Re: Making Siri work better for me

2018-01-17 Thread Richard Turner
I've not had too much trouble with Siri for calling people in my contacts. I use the first and last name fields. For businesses, I just put the business name in the last name field since using the company field gets very mixed results. For directions, I either say "give me directions to Fred

Re: Making Siri work better for me

2018-01-17 Thread John Panarese
Instead of saying, call "person name", try, dial "person name". I have had much more success. Also, for directions, I try to be specific. "give me directions to the closest IHOP to my current location" for example. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631)

Re: Making Siri work better for me

2018-01-17 Thread MONICA JONES
as far as I can tell, Siri was worse in Ios eleven with hey siri on. She does a lousy job when I ask her to call a contact. She/he was a little better in ten but not much. Siri will tell me where one option is located or that he/ can't find any such thing. Yes, I'm southern but I do know how to

RE: Making Siri work better for me

2018-01-17 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Terri, You know, since your first post on this matter, I have given a lot of thought to your problem. Can you tell us by what means you are accessing Siri? This is to say, are you speaking directly into the phone? Or are you using a headset. Is the phone in a case? Or not. If you

RE: Making Siri work better for me

2018-01-17 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Have you set up Hey SIRI in SIRI Settings? If SIRI does not understand your speech this may help just a bit since setting this up involves you saying a few specific sentences to SIRI in order to train SIRI to respond to your voice. As for SIRI finding certain businesses by category, profession