Sieghard! I am, moderately, au fait with dictating a
message of which I am in control, but your tips on editting will come in very
handy as I did not,
really, know how to do that.
I was experimenting with using Siri as a go-between, but I have only done it a
couple of times so I
will keep practising, an, no doubt, lose the few friends that I have! HAA HAA!
Jewel
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From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <siegh...@live.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 2:10 AM
To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: Editting text messages sent via Siri: HELP pleaset
Hi Jewel,
You may want to just try and use dictation in Messages instead of telling SIRI
to send a message to
somebody followed by the message text. I only do that if it's pretty short, if
it's longer I just
open Messages, tap on Compose, find the person I want to text and then put
focus into the message
field. Now you can use the 2-finger double tap to start and stop dictation and
you can dictate in
smaller portions of text or maybe sentence by sentence etc. Then of course when
you are done you are
in that text message field and you can turn the rotor to words or characters
and move around to
edit. If you, for example, think it said "Hello Kim" instead of "Hello Ken",
you can double tap to
move the insertion point to the start, then with the rotor set to characters
swipe down until you
are across "Hello" and then make sure it says "Ken" and not "Kim". If it is
"Kim" you can put the
cursor on the "m" of "Kim", tap delete twice to get rid of the "m" and "I" and
then type "e" and
"n".
The fact is that editing on an iOS device with Voiceover and probably even for
sighted people
without Voiceover, is a bit of a pain in the neck, it's absolutely not as quick
and efficient as
editing on a computer with a screenreader like Jaws, but it can be done.
Regards,
Sieghard
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Jewel
Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 7:39 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Editting text messages sent via Siri: HELP pleaset
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my use of the iPhone is pretty limmited, but I am, gradually, very gradually,
adding new, I hesitate
to say * skills, but new somethings to my repertoire.
An American friend of mine, no doubt in an attempt to force me into deep and
dangerous waters:
"some people choose their friends, while others have them thrust upon them!"
has taken to texting me
and here we come to the reason for my request for help.
Yesterday morning, I received such and started by attempting to send a reply by
using the typing
keyboard. which I aborted as it was going to hell in a hand basket, and then I
started another one
by dictating to Siri, but he cut me off after I had uttered only a few words.
However, I then emailed my friend, who, by the way, is one that I chose, not
one that was thrust
upon me, about the aborted typed text in which I said that I couldn't get rid
of the wretched thing
and voice over just kept say "done button--done button--done button:
done--done--done--done--done
button--done button", and then it reads the bit of the text that I had written,
but if there is a
delete or done button anywhere on the screen, it is making a darned good job of
hiding.
I have, briefly, located "actions available" but before I have a chance to take
advantage of what it
offers, it has vanished, not to be spotted again for days.
Staying with messages sent via Siri: Is there any way of editting a message
sent in this way?
For instance, in the second message I sent to this anonymous yank cobber, I
said that I was sending
the message by way of Siri, and though it was not * too wonderful, it was a
lot better than my
first effort.
I knew from the way Siri read it back that he had it written as t o, not t o
o wonderful!
I sent a spoken message to Ken, another chosen friend, this time a genuine Kiwi
bloke, telling him
that I hadn't won a single brass razoo on Lotto and I started it: Hi Ken! but
I am sure that Siri
wrote Hi Kim!
With this latest rash of upgrades, is it possible to set Siri, specifically,
to read messages a
little bit slower? It can be very difficult to hear what he is saying as he
gabbles his way through
the message: I don't have speech speed set at anything like the rate that
some people do: I have
mine at around 50%. Any slower than that, and it is reminiscent of a funeral
dirge, and is not all
that enjoyable to listen to.
Jewel
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