Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-12-01 Thread Alan Paganelli 
The only thing that drives me nuts with dictation is when people don't use 
puntuation marks.  You can say period at the end of a sentence or question mark 
at the end of a question.  The software is smart enough to know you don't mean 
it as a word and, it works even better if you use voice enflection rather then 
a monotone voice.

HTH



Alan

Sent from my iPad Air

> On Nov 30, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Monica Jones <coffeega...@att.net> wrote:
> 
> I understand for sure. I'll ask Siri to do some things, but I find that too 
> often, I have to clean up after it. I do like dictation most of the time 
> though. It is much better than it once was.
> 
> 
> -Original Message- From: 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 11:25 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
> 
> Mary,
> 
> You are not alone. There are times when Siri gets in a right mess! At these 
> times, I find he asks the most inappropriate questions, and then once the me 
> to do all sorts of things…
> 
> I agree with you that Apple haven't done a very good job of getting this to 
> work well. Dictation works much better for me than using Siri and asking for 
> something to be done.
> 
> Carol P
> Sent from my iPhone using MBraille
> 
> On 30 Nov 2015, at 5:05 p.m., Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This whole business about Siri and asking questions and whether or not it 
> looks into your contacts is so strange. I find that recently, Siri has been 
> making phone calls to my contacts without asking for confirmation. On the 
> other hand, if I ask Siri for a phone number which I know is in my contacts, 
> more often than not, it says I found such and such place is this what you 
> want? And it is been a search of the web that turned that place up. And in 
> some cases, it is the wrong place, not the one in my contacts, but another 
> one in town. It makes no sense. This is another area where Apple had a good 
> thing and has not developed it. Google eats apples lunch,, as you say in this 
> area.
> Mary
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Cristóbal <crismuno...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Even though I’m a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that Google's 
>> OK google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for a while 
>> now. I don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of my 
>> contacts as I find the process to be tedious and prolonged.
>> -Original Message-----
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>> Of Alex Stone
>> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
>> 
>> I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to
>> call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so
>> I have no idea why.
>> 
>>> On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
>>> I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing for 
>>> our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as well. Then 
>>> for a while it called them again just fine using my contact and now again 
>>> it goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often asking 
>>> me again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to call and 
>>> I have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather inconsistent at time or 
>>> maybe Appleis just fooling around with different settings and ways for SIRI 
>>> to do things. I think that SIRI should always first check ones contacts and 
>>> use that. I also had it where I asked SIRI to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi 
>>> company, and it said "I don't have a number for BV Taxi". When I told SIRI 
>>> to "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me the contacts entry with phone number and 
>>> I know for sure that a number is there in the proper dialing format. Don't 
>>> think there is anything much y ou can do about it except maybe give 
>>> feedback to Apple and suggest they should just get their act together and 
>>> make SIRI work a bit better.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Sieghard
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>>> Of Barry Abbott
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM
>>> To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
>>> Subject: SIRI asking too many ques

Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-30 Thread 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone 




Carol P
Sent from my iPhone using MBraille

On 30 Nov 2015, at 5:05 p.m., Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:

This whole business about Siri and asking questions and whether or not it looks 
into your contacts is so strange. I find that recently, Siri has been making 
phone calls to my contacts without asking for confirmation. On the other hand, 
if I ask Siri for a phone number which I know is in my contacts, more often 
than not, it says I found such and such place is this what you want? And it is 
been a search of the web that turned that place up. And in some cases, it is 
the wrong place, not the one in my contacts, but another one in town. It makes 
no sense. This is another area where Apple had a good thing and has not 
developed it. Google eats apples lunch,, as you say in this area.
Mary


Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Cristóbal <crismuno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Even though I’m a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that Google's 
> OK google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for a while now. 
> I don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of my contacts as I 
> find the process to be tedious and prolonged. 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> Alex Stone
> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
> 
> I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to 
> call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so 
> I have no idea why.
> 
>> On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
>> I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing for 
>> our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as well. Then 
>> for a while it called them again just fine using my contact and now again it 
>> goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often asking me 
>> again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to call and I 
>> have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather inconsistent at time or maybe 
>> Appleis just fooling around with different settings and ways for SIRI to do 
>> things. I think that SIRI should always first check ones contacts and use 
>> that. I also had it where I asked SIRI to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi 
>> company, and it said "I don't have a number for BV Taxi". When I told SIRI 
>> to "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me the contacts entry with phone number and I 
>> know for sure that a number is there in the proper dialing format. Don't 
>> think there is anything much y ou can do about it except maybe give feedback 
>> to Apple and suggest they should just get their act together and make SIRI 
>> work a bit better.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Sieghard
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>> Of Barry Abbott
>> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM
>> To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
>> Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
>> 
>> Wondering if anyone has a solution
>> 
>> Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
>> Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you 
>> want?"
>> 
>> I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from 
>> my Apple watch under friends it does what I ask
>> 
>> I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being 
>> useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your contacts 
>> Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under iOS 7.
>> I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Barry
>> 
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Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-30 Thread 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone 
Mary,

You are not alone. There are times when Siri gets in a right mess! At these 
times, I find he asks the most inappropriate questions, and then once the me to 
do all sorts of things…

I agree with you that Apple haven't done a very good job of getting this to 
work well. Dictation works much better for me than using Siri and asking for 
something to be done.

Carol P
Sent from my iPhone using MBraille

On 30 Nov 2015, at 5:05 p.m., Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:

This whole business about Siri and asking questions and whether or not it looks 
into your contacts is so strange. I find that recently, Siri has been making 
phone calls to my contacts without asking for confirmation. On the other hand, 
if I ask Siri for a phone number which I know is in my contacts, more often 
than not, it says I found such and such place is this what you want? And it is 
been a search of the web that turned that place up. And in some cases, it is 
the wrong place, not the one in my contacts, but another one in town. It makes 
no sense. This is another area where Apple had a good thing and has not 
developed it. Google eats apples lunch,, as you say in this area.
Mary


Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Cristóbal <crismuno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Even though I’m a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that Google's 
> OK google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for a while now. 
> I don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of my contacts as I 
> find the process to be tedious and prolonged. 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> Alex Stone
> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
> 
> I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to 
> call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so 
> I have no idea why.
> 
>> On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
>> I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing for 
>> our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as well. Then 
>> for a while it called them again just fine using my contact and now again it 
>> goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often asking me 
>> again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to call and I 
>> have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather inconsistent at time or maybe 
>> Appleis just fooling around with different settings and ways for SIRI to do 
>> things. I think that SIRI should always first check ones contacts and use 
>> that. I also had it where I asked SIRI to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi 
>> company, and it said "I don't have a number for BV Taxi". When I told SIRI 
>> to "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me the contacts entry with phone number and I 
>> know for sure that a number is there in the proper dialing format. Don't 
>> think there is anything much y ou can do about it except maybe give feedback 
>> to Apple and suggest they should just get their act together and make SIRI 
>> work a bit better.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Sieghard
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>> Of Barry Abbott
>> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM
>> To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
>> Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
>> 
>> Wondering if anyone has a solution
>> 
>> Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
>> Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you 
>> want?"
>> 
>> I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from 
>> my Apple watch under friends it does what I ask
>> 
>> I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being 
>> useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your contacts 
>> Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under iOS 7.
>> I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Barry
>> 
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Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-30 Thread Mary Otten 
This whole business about Siri and asking questions and whether or not it looks 
into your contacts is so strange. I find that recently, Siri has been making 
phone calls to my contacts without asking for confirmation. On the other hand, 
if I ask Siri for a phone number which I know is in my contacts, more often 
than not, it says I found such and such place is this what you want? And it is 
been a search of the web that turned that place up. And in some cases, it is 
the wrong place, not the one in my contacts, but another one in town. It makes 
no sense. This is another area where Apple had a good thing and has not 
developed it. Google eats apples lunch,, as you say in this area.
Mary


Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Cristóbal <crismuno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Even though I’m a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that Google's 
> OK google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for a while now. 
> I don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of my contacts as I 
> find the process to be tedious and prolonged. 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> Alex Stone
> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
> 
> I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to 
> call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so 
> I have no idea why.
> 
>> On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
>> I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing for 
>> our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as well. Then 
>> for a while it called them again just fine using my contact and now again it 
>> goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often asking me 
>> again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to call and I 
>> have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather inconsistent at time or maybe 
>> Appleis just fooling around with different settings and ways for SIRI to do 
>> things. I think that SIRI should always first check ones contacts and use 
>> that. I also had it where I asked SIRI to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi 
>> company, and it said "I don't have a number for BV Taxi". When I told SIRI 
>> to "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me the contacts entry with phone number and I 
>> know for sure that a number is there in the proper dialing format. Don't 
>> think there is anything much y ou can do about it except maybe give feedback 
>> to Apple and suggest they should just get their act together and make SIRI 
>> work a bit better.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Sieghard
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>> Of Barry Abbott
>> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM
>> To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
>> Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
>> 
>> Wondering if anyone has a solution
>> 
>> Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
>> Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you 
>> want?"
>> 
>> I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from 
>> my Apple watch under friends it does what I ask
>> 
>> I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being 
>> useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your contacts 
>> Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under iOS 7.
>> I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Barry
>> 
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Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-30 Thread christopher hallsworth 
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> On 30 Nov 2015, at 17:22, 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone 
> <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Carol P
> Sent from my iPhone using MBraille
> 
> On 30 Nov 2015, at 5:05 p.m., Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This whole business about Siri and asking questions and whether or not it 
> looks into your contacts is so strange. I find that recently, Siri has been 
> making phone calls to my contacts without asking for confirmation. On the 
> other hand, if I ask Siri for a phone number which I know is in my contacts, 
> more often than not, it says I found such and such place is this what you 
> want? And it is been a search of the web that turned that place up. And in 
> some cases, it is the wrong place, not the one in my contacts, but another 
> one in town. It makes no sense. This is another area where Apple had a good 
> thing and has not developed it. Google eats apples lunch,, as you say in this 
> area.
> Mary
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Cristóbal <crismuno...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Even though I’m a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that Google's 
>> OK google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for a while 
>> now. I don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of my 
>> contacts as I find the process to be tedious and prolonged. 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>> Of Alex Stone
>> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
>> 
>> I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to 
>> call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so 
>> I have no idea why.
>> 
>>> On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
>>> I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing for 
>>> our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as well. Then 
>>> for a while it called them again just fine using my contact and now again 
>>> it goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often asking 
>>> me again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to call and 
>>> I have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather inconsistent at time or 
>>> maybe Appleis just fooling around with different settings and ways for SIRI 
>>> to do things. I think that SIRI should always first check ones contacts and 
>>> use that. I also had it where I asked SIRI to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi 
>>> company, and it said "I don't have a number for BV Taxi". When I told SIRI 
>>> to "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me the contacts entry with phone number and 
>>> I know for sure that a number is there in the proper dialing format. Don't 
>>> think there is anything much y ou can do about it except maybe give 
>>> feedback to Apple and suggest they should just get their act together and 
>>> make SIRI work a bit better.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Sieghard
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>>> Of Barry Abbott
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM
>>> To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
>>> Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
>>> 
>>> Wondering if anyone has a solution
>>> 
>>> Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
>>> Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you 
>>> want?"
>>> 
>>> I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from 
>>> my Apple watch under friends it does what I ask
>>> 
>>> I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being 
>>> useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your 
>>> contacts Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under 
>>> iOS 7.
>>> I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> 
>>> Barry
>>> 
>>> --
>>> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.
>>> 
>>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if 
>>> you feel

Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-30 Thread Rajmund 
Hello,
Siri does get confused. If anyone is in the mind of pranks, ask siri to snore. 
She'll or he'll ask to turn on location services and settings, as I have it off 
for a few reasons. It wants to search for snore. Unless, that's what it 
supposed to do?

- Original Message -
From: Mary Otten  <motte...@gmail.com>
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Date: Monday, November 30, 2015 5:05 pm
Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

>
>
> This whole business about Siri and asking questions and whether or not it 
> looks into your contacts is so strange. I find that recently, Siri has been 
> making phone calls to my contacts without asking for confirmation. On the 
> other hand, if I ask Siri for a phone number which I know is in my contacts, 
> more often than not, it says I found such and such place is this what you 
> want? And it is been a search of the web that turned that place up. And in 
> some cases, it is the wrong place, not the one in my contacts, but another 
> one in town. It makes no sense. This is another area where Apple had a good 
> thing and has not developed it. Google eats apples lunch,, as you say in this 
> area.
> Mary
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Cristóbal <crismuno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Even though I'm a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that Google's 
> > OK google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for a while 
> > now. I don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of my 
> > contacts as I find the process to be tedious and prolonged. 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
> > Of Alex Stone
> > Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM
> > To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> > Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
> > 
> > I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to 
> > call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so 
> > I have no idea why.
> > 
> >> On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
> >> I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing 
> >> for our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as well. 
> >> Then for a while it called them again just fine using my contact and now 
> >> again it goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often 
> >> asking me again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to 
> >> call and I have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather inconsistent at 
> >> time or maybe Appleis just fooling around with different settings and ways 
> >> for SIRI to do things. I think that SIRI should always first check ones 
> >> contacts and use that. I also had it where I asked SIRI to call "BV Taxi" 
> >> our local taxi company, and it said "I don't have a number for BV Taxi". 
> >> When I told SIRI to "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me the contacts entry with 
> >> phone number and I know for sure that a number is there in the proper 
> >> dialing format. Don't think there is anything much y ou can do about it 
> >> except maybe give feedback to Apple and suggest they should just get their 
> >> act together and make SIRI work a bit better.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Sieghard
> >> 
> >> -Original Message-
> >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
> >> Of Barry Abbott
> >> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM
> >> To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> >> Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
> >> 
> >> Wondering if anyone has a solution
> >> 
> >> Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
> >> Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you 
> >> want?"
> >> 
> >> I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from 
> >> my Apple watch under friends it does what I ask
> >> 
> >> I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being 
> >> useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your 
> >> contacts Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under 
> >> iOS 7.
> >> I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone..
> >> 
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >> 
> >> Barry
> >> 
>

Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-30 Thread Mary Otten 
Hi Carol,
I agree about dictation. It is not perfect, but it is pretty darn good. And 
thank God for that, because typing on the small screen of the iPhone would be a 
real drag.
Mary


Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 30, 2015, at 9:25 AM, 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone 
> <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Mary,
> 
> You are not alone. There are times when Siri gets in a right mess! At these 
> times, I find he asks the most inappropriate questions, and then once the me 
> to do all sorts of things…
> 
> I agree with you that Apple haven't done a very good job of getting this to 
> work well. Dictation works much better for me than using Siri and asking for 
> something to be done.
> 
> Carol P
> Sent from my iPhone using MBraille
> 
> On 30 Nov 2015, at 5:05 p.m., Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This whole business about Siri and asking questions and whether or not it 
> looks into your contacts is so strange. I find that recently, Siri has been 
> making phone calls to my contacts without asking for confirmation. On the 
> other hand, if I ask Siri for a phone number which I know is in my contacts, 
> more often than not, it says I found such and such place is this what you 
> want? And it is been a search of the web that turned that place up. And in 
> some cases, it is the wrong place, not the one in my contacts, but another 
> one in town. It makes no sense. This is another area where Apple had a good 
> thing and has not developed it. Google eats apples lunch,, as you say in this 
> area.
> Mary
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Cristóbal <crismuno...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Even though I’m a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that Google's 
>> OK google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for a while 
>> now. I don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of my 
>> contacts as I find the process to be tedious and prolonged. 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>> Of Alex Stone
>> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
>> 
>> I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to 
>> call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so 
>> I have no idea why.
>> 
>>> On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
>>> I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing for 
>>> our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as well. Then 
>>> for a while it called them again just fine using my contact and now again 
>>> it goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often asking 
>>> me again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to call and 
>>> I have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather inconsistent at time or 
>>> maybe Appleis just fooling around with different settings and ways for SIRI 
>>> to do things. I think that SIRI should always first check ones contacts and 
>>> use that. I also had it where I asked SIRI to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi 
>>> company, and it said "I don't have a number for BV Taxi". When I told SIRI 
>>> to "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me the contacts entry with phone number and 
>>> I know for sure that a number is there in the proper dialing format. Don't 
>>> think there is anything much y ou can do about it except maybe give 
>>> feedback to Apple and suggest they should just get their act together and 
>>> make SIRI work a bit better.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Sieghard
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>>> Of Barry Abbott
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM
>>> To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
>>> Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
>>> 
>>> Wondering if anyone has a solution
>>> 
>>> Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
>>> Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you 
>>> want?"
>>> 
>>> I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from 
>>> my Apple watch under friends it does what I ask
>>> 
>>> I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being 
>>> useful when wanting to call somet

RE: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-30 Thread Rose Combs 
Saw the same thing this weekend in my cousin's car.  She would say call Grandpa 
and it would ask her if she wanted to call Grandpa? Then it would ask her for 
line number, ... It was annoying since there is only one Grandpa in her list.  
After all the questions and there were more than I typed, it said Grandpa was 
not found!  She gave up and pulled the phone out of the Bluetooth on her car 
and sure enough, there was a Grandpa in the list!  

Now mind you, our grandpa is actually deceased but she got her contacts from 
her grandson's phone and has never fixed anything, so it was actually her 
husband the grandson's grandpa, but it has worked in the past.  
Siri has since the last couple of updates been useless for me, the answers I do 
get are never the right ones, and I used her before 9 was released without a 
problem.  

She or he seems to come up with smart alec answers which may be cute the first 
time you hear them but become so annoying.  Right now I use her to set timers 
and alarms and not for much else and I used her often before October.  


Rose Combs
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Alex Stone
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 9:56 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

i've never come across this, if i ask siri to call a contact it usually 
works, I've never known it to look up a phone number for me unless I ask 
it to.

On 28/11/2015 16:52, Barry Abbott wrote:
> Wondering if anyone has a solution
>
> Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
> Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you 
> want?"
>
> I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from my 
> Apple watch under friends it does what I ask
>
> I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being 
> useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your contacts
> Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under iOS 7.
> I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Barry
>

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Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-30 Thread Monica Jones 

Amen! Yes! I get so frustrated when this happens.


-Original Message- 
From: Mary Otten

Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 11:05 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

This whole business about Siri and asking questions and whether or not it 
looks into your contacts is so strange. I find that recently, Siri has been 
making phone calls to my contacts without asking for confirmation. On the 
other hand, if I ask Siri for a phone number which I know is in my contacts, 
more often than not, it says I found such and such place is this what you 
want? And it is been a search of the web that turned that place up. And in 
some cases, it is the wrong place, not the one in my contacts, but another 
one in town. It makes no sense. This is another area where Apple had a good 
thing and has not developed it. Google eats apples lunch,, as you say in 
this area.

Mary


Sent from my iPhone


On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Cristóbal <crismuno...@gmail.com> wrote:

Even though I’m a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that 
Google's OK google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for 
a while now. I don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of 
my contacts as I find the process to be tedious and prolonged.

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Alex Stone

Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to
call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so
I have no idea why.


On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing 
for our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as 
well. Then for a while it called them again just fine using my contact 
and now again it goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI 
is often asking me again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I 
wanted to call and I have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather 
inconsistent at time or maybe Appleis just fooling around with different 
settings and ways for SIRI to do things. I think that SIRI should always 
first check ones contacts and use that. I also had it where I asked SIRI 
to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi company, and it said "I don't have a 
number for BV Taxi". When I told SIRI to "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me 
the contacts entry with phone number and I know for sure that a number is 
there in the proper dialing format. Don't think there is anything much y 
ou can do about it except maybe give feedback to Apple and suggest they 
should just get their act together and make SIRI work a bit better.


Regards,
Sieghard

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On 
Behalf Of Barry Abbott

Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM
To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

Wondering if anyone has a solution

Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you 
want?"


I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling 
from my Apple watch under friends it does what I ask


I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being 
useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your 
contacts Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under 
iOS 7.

I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.

Thanks in advance.

Barry

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Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-30 Thread Monica Jones 
I understand for sure. I'll ask Siri to do some things, but I find that too 
often, I have to clean up after it. I do like dictation most of the time 
though. It is much better than it once was.



-Original Message- 
From: 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone

Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 11:25 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

Mary,

You are not alone. There are times when Siri gets in a right mess! At these 
times, I find he asks the most inappropriate questions, and then once the me 
to do all sorts of things…


I agree with you that Apple haven't done a very good job of getting this to 
work well. Dictation works much better for me than using Siri and asking for 
something to be done.


Carol P
Sent from my iPhone using MBraille

On 30 Nov 2015, at 5:05 p.m., Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:

This whole business about Siri and asking questions and whether or not it 
looks into your contacts is so strange. I find that recently, Siri has been 
making phone calls to my contacts without asking for confirmation. On the 
other hand, if I ask Siri for a phone number which I know is in my contacts, 
more often than not, it says I found such and such place is this what you 
want? And it is been a search of the web that turned that place up. And in 
some cases, it is the wrong place, not the one in my contacts, but another 
one in town. It makes no sense. This is another area where Apple had a good 
thing and has not developed it. Google eats apples lunch,, as you say in 
this area.

Mary


Sent from my iPhone


On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Cristóbal <crismuno...@gmail.com> wrote:

Even though I’m a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that 
Google's OK google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for 
a while now. I don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of 
my contacts as I find the process to be tedious and prolonged.

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Alex Stone

Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to
call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so
I have no idea why.


On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing 
for our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as 
well. Then for a while it called them again just fine using my contact 
and now again it goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI 
is often asking me again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I 
wanted to call and I have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather 
inconsistent at time or maybe Appleis just fooling around with different 
settings and ways for SIRI to do things. I think that SIRI should always 
first check ones contacts and use that. I also had it where I asked SIRI 
to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi company, and it said "I don't have a 
number for BV Taxi". When I told SIRI to "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me 
the contacts entry with phone number and I know for sure that a number is 
there in the proper dialing format. Don't think there is anything much y 
ou can do about it except maybe give feedback to Apple and suggest they 
should just get their act together and make SIRI work a bit better.


Regards,
Sieghard

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On 
Behalf Of Barry Abbott

Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM
To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

Wondering if anyone has a solution

Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you 
want?"


I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling 
from my Apple watch under friends it does what I ask


I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being 
useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your 
contacts Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under 
iOS 7.

I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.

Thanks in advance.

Barry

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Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-30 Thread Monica Jones 
Yes, it will call businesses for you as well. I have run into the same 
issue, though, that he has mentioned here. Siri will say it isn't in my 
contacts when I know it is.



-Original Message- 
From: John Diakogeorgiou

Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 11:14 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

My experience is that it doesn't call business just individuals.

On 11/28/15, Alex Stone <alex.st...@gmail.com> wrote:

i've never come across this, if i ask siri to call a contact it usually
works, I've never known it to look up a phone number for me unless I ask
it to.

On 28/11/2015 16:52, Barry Abbott wrote:

Wondering if anyone has a solution

Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you
want?"

I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling 
from

my Apple watch under friends it does what I ask

I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being
useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your
contacts
Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under iOS 7.
I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.

Thanks in advance.

Barry



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Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-30 Thread Monica Jones 
When it works, it's great, but when it tells me such and such is not in my 
contacts and I know it is, I want to tell my little Siri man where he can 
go. But lol, because I'm not one to stay mad long, I end up laughing. I 
figure I need to do something constructive about the problem like making 
Apple aware of this.



-Original Message- 
From: Cristóbal

Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 11:01 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

Even though I’m a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that Google's 
OK google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for a while 
now. I don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of my 
contacts as I find the process to be tedious and prolonged.

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Alex Stone

Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to
call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so
I have no idea why.

On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing 
for our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as well. 
Then for a while it called them again just fine using my contact and now 
again it goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often 
asking me again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to 
call and I have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather inconsistent at 
time or maybe Appleis just fooling around with different settings and ways 
for SIRI to do things. I think that SIRI should always first check ones 
contacts and use that. I also had it where I asked SIRI to call "BV Taxi" 
our local taxi company, and it said "I don't have a number for BV Taxi". 
When I told SIRI to "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me the contacts entry with 
phone number and I know for sure that a number is there in the proper 
dialing format. Don't think there is anything much y ou can do about it 
except maybe give feedback to Apple and suggest they should just get their 
act together and make SIRI work a bit better.


Regards,
Sieghard

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Barry Abbott

Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM
To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

Wondering if anyone has a solution

Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you 
want?"


I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from 
my Apple watch under friends it does what I ask


I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being 
useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your 
contacts Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under 
iOS 7.

I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.

Thanks in advance.

Barry

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RE: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-29 Thread Sieghard Weitzel 
I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing for our 
local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as well. Then for a 
while it called them again just fine using my contact and now again it goes 
back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often asking me again if 
the person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to call and I have to 
confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather inconsistent at time or maybe Appleis 
just fooling around with different settings and ways for SIRI to do things. I 
think that SIRI should always first check ones contacts and use that. I also 
had it where I asked SIRI to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi company, and it said 
"I don't have a number for BV Taxi". When I told SIRI to "Show me BV Taxi" it 
showed me the contacts entry with phone number and I know for sure that a 
number is there in the proper dialing format. Don't think there is anything 
much y ou can do about it except maybe give feedback to Apple and suggest they 
should just get their act together and make SIRI work a bit better.

Regards,
Sieghard

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Barry Abbott
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM
To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone 
Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

Wondering if anyone has a solution 

Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you want?"

I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from my 
Apple watch under friends it does what I ask

I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being useful 
when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your contacts Is there 
any way to change it so that it works like it did under iOS 7.
I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.

Thanks in advance.

Barry

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Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-29 Thread Alex Stone 
I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to 
call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so 
I have no idea why.


On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:

I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing for our local taxi company even 
though I have them in my contacts as well. Then for a while it called them again just fine using my contact 
and now again it goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often asking me again if the 
person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to call and I have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather 
inconsistent at time or maybe Appleis just fooling around with different settings and ways for SIRI to do 
things. I think that SIRI should always first check ones contacts and use that. I also had it where I asked 
SIRI to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi company, and it said "I don't have a number for BV 
Taxi". When I told SIRI to "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me the contacts entry with phone number 
and I know for sure that a number is there in the proper dialing format. Don't think there is anything much y 
ou can do about it except maybe give feedback to Apple and suggest they should just get their act together 
and make SIRI work a bit better.

Regards,
Sieghard

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Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

Wondering if anyone has a solution

Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you want?"

I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from my 
Apple watch under friends it does what I ask

I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being useful 
when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your contacts Is there 
any way to change it so that it works like it did under iOS 7.
I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.

Thanks in advance.

Barry

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RE: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-29 Thread Cristóbal 
Even though I’m a big time Apple fanboy, I will readily admit that Google's OK 
google feature eats Siri's lunch and probably has done so for a while now. I 
don't even bother asking Siri to initiate a call to any of my contacts as I 
find the process to be tedious and prolonged. 
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Alex Stone
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:15 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

I find that Siri almost always asks me to confirm the person I want to 
call, even if it's my wife for instance, and Siri knows she's my wife so 
I have no idea why.

On 29/11/2015 21:12, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
> I find this quite interesting since for a while SIRI did the same thing for 
> our local taxi company even though I have them in my contacts as well. Then 
> for a while it called them again just fine using my contact and now again it 
> goes back to looking it up online. Also, right now SIRI is often asking me 
> again if the person I told SIRI to call was the one I wanted to call and I 
> have to confirm first. It seems SIRI is rather inconsistent at time or maybe 
> Appleis just fooling around with different settings and ways for SIRI to do 
> things. I think that SIRI should always first check ones contacts and use 
> that. I also had it where I asked SIRI to call "BV Taxi" our local taxi 
> company, and it said "I don't have a number for BV Taxi". When I told SIRI to 
> "Show me BV Taxi" it showed me the contacts entry with phone number and I 
> know for sure that a number is there in the proper dialing format. Don't 
> think there is anything much y ou can do about it except maybe give feedback 
> to Apple and suggest they should just get their act together and make SIRI 
> work a bit better.
>
> Regards,
> Sieghard
>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> Barry Abbott
> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:52 AM
> To: 'Adrian Leong' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone
>
> Wondering if anyone has a solution
>
> Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
> Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you 
> want?"
>
> I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from my 
> Apple watch under friends it does what I ask
>
> I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being 
> useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your contacts 
> Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under iOS 7.
> I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Barry
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Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-28 Thread Alex Stone 
i've never come across this, if i ask siri to call a contact it usually 
works, I've never known it to look up a phone number for me unless I ask 
it to.


On 28/11/2015 16:52, Barry Abbott wrote:

Wondering if anyone has a solution

Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you want?"

I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from my 
Apple watch under friends it does what I ask

I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being useful 
when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your contacts
Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under iOS 7.
I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.

Thanks in advance.

Barry



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Re: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-28 Thread John Diakogeorgiou 
My experience is that it doesn't call business just individuals.

On 11/28/15, Alex Stone  wrote:
> i've never come across this, if i ask siri to call a contact it usually
> works, I've never known it to look up a phone number for me unless I ask
> it to.
>
> On 28/11/2015 16:52, Barry Abbott wrote:
>> Wondering if anyone has a solution
>>
>> Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
>> Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you
>> want?"
>>
>> I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from
>> my Apple watch under friends it does what I ask
>>
>> I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being
>> useful when wanting to call something or someone who is not in your
>> contacts
>> Is there any way to change it so that it works like it did under iOS 7.
>> I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Barry
>>
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RE: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

2015-11-28 Thread Gary Bowers 
I don't have this problem on my phone running the latest update. You spelled 
"Caseno" with an e. I did find many hits for "Casino" taxi service, with an i 
in place of your e in the word "Casino."

You could try spelling it Casino in your contacts.

Gary 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GaryDBowers
Try spelling Casino with an I instead of the e.

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Subject: SIRI asking too many questions when calling with an iPhone

Wondering if anyone has a solution 

Request to SIRI: "Call Caseno Taxi"
Response: "I found a Caseno Taxi on Nova Lee Drive - is that the one you want?"

I have this company in my contacts and as a favourite. When   calling from my 
Apple watch under friends it does what I ask

I find this process to be very frustrating. I can understand this being useful 
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I find it most inefficient. Why didn't they just leave well enough alone.

Thanks in advance.

Barry

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