I am using voice dictation to reply to this message and using the word period at the end of my sentences with no problem. I did have to edit manually to insert that word in the middle of the sentence, however.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:13 PM, Nicholas Parsons > <[email protected]> wrote: > > HI Christine and all, > I'm Australian and until recently used Siri in Australian English with > VoiceOver's default language also being Australian English. Ever since Siri > could understand punctuation, I think sometime back in iOS 5, I used the word > "full stop" and Siri understood this fine. After upgrading to iOS 7 I > switched Siri's language to US English as I wanted the awesome new voices. To > my surprise, Siri still knew what I meant when I said full stop. I thought I > might need to start saying "period" or using other American words or phrases > but Siri seems to react perfectly fine to my Australian English. > Although this is great for me, it does seem difficult for Americans if Siri > can't understand what period means in context. I'm wondering, does it depend > on your phone's language setting rather than Siri' language setting? Also, > even when it was working, how would it react when you used the word "period" > in other contexts? For instance, "The great depression was a difficult period > for many people," or "What class do you have next period?" > Cheers, > Nic > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
