I am truly confused! And here I thought I was helping somebody else avoid some major confusion and headache!
Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Oct 2013, at 10:23 am, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
