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 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. 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