Good afternoon Craig, Thank you for your kind words and I must admit to feeling rather inventive today! You should see the storm I'm stirring up on our local guide dog list!!
I know what you mean about Siri slips. Some of them can be truly imaginative! But, often, a word such as "all" is inserted instead of the word "or". This can, indeed, give an impression of bad grammar. Yet, because the two words sound similar, it is easily overlooked when reading through text. I have learnt, over time, to be quite vigilant, but, nevertheless, The odd one still gets passed me. I will say this though, if you're lucky enough to have the sort of accent that Siri is expecting to understand, its recognition can be truly amazing! I, four example, though living in Ireland, I'm originally from England and my accent is the sort of BBC one. So, plummy Daniel, understands me very well! Are used to be a power user of Bluetooth keyboards alongside my iPhone. Now, however, I rarely get them out, choosing to use Siri all the time instead. But, back to the main point, I am envisaging the potential of the dictation function with a specially adapted app, and more as being useful in the mainstream. As I said before, students, business people, doctors clinic attendees, and so on, all of these people might find it very useful. Because, in my humble opinion, if something works well for the mainstream, it will be allowed to grow and improve at an exponential rate. Then, those people who may have much greater need of it, with disabilities etc, may well find they have an excellent new tool to play with. Just my thoughts, Sandy Sent from my iPhone > On 9 Feb 2014, at 16:36, "BrianMiller" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On a related note, does anyone know what the maximum length of a memo one > can record with the built in memo recorder app on the iPhone? > > Thanks! > > Brian M > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Craig Werner > Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 10:59 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: The potential of the dictation function? > > Sandra, your post is an example of the imaginative and far-reaching messages > I enjoy reading on this list. I am so glad folks are experimenting with the > dictation option. I admit to distrusting it since it often makes errors > which users do not catch through proofreading, and this sometimes makes them > appear careless. > Nevertheless, I agree it is a very worthwhile service. Perhaps more than > any other group, It benefits those who have difficulty typing or cannot do > so at all. > > Craig > >> On 2/9/14, Sandratomkins <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi there! >> I was just playing around with my phone and I opened the notes app. >> Then, in a new note, I started off the dictation function. I then >> walked into the kitchen, where my partner was eating lunch, the radio >> was playing, and there was some ambient noise. I told him I wanted to >> carry out a small experiment with dictation and asked him to talk to >> me. We then had a short conversation. I stopped the dictation function >> and waited to see how much of the conversation my phone had picked up. >> It actually did very well, probably, digitising about 30/40% of our >> conversation. Something I noticed was that when my partner spoke the > dictation made a new paragraph For him. >> >> So, what do I conclude? I am thinking that the phone has the >> potential, under the right circumstances, to, say, digitise a whole >> lecture. I think, it would need to actually record the lecture first >> and then take its time over the digitising from spoken to text. But I >> am sure it could actually do it as things stand right now. That is, I >> think it can do it but it with me to have its own space for the > processing. >> >> Has anyone else played with this function? Perhaps, there is already >> an app to do it? I would be very interested to hear people's comments >> on this as, I think, it may have greater potential, I E, in transcribing > radio programs >> for people who at the moment can't access them due to hearing loss. 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