Hello Lynne, First, very good to hear news of both your and Gordon, and have you back on list! Siri should not have any problems with Gordon's accent, although, just as with the Dragon Dictation app, what you'll find is that recognition of his voice will improve the more he uses Siri, and his voice is "learned". As Ian mentioned, there is a useful book in the iBooks store ($4.99 US price): • "Talking to Siri: Learning the Language of Apple's Intelligent Assistant" by Steve Sande and Erica Sadun http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/talking-to-siri/id479419244?mt=11
You might also like to read down the archived Mail Archive thread of Mike Bussboom's question: • Siri and Orthography http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access%40mac-access.net/msg07721.html Read down the thread with the access key combination Control-n, and read previous messages with Control-p in Safari. Lynne or anyone who is using Safari on a machine where this application was brought up when VoiceOver was not running -- the access key combinations become Control-Option-n and Control-Option-p with VoiceOver off, just as a warning. The only real problem with Siri's voice recognition is for people with Scottish accents. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 23, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello everybody > > I know from the messages I've had from certain concerned group members that > our silence has been noticed. Thank you for that; it's really appreciated. > > Anyway, to the point. I am currently playing catch-up on over 1200 messages > and may see something in a currently extinct thread to which I want to reply. > I beg your pardon for any irritation this may cause you. > > I'm well aware that there have been lots of changes while we've been away; > and some of them involve exciting software titles. I'm looking forward to > spending some time this weekend getting to know some new members of this > group as well. > > Tracy, in her continued generous manner, has upgraded Gordon's phone without > telling him; he now has an iPhone 4S and when she gave it to him earlier > tonight it put a smile on his face. So we're currently playing getting to > know you on that device as well; but Gordon hasn't played with Siri yet, as > he wants to read up more about it first. > > Anyway, we're most interested in the comments of other iPhone 4S users. How > do you find Siri, particularly non-US users? I say that because I'm not sure > how, or even if Siri will recognise the voice and the accent of, for > instance, a British user. > > I have the home page so will go and read more about it shortly. Lots of > exciting things are happening in the Apple world it seems and we're looking > forward to being a part of it all again. > > I won't go into more detail on list; but I'd like to thank you a all for your > continued responsible and mature use of our resource whilst we've been away. > Believe me, your cooperation is very much appreciated. It is a pleasure and > an honour to be able to say that we run this group; a group which contains so > many genuinely enthusiastic and mutually cooperative individuals. > > Those people who have requested books have had a few replies from Tracy, but > she, like me, has been accessing mail remotely and she's still not fully up > on all the details. If you have any outstanding issues rewarding TC titles > that you have either purchased or would like to purchase via Mac Access, > please do not hesitate to contact thee support address while we're home, > (between now and Monday), and I will do my very best to fix your issue. > > Thank you most sincerely to everybody. > > Lynne > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
