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 etc. that is just as it is, I assume SIRI does not use Google for this information and since Google is definitely the best source for that results that come from other sources may just not be as good or it may just not find them. I did, for example, just ask SIRI to look for hardware stores. It gave me 2 or 3 options including a rental place, but it missed Canadian Tire which has a big tool and hardware section (it came up under department stores) and it also missed two building supply stores which both sell lots of tools and hardware. When I asked for building supply stores it gave me the smithers Lumber Yard first which is definitely a good thing, but Castle Home Centre which is in a small town about 10 Km away was not listed at all, instead a business which does roof and other insulation was listed and also a cleaning business and a couple of construction businesses came up. Obviously somewhere online the cleaning business must be listed under building supplies, but it's definitely a bit strange what sometimes is included. When I Googled "Look for building supply stores nearby" on my computer (exact phrase I used to ask SIRI), the first 3 results are Smithers Lumber Yard, Smithers Home Hardware and Bulkley Valley Home Centre which is the franchise of that Castle building supply store I mentioned earlier and those 3 are definitely what a local would say are the top choices. SIRI has its limitations, but it rarely has problems dialing my contacts, doing all the various phone functions and many other things. With your contacts you might want to look at how you have them entered. Do you set them up correctly with first name under first name, last name under last name and all that? Do you correctly format the phone number, the best option I sto use the international dialing format, for example, +1 (202) 555-5555. You can just use the 10-digit phone number with area code, but if you are calling a long distance number or if you are away and call a number at home which then is long distance, at best it will first tell you that this is a long distance call before the call goes through. Here in Canada the call will go through after you get that message, not sure if that works the same way in the US. If I put the +1 then it's never an issue.
Regards, Sieghardever somewhere -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Terri Stimmel Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 9:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Making Siri work better for me Hello everyone, As you all likely remember, I wrote last week and said that Siri was dumb. well, I still feel the same way, for the most part. I know how to speak to Siri. I know to wait for the tone. I understand how I need to speak to it. But 1 reason I get so upset with it is, because I can ask it to call a certain contact, and it can't do it. I say the contact just like it is, within my contacts. but other strange issues are when I tell it to look up polmonology specialests in Saint Louis, and it tells me it can't find any. Google never did this stuff to me, ever! But for more than 1 reason, I like the iPhone better. I did put the Google assistant on my phone. But I don't like that I just can't say, Ok Google, and it won't come up. So are there things I can do, to possibly make Siri work better for me? My location is set, and the Apps I want it to work with, are set. So I am honestly not quite sure what else to do. Any thoughts and suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thank you, Terri -- 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 that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" 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 https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" 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 https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
