I agree that Siri is very stupid when it comes to dictation. I read before on Applevis and even on Apple's own support pages how you are supposed to say "Caps" if you want to start a word with a capital letter or how you can say "all caps" and all that, this has never worked for me. Similarly I wish there was a reliable way to tell Siri if you wanted a particular number value written out or as a digit, e.g. "Five" vs. "5", but if there is I have yet to find it after 13 years of using Siri. In this example I don't think there is any way to do this, I have tried saying the 5-digit number followed by "space" and "9" and what I get is the number followed by the word "space" and the word "nine". I checked again online and read you should say "spacebar" instead of "space", but when I did this it inserted two words "space bar". I also tried "blank" and "blank space", but each time it simply writes out those words. I think figuring out how to set up a shortcut for this is probably the way to go. Alternatively, put the transit phone number in the Favourites or Pin the conversation to the top of your Messages list and then either type in the number or you could dictate it including the "9" because if you dictate a longer number it will typically get written as a number. Then you would just have to go back to the 9 and manually insert a space. You could also set up keyboard shortcuts for your most used bus stops and routes, in your example you have 50325 9 You could create a keyboard shortcut called "hbs" for "home bus stop", then enter 50325 9 as the text. When it comes to keyboard shortcuts you want to make sure you choose an abbreviation you can type easily yet it should be unique, i.e. you wouldn't want to use "home" because you don't want the number sequence to appear each time you type the word home. I have keyboard shortcuts set up for my email addresses, e.g. I use "eeb" for my business email address and "eeo" for my outlook.com email address, "eeg" is for my gmail address. Note it's a double e since I at least can't think of any words which start that way. If I type "eeo" followed by the spacebar or enter, it expands to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Peter Tesar Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2024 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Dictating to Siri? Out in the internet, there is a list of SIRI punctuation words that SIRI will translate. I have used: hae SIRI numeral numerical phrase You can try hae SIRI numeral 50325 numeral 9 SIRI is not always translating correctly. Maybe it's the voice. Maybe the dictate speed. SIRI seems to be reliable when translating these words: comma, full stop, ellipsis , quote and end quote and explanation mark. The question mark is not always translated to the correct punctuation mark. Peter T. On 2024-08-07 2:27 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Aug 7, 2024, at 11:38 AM, Mohammad Fazil <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Thank you very much, Richard. I am supposed to write a set of five digit followed by space and followed by one digit, no word. I write: 50325 9. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone On Aug 7, 2024, at 7:54 AM, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Can you include words or just the numbers. perhaps saying the individual numbers, then the word bus, then 9. You could then edit out the word bus if you cannot include words. Or say the words for the stop number then bus 9... '' Richard, USA "INTROVERTS UNITE ... SEPARATELY IN YOUR OWN HOMES" -- as seen on a T-shirt with a power fist raised My web site: https://www.turner42.com (sent from my iPhone 13 pro) On Aug 6, 2024, at 10:33 PM, Mohammad Fazil <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Hi, group. In Vancouver, Canada, I send a text message to Translink (the Bus company when I need to know what time the next bus would be at my bus stop. I have to give two pieces of information in this text message: five digit bus five digit Bus Stop Number and one or two one or two digit bus number. for instance, 50325 9. I have saved the Bus company number as Bus Stop. When I ask Siri to send a message to Bus Stop, how would I dictate the following to Siri? '50325 9'. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone -- 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]<mailto:[email protected]>. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]>. 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