As a former transcriptionist, my feeling is that the jury is still out on voice recognition dictation. On many lists, I have seen examples of Siri's work. Sometimes, it is all right, but it never corrects things which are repeted such as generating Juaneta for Juanita or just throwing odd words into the mix. This is why there are still a few transcriptionist editing this type of dictation, a chore I didn't want in any way, shape or form.
Hopefully, this technology, be it Siri, or something else will get better, but it must be capable of understanding so many languages and accents that this is going to be a tall order. I just received an email from a friend which she had dictated, and she was having a devil of a time with it. It did, however, catch a few cuss words precisely! Smiles, Dianne -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James Mannion Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 2:38 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Seri and dictation. I am one that has not yet installed fleksy and what I use most from Siri is the dictate feature where I use the dictate button on the software keyboard. My experience lately has not been any real issue with accuracy, but quite a frequent issue with getting it to come back with the results from what was dictated. It will take the dictation in those cases, but never respond with the result. It's hard to say if the accuracy issue is an extension of the issue of no response and they are quite related or not. Yeah, yeah they have been using the beta thing as an excuse to have no standards to measure against for nearly a year now and the reliability is the same or worse than it was months ago. Not much of a quality job on that in my opinion. On 7/22/12, Carol Pearson <carol.pearso...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Well, fortunately, I haven't pinned it down to Fleksy either but am > still unhappy with what I'm getting. > > I suppose I'll have to resort to headset and mic for best possible > results now, whereas I used to manage perfectly happily with the mic > from the phone. > > Carol P > ---- Original Message ---- > From: "Richard Turner" <richard.turne...@gmail.com> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 4:49 PM > Subject: RE: Seri and dictation. > >>I have had almost no luck with Siri for several weeks. >> I've done all the turning it off, rebooting the phone, turning it >>back on, etc. >> Siri, is a beta, and in my experience a very poor beta. >> When it works, it is brilliant, but it doesn't work most of the time >>for me. >> This has nothing to do with Fleksy. I had these problems way before >>Fleksy was even talked about, let alone released. >> >> Richard >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Carol Pearson >> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 5:43 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Seri and dictation. >> >> Yes, I'm wondering too. Can anyone else shout up and say they >> actually do have a problem with Siri dictation and they also have >> installed Fleksy recently? >> >> Think I may take out Fleksy and give a test because I'm certainly not >> happy with Siri right now! >> >> Carol P >> ---- Original Message ---- >> From: "Jenifer Gilley" <claudas...@gmail.com> >> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 9:55 AM >> Subject: Re: Seri and dictation. >> >>> Actually I have noticed this problem only after installing fleksy. >>> Now u have me wondering.... perhaps the two have a conflict? Not >>> sure but something to look into? >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Jul 22, 2012, at 4:52 AM, "Carol Pearson" >>> <carol.pearso...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Join the club. >>>> >>>> I noticed it the first time I used (a couple of days >>>> later) after installing Fleksy and I'd changed my UK >>>> settings.) If this is not the cause for me, I'm looking at dirt >>>> around the microphone and will be checking at an Apple Store this >>>> week. >>>> >>>> Have you done similar things with, say, Fleksy recently? >>>> >>>> I just wish I could get to the bottom of the problem myself as I'm >>>> using Siri less and less as a result. >>>> >>>> Carol P >>>> ---- Original Message ---- >>>> From: "Jenifer Gilley" <claudas...@gmail.com> >>>> To: "The iPhone List" <viphone@googlegroups.com> >>>> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 10:42 PM >>>> Subject: Seri and dictation. >>>> >>>>> Hi all. Has anyone else experienced seri acting up, especially >>>>> with dictation? 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