Thanks Brian, I haven't used Dragon Dictation for a few months, sounds like Apple came up with their own solution. I'm waiting for my contract to be up in August before I upgrade to a 4S. My guess is that Siri will be as fast and accurate as typing is for sighted people who don't worry about correcting the typos they make with the on-screen keyboard, which is good enough for maybe 90% of the texts you send. Cheers, Ian On 2012-03-26, at 10:49 AM, Bryan Duarte wrote: > I do not want to be mean or discourage anyone from a tool they use or found > useful so I will simply speak from my own perspective. The dragon app is free > and it does work, but Siri is 100 times better than dragon ever could be for > the iPhone. Also Siri is integrated into every edit field of the iPhone. From > messages to email Siri will give you the option to dictate your message. It > works and is accurate but the down side is that there will be times where you > will have to correct your spelling if Siri enters "brain" instead of "Bryan." > Avoiding the keyboard is impossible on a touch screen device. I will also say > that Siri gives you the option to create, edit, and send a message or email > but unless there is no background noise and you can speak clear enough to get > every word clearly heard, edits from the keyboard will be necessary. > On Mar 26, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Ian Edwards wrote: > >> You may want to check out the Dragon dictation app. When I checked it out it >> was free, and sometimes useful. It was accurate enough for simple messages >> and Facebook posts, the obvious downside was that it wasn't integrated into >> the message program. So you would dicatate your message, select text message >> in the actions menu, then select who it was going to. From the support >> material it looks like the Blackberry version is integrated into the message >> app so you can dictate directly into an edit field, so perhaps that is >> coming for the iPhone version. Maybe it's already here, anyone know? >> >> Ian >> >> On 2012-03-26, at 10:30 AM, Bryan Duarte wrote: >> >>> I agree with Ricardo Siri is great for some things but for avoiding typing >>> Siri is not! Checking things, searching the web, and having fun Siri is >>> great, sending messages or emails Siri works perfectly about 50 percent of >>> the time. There is really no avoiding the on screen keyboard on a touch >>> screen device. I admit the touch keyboard is kind of a pain some times it >>> really is not as bad as most blind people would think. It is pretty good >>> and not very hard to type on. If a keyboard is necessary for you, the >>> iPhone is not for you... >>> On Mar 26, 2012, at 5:41 AM, Mary Scott wrote: >>> >>>> I am very interested to hear updates as to your satisfaction of the hone. >>>> I want one but I want to know if Siri >>>> really works well. I do not like usuing the keys to text and I want to >>>> know that I really can avoid it before getting one. MelOn Mar 25, 2012, >>>> at 10:11 PM, Bryan Duarte wrote: >>>> >>>>> Awesome welcome to the crew! If you go to settings>general>accessibility >>>>> you will find an option to enable practice mode. If you do this you can >>>>> preform all the gesters and hear them spoken to you. Also if you navigate >>>>> to settings>general>accessibility the last option in this list is the >>>>> home button function for triple tap.. This is where you will set >>>>> voiceover to be assigned to triple tap of the home button. Hope this >>>>> helps... >>>>> On Mar 25, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Don wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> Just got an iphohne, can someone tell me where to find all the >>>>>> gestures, or send me a list of them. Also where do I go to set the home >>>>>> button to turn on and off voice over, I can't find it. Thanks Don >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >