You say that you have to have yourself as a contact I assume from this that the phone doesn't already know you are the account holder? Also is there a word limit on email dictation? for reasons of limited use of the hands my written emails are necessarily "terse"
Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 18:12 To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: how smart Siri? Hi Ray, SIRI is designed to understand natural speech and for certain things it is more forgiving than others. For example, you can tell SIRI any of the following and it will do it perfectly: Set my alarm for 7 AM Set my alarm for 7 in the morning Wake me up at 7 I have to get up at 7 However, if you tell it "Wake me up at 7 on Wednesday", for some reason it will tell you that an alarm can't be set for more than 1 day ahead and then it asks if you want to set a Reminder instead. Reminders are very easy to set and allow for good options. You can say: Remind me to Call John on Wednesday at 3 PM Remind me to take the garbage out at 8 every Tuesday morning - this will set a recurring reminder You can ask it to calculate stuff, regular arithmetic, tips/percentages and so on. You can ask it to convert most stuff You can ask geographical information like "What is the fifth most populated country in the world Anything Wolfram Alpha has information about you can pretty much ask. By "how speaker independent is the program" I assume you mean does it understand different people? If so, then yes, as long as you speak whatever language you have your iPhone and SIRI set to without too much of an accent then it should work quite well. I have a slight German accent but typically SIRI understands me rather well. There are interesting instances where I say something and SIRI repeats it completely differently. One example is that I usually say "Call my work" if I want to call my main business number. SIRI of course knows who I am since as long as you have yourself entered as a contact with work number, home number, mobile number, email and addresses and so on SIRI knows that "you" are you. Anyhow, I can say "Call my work number" 10 times and it gets it right every time, but from time to time it just seems to go off on a rant and it will say back "Call my brother" or "Call Mike Roark" or something stupid like that. If I repeat "Call my work" and really pronounce it, it will just not get it and I just say "Call Sieghard at work" and that is fine. Then again later "Call my work" works just fine. I think it might sometimes depend on how busy the servers are, maybe how good your connection is, how much background noise there is and all that. Normally background noise is dealt with very well, I have dictated short text messages in a restaurant with a lot of background noise and it was no problem. What is a problem is if you tell it something and somebody else is talking very nearby, then SIRI may just continue to listen not knowing the other person speaking is not part of what I am saying. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray T. Mahorney Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 10:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: how smart Siri? Perhaps not the best way to phrase that but the question is this is there a set of phrases the program recognizes or has to be prompted with other than the program name before requests can be carried out? Also how speaker independent is the program? Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -- ou received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. 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