I use Siri mainly to find my way around. If I say "Speak walking directions to High Street" it gives me a pretty good commentary on how to get to High Street, but I use Maps at the same time to give me more detail. Maps tells me how close I am to the next turn, and uses street names, while Siri tends to deal in road numbers, which isn't always helpful. Combined, though, the two things are pretty effective.
And if I want to know where I am at the moment, I will say to Siri, "Speak where I am", which sounds pretty strange, but it works. If I just say where am I? Siri puts up a map and says "There you are", which is no use to me whatever. If you have Maps on, swipe through the screen until you find current location, and it will give you the street or road name. Nothing's perfect, and if I tell Siri I want to get to Hotel Street, it starts reeling off the names of hotels. And if I dare to know better than Siri how to tackle part of the route, it tells me in no uncertain terms to get back on the route. Never mind if there's an 8-lane road that stops me going straight to the next bit of Siri's itinerary¬! Vince. ======================================== Message Received: May 06 2015, 01:04 AM From: "Marianne Denning" To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: Subject: Re: favorite ways to use Siri? I use it to launch apps, add, subtract and other math functions, get word definitions, find companies and addresses... I find it very helpful. On 5/5/15, R Van Lant wrote: > I will likely be upgrading to a phone with Siri soon from my little iphone > 4. I do not have any friends around here who use Siri. So, I'd like to > know what you find Siri useful for/ What are some of the serious questions > you ask Siri to do for you? I want to get the most from here. > > > > -- > 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. > -- Marianne Denning, TVI, MA Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired (513) 607-6053(513) 607-6053 -- 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. CallSend SMSAdd to SkypeYou'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype -- 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.
