You are welcome. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shannon Dyer Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 8:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: List of siri commands?
Thank you very much for this. Shannon On Nov 4, 2012, at 9:25 PM, "dan" <[email protected]> wrote: > Siri Commands and more: > *I. Special notes: > 1. Apple now has a dedicated line for accessibility issues - you can reach > them > at 877-204-3930. The number is also listed on the general contact > page found at: > http://www.apple.com/support/contact/ > > > 2. A link to specific directions for features of the IPhone and IPad are > found is on the nextline. > http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html > > > *II. siri Commands > Press and hold the home button. Then let go when hearing the short ding. > Ask, “what can I ask you One can also say “what can I say.” > .” You will get a list of things you can ask. > > List of Siri voice commands inside > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Address Book > > Querying Contacts > ? What's Michael's address? > ? What is Susan Park's phone number? > ? When is my wife's birthday? > ? Show Jennifer's home email address > > Finding Contacts > ? Show Jason Russell > ? Find people named Park > ? Who is Michael Manning? > > Relationships > ? My mom is Susan Park > ? Michael Manning is my brother > ? Call my brother at work > > Calendars > > Adding Events > ? Set up a meeting at 9 > ? Set up a meeting with Michael at 9 > ? Meet with Lisa at noon > ? Set up a meeting about hiring tomorrow at 9am ? New appointment with > Susan Park Friday at 3 ? Schedule a planning meeting at 8:30 today in > the boardroom > > Changing events > ? Move my 3pm meeting to 4:30 > ? Reschedule my appointment with Dr. Manning to next Monday at 9am ? > Add Lisa to my meeting with Jason ? Cancel the budget review meeting > > Asking about events > ? What does the rest of my day look like? > ? What's on my calendar for Friday? > ? When is my next appointment? > ? When am I meeting with Michael? > ? Where is my next meeting? > > Alarms > > Setting Alarms > ? Wake me up tomorrow at 7am > ? Set an alarm for 6:30am > ? Wake me up in 8 hours > ? Change my 6:30 alarm to 6:45 > ? Turn off my 6:30 alarm > ? Delete my 7:30 alarm > > Checking the Clock > ? What time is it? > ? What time is it in Berlin? > ? What is today's date? > ? What's the date this Saturday? > > Using a Timer > ? Set the timer for ten minutes > ? Show the timer > ? Pause the timer > ? Resume > ? Reset the timer > ? Stop it > > Email > > Sending Messages > ? Email Lisa about the trip > ? Email Jennifer about the change in plans ? New email to Susan Park ? > Mail Dad about the rent check ? Email Dr. Manning and say I got the > forms, thanks ? Mail Lisa and Jason about the party and say I had a > great time > > Checking Messages > ? Check email > ? Any new email from Michael today? > ? Show new mail about the lease > ? Show the email from Lisa yesterday > > Responding to Messages > ? Reply Dear Susan sorry about the late payment ? Call him at work > > Friends > > Checking Up on Friends > ? Where's Jason? > ? Where is my sister? > ? Is my wife at home? > ? Where are all my friends? > ? Who is here? > ? Who is near me? > > Maps > > Directions > ? How do I get home? > ? Show 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino California ? Directions to my dad's > work > > Local Businesses > ? Find coffee near me > ? Where is Starbucks? > ? Find some burger joints in Baltimore ? Find a gas station within > walking distance ? Good Mexican restaurants around here > > Messages > > Sending Texts > ? Tell Susan I'll be right there > ? Send a message to Jason Russell > ? Send a message to Lisa saying how about tomorrow ? Tell Jennifer the show > was great ? Send a message to Susan on her mobile saying I'll be late ? Send > a message to 408 555 1212 ? Text Jason and Lisa where are you? > > Reading Texts > ? Read my new messages > ? Read it again > > Replying to Texts > ? Reply that's great news > ? Tell him I'll be there in 10 minutes ? Call her > > Music > > Playback > ? Play The Light of the Sun > ? Play Trouble > ? Play Taking Back Sunday shuffled > ? Play Alicia Keys > ? Play some blues > ? Play my party mix > ? Shuffle my roadtrip playlist > ? Play > ? Pause > ? Skip > > Notes > > Creating and finding notes > ? Note that I spent $12 on lunch > ? Note: check out that new Alicia Keys album ? Find my restaurant note > ? Create a reading list note ? Add Tom Sawyer to my reading list note > > Phone > > Phone calls > ? Call Jason > ? Call Jennifer Wright mobile > ? Call Susan on her work phone > ? Call 408 555 1212 > ? Call home > ? FaceTime Lisa > > Reminders > > Requesting reminders > ? Remind me to call mom > ? Remind me to call my mom when I get home ? Remember to take an > umbrella ? Remind me take my medicine at 6am tomorrow ? Remind me to > pick up flowers when I leave here ? Remind me when I leave to call > Jason ? Remind me to finish the report by 6 > > Stocks > > Checking Stocks > ? What's Apple's stock price? > ? What is Apple's PE ratio? > ? What did Yahoo close at today? > ? How is the Nikkei doing? > ? How are the markets doing? > ? What is the Dow at? > > Weather > > Checking the Forecast > ? What's the weather for today? > ? What's the weather for tomorrow? > ? Will it rain in Cupertino this week? > ? Check next week's forecast for Burlington ? What's the forecast for this > evening? > ? How's the weather in Tampa right now? > ? How hot will it be in Palm Springs this weekend? > ? What's the high for Anchorage on Thursday? > ? What's the temperature outside? > ? How windy is it out there? > ? When is sunrise in Paris? > > Websearch > > Looking up information > ? Search the web for Bora Bora > ? Search for vegetarian pasta recipes > ? Search the web for best cable plans > ? Google the war of 1812 > ? Search Wikipedia for Abraham Lincoln ? Search for news about the > World Cup ? Bing Alicia Keys > > Using Wolfram Alpha > ? How many calories in a bagel? > ? What is an 18% tip on $86.74 for four people? > ? Who's buried in Grant's tomb? > ? How long do dogs live? > ? What is the Gossamer Condor? > ? What's the square root of 128? > ? How many dollars is €45? > ? What was the Best Picture of 1983? > ? How many days until Christmas? > ? How far away is the Sun? > ? When is the next solar eclipse? > ? Show me the Orion constellation > ? What's the population of Jamaica? > ? How high is Mt. Everest? > ? How deep is the Atlantic ocean? > ? What's the price of gasoline in Chicago? > What movies are snowing (your town’s name.) > > Also here is an article called "my day with siri" > > My day with Siri > > Lex Friedman > @lexfri Oct 2, 2012 3:20 AM > print Lex FriedmanSenior Writer, Macworld Lex uses a MacBook Pro, an iPhone > 4S, a third-generation iPad, a Kindle 3, a TiVo HD, and a treadmill desk, and > loves them all. His latest book, a children's book parody for adults, is > called "The Kid in the Crib." Lex lives in New Jersey with his wife and three > young kids. > More by Lex Friedman > > I admit it: I love Siri. It helps that I work from home, so I can talk to my > phone without inhibitions. It doesn't hurt that I generally crave pseudohuman > contact. But the real reason is simply that I find Siri so useful. And in iOS > 6, Siri has become even more useful than it was before. > > The iOS virtual assistant has learned to respond accurately to a variety of > new instructions. You can now use Siri to get information about movies, > sports, restaurant reviews, and reservations, in addition to testing its > know-how regarding weather, stocks, and the like. You can also use Siri to > post to Facebook and Twitter, launch apps, and get directions—and that’s all > in addition to its ability to set timers, send messages, perform searches, > and more. > > I now find myself using Siri throughout the day, for a wide variety of tasks > and queries. Here's how one such day might go. > > Morning routines > First thing in the morning, I wake up to one of my kids clomping into > my room. Siri can’t help with that. But when it’s time to figure out > what to wear, I generally ask Siri two questions. "What’s today’s > forecast?" (or some variation) comes first. (You can phrase that > question and many other comments almost any way you want, and Siri > will understand; you don't have to memorize one specific way to phrase > a question.) > > Once I know how warmly to dress that day, I find out what kinds of clothes I > should put on. The key factor is whether it’s a normal working-from-home day > or a day when I might actually interact with other human beings. So I say, > "Show me today." That instructs Siri to present a list of all the events on > my calendar for the day. > > Armed with that intel, I’m off to shave and shower. Inevitably, at some > point—often during the toothbrushing portion of my ablutions—I’ll remember > something I forgot to do the night before. So I once again turn to Siri: > "Remind me to put the DVD in the mailbox at 8 a.m." > > The workday begins > It’s rare that a workday of mine gets under way without a reminder or two > from the night before beeping on my Mac and iOS devices, something like > “Write the Siri story”—almost undoubtedly a reminder I set via Siri. > > While colleagues formally schedule most of our office meetings in our shared > calendaring system, someone occasionally sends out an email instead. Even > though Fantastical is in my menu bar and Calendar sits patiently in my Dock, > I often turn to Siri for help instead: "Put 'Call with Dan' on my calendar > for 1 p.m. Pacific Time today." > > As I research stories throughout the day, I rely on Siri to place important > phone calls, too. Sometimes I just say "Call" followed by the actual digits; > if it’s a contact in my address book, I might instead say "Call Apple PR." > > Come lunchtime, if I'm cooking, I time it via Siri: "Set a timer for 12 > minutes." (Note that Reminders works great with relative times, too; you can > say "Remind me to check the oven in 12 minutes," if that’s more your style.) > Sometimes, during lunch, I’ll think to call my sister in Israel. But since I > never remember the time difference, I tend to ask my best friend: "Siri, what > time is it in Jerusalem?" > > Siri knows > Thanks to iOS 6, I can use Siri to satisfy other burning questions at lunch > now, too. "When do the Eagles play next?" When Siri answers, I can then use > it to compare the starting quarterbacks’ stats, by asking about each one in > turn. > > This week the Eagles play the Arizona Cardinals, with former Eagles > backup Kevin Kolb taking the start for the Cardinals at quarterback. I > couldn’t get Siri to understand me when I tried to say Kolb’s last > name, so I used a clunky but functional workaround. First I asked > about the Cardinals' roster: "What’s the Arizona Cardinals' starting > lineup?" When I confirmed that Kolb wore number 4, I asked Siri, "Who > wears number 4 for the Arizona Cardinals?" That brought up the stats I > was after. You can get even more creative with your questioning when > Siri can’t parse a name properly: "Who’s taller, Arizona Cardinals > quarterback number 4 or Eagles quarterback Michael Vick?" (It's Kolb > by 3 inches.) > > The fact that Siri struggles with less-common names can become problematic, > not just for sports queries, but for movies too. Generally Siri will perform > capably in understanding names that belong to the people in your address > book. But when it comes to athletes and movie stars, Siri fares far better > with “Tom Brady” than “Nnamdi Asomugha.” > > I try to schedule any outside appointments for around the lunch hour, too. > When I have one to attend, I rely on Siri to get me there. It’s impressively > good at parsing addresses: "Give me directions to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in > Washington, D.C." will get me to the White House. And I can always return > home again with a simple "Take me home" request. If I’ll be back unexpectedly > late, I can iMessage my coworkers with Siri, too: "iMessage Dan Moren that > I’ll be back in another 20 minutes." New in iOS 6, Siri is much less strict > about how precisely to phrase such instructions; it was far pickier in iOS 5, > requiring more cue words. > > The dinner hour > As dinner approaches, most nights, my wife tells me what she has cooked for > that evening. Sometimes she comes into my office and says: “We’re going out > for dinner tonight.” That’s when I turn to Siri, which in iOS 6 lets you get > amusingly specific: "What are the best kid-friendly Italian restaurants > within 5 miles?" > > In central New Jersey, where I live, Siri knows plenty about some > restaurants, little about others, and nothing at all about a few too many. If > we lived somewhere more metropolitan, I probably could use Siri to make > reservations, but out here very few restaurants support OpenTable. You can > find some of your nearby options with a phrase like: "Where can I get a > reservation for five people tonight at 6 p.m.?" Siri will then gather what it > can from Yelp; if that service covers your area well, you’ll be in relatively > good shape. But if it doesn’t, Siri can’t compensate for that subpar data. > > Evening > Once the kids are asleep, my wife and I occasionally pick a movie to watch. > Generally our choices are limited to what’s streaming on Netflix or HBO Go, > but we let Siri help narrow our selections: "What’s a good comedy starring > Jennifer Aniston?" More often, we use Siri to tell us whether a movie we're > considering is worth watching: "Is the movie Rumor Has It any good?" > > I have three young kids, so I only very rarely see a movie in an actual > theater. When I do, though, I can now rely on Siri’s knowledge of what’s > playing (which, like its knowledge of who stars in which movies, comes from > Rotten Tomatoes). As with Yelp, the quality of the data you get from such > queries will depend on how well Rotten Tomatoes covers your area. When I ask > about movies playing near here, Siri performs beautifully. When a colleague > in the San Francisco Bay Area asks for that information, Siri returns > incomplete or erroneous data—more movies than the theater has screens, for > example, or results for theaters too many miles away. > > When it’s finally time to retire for the evening, I don't use Siri to set an > alarm for the next morning. I have kids for that. On those rare occasions > when I need to wake up even before they do, or when I'm traveling, I turn to > Siri one last time: "Wake me at 5:30 a.m." > > Throughout the day > I like launching apps with Siri, because it’s generally faster even than > using Spotlight search. You can say "Launch Facebook," "Open Tweetbot," or > "Play Angry Birds." If you want to open the camera, you can say "Take a > picture," though that’s not necessarily faster than using the Camera > lock-screen shortcut. > > If you tell Siri "Do not disturb," it understands that you’re alluding to the > new feature in iOS 6 to mute alerts and notifications, but it can’t enable > that feature for you: Instead, it will helpfully provide a link to that > setting. > > Which is to admit that, as helpful as Siri is, I still have plenty of items > on my Siri wish list that it hasn’t learned to handle. For example, you can’t > use Siri to add or edit contacts, to go directly to specific websites, or to > explicitly control third-party apps. And Siri still can’t toggle settings > like Bluetooth. > > As mentioned above, Siri flails when you try to ask about athletes or movie > stars with unusual names it can’t transcribe. And its information is > generally only as good as its providers can offer. > > When Siri understands you on the first try, and when its answers are > accurate, it’s awesome, and indistinguishable from magic. When it needs > multiple tries to understand you, or when its answers are no good, Siri > brings back unpleasant Newton memories. > > That said, with Siri’s gains in iOS 6—not to mention back-end improvements > that seem to have Siri understanding me better than ever—it has become an > even more indispensable way for me to interact with my iOS devices. Despite > its occasional shortcomings, I’m grateful that it’s there. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Jennie Facer > Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 7:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: List of siri commands? > > I would also love to know this as I am getting my new iPhone 5 this week. > > Jenn > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Shannon Dyer > Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 6:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: List of siri commands? > > Hi, all. > > Does someone happen to know where I can find a list of commands Siri > understands? I would very much appreciate the information. > > Shannon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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