Are you using Siri or straight dictation? If straight dictation, why on earth is this happening only to me — at least, I haven’t seen posts from anyone else having this issue. On Oct 24, 2013, at 5:11 AM, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I am going to say. In the sentence. > > > Now, let me take a look and see what happened. > > Well, you sort for yourselves. Whenever I said the word period , the > dictation actually put the punctuation in instead of putting the word period > in. > > > Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in! > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! > > 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. -- 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.
