There does seem to be some confusion here. I used my Mac to do the little demonstration I did yesterday morning. You seem to be using your Iphone. I suspect that, for clarification, we might want to get that point across because some might think some of us are using Macs some our Iphones. Not, mind you, that it should make any difference, but, it might.
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 25, 2013, at 4:10 AM, Christine Grassman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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