[macvoiceover] Re: iphone 4s
- From: Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:32:51 -0600
What amount of data does Siri use? If Siri turns out to be wonderfully helpful,
do I need to look at getting a whacking big data plan when I next upgrade?
Ian
On 2012-03-26, at 11:27 AM, Marcy Weinberg wrote:
> I find siri to work fine with the dictation button most of the time, except
> when the server is busy or down.
>
> I also find that it is better to dictate partially when the text is long,
> then put a space and continue dictating in parts until the whole dictation is
> in. I will say, though, that when siri is working to its fullest, a fairly
> long passage can be dictated and siri will get the whole thing perfectly!
>
> Marcy
>
> On Mar 26, 2012, at 12:39 PM, 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Marcy
> Hope you're having a nice day!
>
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