I was using my Mac, and therefore, straight dictation.
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 24, 2013, at 8:52 AM, Christine Grassman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
