slow at typing, so the dictation works better for me. Although, I do want to improve my typing skills. However, a lot of times when I can like to dictate something, the phone messes up terribly! Sometimes it misses a word up so badly, that people have to ask me what I meant. The problem is that I don't know how to fix a message, or email, once it is messed up. Is there possibly a way to make make dictating easier? Is there a way to get the phone to understand words more clearly? If so, how do I go about doing this? Today, it called my friend Beth, Eric. I don't know how it came up with that word. I was stumbling either. Sometimes it will call her things like, Bath, both, booze, and other similar things like that. This I can sort of understand at least they sound similar. Any help, or Dutch and suggestions with this, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much! Terry Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns
