Hello Tracy, Lynne, and Others, Well, this seems to be very bad timing, but it appears that "Talking to Siri" is, indeed, currently not available in the UK iBooks Store. In fact, it's a very good thing that Mike Busboom bought his copy from the German iBooks Store last month, because it's no longer available there, either.
In the US iBooks Store, checking the title brings up a completely new version of the book with publication date of March 26, 2012, and a price of $11.99 instead of $4.99. Apparently, Pearson (an educational publisher) acquired the book rights and published a printed version in the US with a March 16, 2012 release date. Pearson now owns the ebooks rights to this book, and came out with their own version of their printed work (with the same content as before). So once Pearson released an eBook version, it replaced the authors' original eBook version, and became subject to international distribution rights negotiations. Here's the current version US iBooks Store link for "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-learning-language/id510942082?mt=11 It does not currently work for the UK or Germany -- and probably other countries. I did check that this book is available through Kobo Books: bit.ly/H1DFGQ (I've had to shorten the link.) At present, the Kobo Books price for this book is $8.69. You'd have to either read this in the Kobo Books app on your iOS device, or download the ePub version from your Kobo Books account on their web site, and then read that version in Adobe Digital Editions Preview 1.8 on your Mac desktop, however. Kobo Books is available internationally, and the app is usable on iOS devices with VoiceOver, although you'll prefer the iBooks reading experience. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 24, 2012, at 4:52 AM, Tracy Thompson wrote: > Hello Esther > > I tried the link below and the book seems to have gone. Thank you anyway. > > Take care > > Tracy > > > On 23 Mar 2012, at 21:22, Esther wrote: > > 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. > <--- 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/>
