🍎 What is Siri… In short, Siri is a built-in feature of Apple’s iOS7, simply a voice-controlled personal assistant built into Your iPhone. Apple’s notion is to offer You a seamless, easy way of interacting directly with your iPhone and iPad without having to tap, tap, tap, or type, type, type on the touchscreen to find or do what you want.
🍎 Talk to Siri Instead. Simply PRESS the HOME for 2 Seconds, while your iPhone is "sleeping" (or while on any screen). Siri wakes-up and comes back to you, with a verbal and visual displays "What can I help you with." When you speak to Siri, Siri speaks back to you. You may ask Siri questions, for which Siri looks for answers, or you may tell Siri to do things, that may require several steps on your behalf, more or less, hands-free.
🍎 You can Speak to Siri in your regular, casual language without your need for to memorize and use any special computerized key words. Speak to Siri in your own casual words and Siri will figure it out, just as if you were speaking to your (human) personal assistant. There is no limit on how many times You and Siri can go back and forth looking for a solution to whatever you are talking with Siri about.
🍎 Here is a simple but effective Siri example, for Booking a New Appointment with anyone in your Contacts. At Left are actual iPhone screen-images as I booked an appointment with Jim Wilson, using Siri
✔ Press and Hold the HOME Button for a Second or two
✔ When the Siri Chime is heard, say
✔ "Siri Make an Appointment with Jim Wilson for Monday Morning at 11am"
✔ Siri will Say back to you and display the eMail Addresses that are in my Address book for Jim Wilson, because
✔ Siri wants to use the correct email address for the proper contact
✔ You simply touch on the list, or speak the desired email address, in order to select the correct contact
✔ Siri then speaks back to you setting up the appointment at the desired day and time ✔ Siri also displays the Appointment for you to Confirm or Cancel
✔ If you Confirm the Appointment, then Siri confirms back to you that the Appointment is Booked into your Calendar
✔ If you don’t like anything about the appointment, you can cancel it, or amend it by speaking back to Siri
✔ If for example you already had a 9:30am appointment for Monday morning, Siri would notice this conflict, and speak back to you
✔ Siri would ask a question like, "you already have an appointment at 9:45 am, shall I schedule it anyway"
✔ Siri then Confirms back to you, if you’d like it scheduled anyway or Cancel it
✔ You could tell Siri to find another available time Monday Morning
✔ Siri would then schedule the appointment in an open time slot Monday morning
✔ If there are no open times for Monday Morning, Siri would tell you
✔ Siri and You can go back and forth until an acceptable day and time is chosen by you.
🍎 In many ways, Siri is an App that is build seamlessly within iOS7 that can be "Called Up" with the touch of the Home button. It has access to just about every other built-in application on your iPhone, namely Mail, Contacts, Messages, Maps, Safari… and may call upon these Apps to present data or search through their databases whenever requested to do so. The advantage to you, is Siri does all the "leg work" for you, thus you can carry out a single task with a single App (the Siri App), otherwise you would need to open multiple Apps in order to achieve your Request.
🍎 While this sounds all very well and good, there are a couple of practical issues which the Apple Engineers developers had to solve, in order for it to work properly. The first issue is that the voice recognition software needs to be very effective in understanding your verbalization of needs and desires. Siri is of little use if Siri can’t understand what you’ve said. Fortunately, that appears to have been solved. The second issue, and a more subtle issue, is that you don’t want to have to Change the way you Speak, in order to get your meaning across to Siri.
🍎 Siri needs to understand commonly spoken language, rather than the user having to memorize a list of Key Words. This is an area where Siri excels. You may talk to Siri like you are speaking with a person. Siri will understand what you say, and what you meant, when you said it. Simply Press and hold the home key for 2 seconds, Siri comes to your call, and away you go. You can actually have fun trying to determine just how complex a task Siri can perform. And once you have all the Fun experimenting…
🍎 Siri is clearly a terrific and shockingly easy method of doing things for you. Its a shame few people really understand how simple Siri is to use. This was my motivation in writing this Article. There is a well produced, brief Video showing you 50 reasons to give Siri your attention. It will make your iPhone and iPad much more a personal tool for you.
🍎 Why folks wear out their thumbs TEXTing, when you could simply get to Siri, and SAY, "Text message Jim Wilson, Ask him when he’d like to go to lunch…" And Siri looks up Jim Wilson’s Phone number to TEXT, then types the message for Jim for you…
🍎 Learn To Use Siri: Here are 50 Examples of Siri Voice Commands. This short video is very effective in giving you notions on how simple a request may be made, or the complexity that Siri may function in actually Opening Apps and following instructions and commands.
http://iphonefreakz.com/2013/12/07/learn-to-use-siri-50-siri-voice-commands-video/
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