Hi Vincent My Lord I'm sorry, I haven't been able to visit the list for a bit. When you enter the apps store or itunes AND are searching for items, you can dictate what you want to search for WITH SIRI and won't necessarily have to type it in. It's also possible to edit SIRI entries, if they are not quite correct. You can set reminders and calendar entries, but I've not done enough of these to give a categorical opinion on them, and I don't think you can cancel these settings (open to contradiction here). You can even control many things in your music playlist with SIRI. You can ask it to play songs, skip tracks, or to stop playing the music altogether. It is extremely useful in terms of makingphone calls or looking for contact information. You can ask SIRI to "call joe bloggs" and if this name is in your contacts list, it will find it and phone the number. If there are 2 numbers for the person, you will be asked "which number" then you just speak in the number you want to call or choose it on screen. You can also ask SIRI a certain amount of general knowledge questions and mathematical calculations, equivalent times in other countries etc. It even has been known to have a sense of humour!! It is important to say however that you still can't talk your way around the entire phone. There are still areas i.e. scrolling through your apps etc. for which you will need to use your fingers. SIRI is excellent, but as yet cannot be said to be an alternative to navigating the screen with voice-over. Hope this helps. Emer (another unashamed IPhone convert! Emer Mulhall Ict Unit Department of Environment newtown Road Wexford Phone: 053-9117412 From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vincent stack Sent: 30 January 2012 11:23 To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vicsireland] Re: ifone 4s and Siri many thanks brian. regards Vincent From: Brian Butler<mailto:petra@xxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 9:59 AM To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [vicsireland] Re: ifone 4s and Siri Hi Vincent, As far as I understand it just pauses the message and when you are ready to speak again you double tap to continue. You can do this several times if you are dictating a long message and wish to break it up into several parts. Brian. ----- Original Message ----- From: Vincent stack<mailto:vts@xxxxxxxxxx> To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 1:10 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: ifone 4s and Siri hello brian ok makes sense but what does the double tapping do. does it jump to another line or paragraph or something. thanks for the feed back anyhow. regards Vincent From: Brian Butler<mailto:petra@xxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 12:11 PM To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [vicsireland] Re: ifone 4s and Siri Hi Vincent, I do not have a 4s , but my daughter Clair, who is visually impaired, uses Siri when texting all the time. When writing long texts or e-mails, during the dictation of a message she does a double tap of her two fingers to hold the message before continuing. Thus she can break a long message into several parts. When working like this and speaking clearly she has very little editing to do on long messages afterwards. I hope this makes sense. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: Vincent stack<mailto:vts@xxxxxxxxxx> To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:13 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: ifone 4s and Siri thanks emer. does this allow me to access all the menus to. basically can i speak my way through the whole phone. sorry for all the stupid questions. many thanks. regards Vincent From: Emer Mulhall - (DECLG)<mailto:Emer.Mulhall@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 11:00 AM To: 'vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'<mailto:'vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'> Subject: [vicsireland] Re: ifone 4s and Siri Hi Vincent Siri is reasonably accurate if you speak clearly and not too fast. I tend to use it for short texts, and type in the longer ones on the touch-screen. I'm also getting a bluetooth keyboard to help with that. I wouldn't trust SIRI for longer texts, but maybe that's just a personal thing! And the fact that you can edit the texts obviously means you can fix any errors SIRI has made. I'm still a bit new to all this myself though. Emer Emer Mulhall Ict Unit Department of Environment newtown Road Wexford Phone: 053-9117412 From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sabrina McKiernan Sent: 26 January 2012 17:13 To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vicsireland] Re: ifone 4s and Siri Hi Vincent, I have not tried predictive text, but with regards dictation, it is fairly accurate I have found. There have been times alright whenI have had to do some minor editing before sending but generally-speaking it is pretty-good! Given the fact that this is the first phone with Siri included it is great! There are a couple of Siri demos around the place alright ... one from Stuart Lawler and another one from Jonathon Mosen. I hope this helps Vincent. Sabrina From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vincent stack Sent: 26 January 2012 16:25 To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vicsireland] Re: ifone 4s and Siri hey Sabrina thanks for the response. how accurate is this predictive text. is there accent barriers with this. has it given you any trouble at all. i only sold an ifone 4 because i didn't have the patients for it but this ifone that you can tell what to do sounds more appealing to me. especially since most of the phones in the shops are touch screen. many thanks. regards Vincent From: Sabrina McKiernan<mailto:sabmckiernan@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:13 AM To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [vicsireland] Re: ifone 4s and Siri Hi Vincent, Yep in texts you can use the "dictate option! Siri is great too! Sabrina From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vincent stack Sent: 25 January 2012 22:10 To: vics ireland Cc: vip students Subject: [vicsireland] ifone 4s and Siri hello folks has anyone gotten an ifone 4s. did anyone give some reviews of it. how do people find it for texting. and so on? is it true we can speak or texts to the phone and it will write them for us. all advice welcome. many thanks. regards Vincent ________________________________ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter<http://www.spamfighter.com/len>. SPAMfighter has removed 1147 of my spam emails to date. Do you have a slow PC?<http://www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter?cid=sigen> Try free scan! ________________________________ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter<http://www.spamfighter.com/len>. SPAMfighter has removed 1149 of my spam emails to date. 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