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) 724-4479 Email, [email protected] Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > On Jan 17, 2018, at 6:56 PM, MONICA JONES <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 enunciate. > (grin) On the other hand, I asked her to find hotels for me in Murfreesboro, > TONIGHT and the old gal did a fantastic job.rom Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > On Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 12:47 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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]. 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