I find it useful to always start by saying Hello siri". That seems to "wake" her up. Or, "are you there, siri?" After that, the program seems to respond much more promptly.
Anisio Correia Atlanta, Georgia Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 18, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Carol Pearson <carol.pearso...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Robin, > > Thanks for your comments. I appreciate them. However, I am actually talking > about when dictating and not when I'm asking Siri questions and to do things > and usually find this happens when first dictating. After that, everything > often seems okay. It's so annoying! I don't quite know whether to report this > as a bug or whether I'm just being too particular, but I just don't like it! > > Anyone got any more thoughts about what to do? I do find that there has been > some improvement on how well Siri is working now, because at first that was > not good either. > > Carol P > Sent from my iPhone using MBraille > > On 18 Oct 2013, at 03:21 pm, "Robin Christopherson" > <robin.christopher...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Carol > Whenever Siri doesn’t answer straight away I’ve learned not to wait and I > know that, if he (in the UK Siri’s a he) doesn’t respond instantly then nine > times out of ten he won’t respond at all. So I don’t waste time and I just > reissue the command and chances are he’ll come right back. I literally wait > no more than two seconds before reissuing. > I’m not sure why it’s an all or nothing thing like this but I have found it a > really useful strategy as I used to slavishly wait for a response and, as I > say, nine times out of ten was disappointed because you’d wait ten or fifteen > seconds only for him to apologise profusely about being unavailable. > Thanks, Robin. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
