Hi Chermeen, I know this doesn't necessarily help, but I am also in Canada (in BC) and SIRI is working fine for me with respect to setting timers or alarms. It actually seems that these simple things work almost all the time where I do sometimes have a problem with dialing numbers or dictation. Here I have been getting a fair amount of "Sorry, I can't do that right now" or similar. What I also have been getting and that is a new one is that I ask to dial somebody's phone number who is in my contacts, SIRI will say "Calling so and so" and then it will almost immediately say "Sorry, I can't make that call for you". Quite often when I get the "Sorry I can't do that right now" message I just try it again right away and it works, in a few cases it doesn't and I have to do things the old fashion way.
Where in Canada are you? Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shermeen Khan Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 7:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Siri's performance in IOS7 Well, I'll add in my $.02, as i'm checking e-mail anyway and often feel I need to jump in LOL. I, too, have been experiencing problems with siri's responsiveness. I am quite the loose-leaf tea addict, so have to set fairly specific timers for my tea to brew. When using IOS6, I could simply say "siri, please set my timer for four minutes and thirty seconds" and she would do it instantly. ever since upgrading, I'll ask siri to perform the same task (politely of course, because I'm a Canadian and that's how we roll), and then i'm usually met by a stoney silence. I follow that up by frantically swiping around the screen, and after a bit more silence, will hear things like "things you can tell me. Ask "Where's Brian?" and not only do I not know Brian, I honestly couldn't give two flying you know what's about where he is at the moment. While this very uninspiring exchange is taking place between siri and myself, my tea is sitting there steeping confusedly, and then I just manually set a timer and try to account for the fight I just had with siri. What gives? Shermeen On 9/30/13, Rose Combs <[email protected]> wrote: > My coworker and driver got a 5C Saturday, Siri was very responsive > compared to my 4S. It did have to think a couple of times when she > asked it a question, or used an unacceptable word after it told her it > could not add a contact to her address book. > > It was amazing even my Husband's 5 seems slower than her phone but > then she has no apps but the ones supplied, only had it less than 24 > hours and had no clue about apps. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Ricardo Walker > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 10:25 PM > To: viphone > Subject: Re: Siri's performance in IOS7 > > Hi, > > This isn't true 100% of the time. If I tell Siri "Tell Mary I will > give her a call in an hour." At least for me, most of the time the > message is read back. The times when it isn't, its because VO > interrupts it for some reason. In this case, I place my finger on the > screen, and flick to the edit field and VO reads the message. I find > the error rate to be on par with that found in IOS 6, Maybe a little > bit better. But that isn't were Siri is really giving people a lot of > headaches though. Its Siri actually processing your requests. This > failure rate is way up in IOS 7. I would say its near the levels when > it made its debut on the iPhone 4S. > > Ricardo Walker > [email protected] > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Sep 28, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For those of you using Siri and iOS 7, here are a few questions > specifically related to dictation. >> I understand that Siri no longer reads back the text it has inserted >> when > you do dictation. How then do you efficiently understand whether the > text that has been inserted is correct? In iOS 6, this is easy because > Siri reads it back. >> I have found that the error rate is very good in iOS 6. So most of >> the > time, I don't have to hunt for anything to correct it, making the read > back by far the most efficient means of knowing if my text is okay. >> So, how is the error rate in iOS 7 compared with that of iOS 6? It >> seems > that there are varying reports on this topic. I use dictation a lot, > such as in this message. And I will not upgrade if the ability to use > it to write longer messages is seriously degraded. Yet one more reason > to wait. >> Mary >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Sep 28, 2013, at 11:03 AM, "Jerry White" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I have noticed the same thing. I live in North Carolina, USA, and >>> have thought that SIRI has taken a step back in response. I love >>> the automatically listening for a response after SIRI asks a >>> question, but the time between asking a question and getting a >>> response is > sometimes large. >>> >>> Also, when using dictate in messaging, I sometimes have to move >>> focus away from the message pane and back to get the text read. >>> >>> Thanks for letting me know I'm not crazy, well, not this time, anyway! > LOL! >>> Jerry >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >>> Behalf Of Carol Pearson >>> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 11:45 AM >>> To: VI Phone Users >>> Subject: Siri's performance in IOS7 >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm wondering if Siri's performance differs between various >>> countries, or even within the same. >>> >>> We have noted an increased speed and performance when it comes to >>> asking Siri a question but it seems that dictation has taken quite a >>> step backwards for myself and other friends with whom I've spoken >>> here in > the UK. >>> >>> First, the time between dictating and text appearing at my end is >>> definitely much slower and is also less accurate. In addition I'm >>> sometimes not sure if dictated text has been processed because of >>> the lack of speech from Siri who doesn't read aloud text as >>> processed or even > say "Done". >>> >>> Have you noticed these things, do you know why we should experience >>> these difficulties and do you agree that this should be reported to > Apple? >>> >>> >>> Carol P >>> Sent from my iPhone using MBraille >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> >>> Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. >>> >>> Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>> >>> Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing >>> [email protected]. >>> >>> Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing >>> [email protected]. >>> >>> More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> --- >>> 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]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. >>> >>> Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. >>> >>> Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>> >>> Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. >>> >>> Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. >>> >>> More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> --- >>> 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]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. >> >> Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. >> >> Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> >> Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. >> >> Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. >> >> More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> 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]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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