Comments on: Some Tips For Siri And iPhone 4S Dictation

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:04:00 +0000

Thanks for all that. Very useful. One thing I can’t figure out, though, is how to write the word ‘comma’ or ‘period’ (or any other punctuation or command). If I want to say, “That needs a comma” then I get “That needs a,”. Saying “A long period of time” results in “A long. Of time”. With the command function, I said “NOTE Note that this is very important” but I just got “This is very important”. Do you know a way around this? Thanks again. 🙂

By: Kip Beatty

Kip Beatty — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:49:00 +0000

This is a great list. I’ve become more and more addicted to using Siri, and this is tremendously helpful. Thanks for taking the time to compile it.

By: xstitchnan

xstitchnan — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:42:00 +0000

Thanks for this info!!! Exactly what I was looking for!

By: Horst

Horst — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:12:46 +0000

I have a German accent and Siri mis-spells my english all the time. Is Siri not for me? Or can it be tweaked?

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:14:07 +0000

Whenever I try to Say cap something or caps off something it just types it in for me, so like “I love cap Grace.” it types out everything I say …

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:21:44 +0000

This doesn’t work with Mountain Lion’s Dictation

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:46:06 +0000

Case in point!

I dictated that post above (thanks to many of you for tips) and it misspelled my own name as “then” in the middle of the post.

Ideas? Thanks!

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:43:01 +0000

Hi,

Does anyone else have trouble getting Siri to recognize and spell your name appropriately when dictating? She knows my name, so that’s not the issue, but then sounds an awful lot like then, them, been, Dan…

So, when I want to sign an email

Sincerely,
Ben

… I have to go back and change the spelling of my name every single time. Thoughts, anyone?

By: Nets

Nets — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:37:03 +0000

In reply to tracey. No, it really does work— just not with emojis! For instance, say "smiley face" and you'll get :-)

By: Ashrakay

Ashrakay — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:06:27 +0000

Does anyone know how to get dates to insert. E.g., saying the 7th of April is writing “the seventh of April”? Thanks.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:11:59 +0000

In reply to Christopher.

Also, times work for this too.

“Five colon thirty” becomes 5:30
and
“Five thirty PM” becomes 5:30 PM

Kind of random, but useful nonetheless.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:07:18 +0000

Just to note, the dictation can also be used for “plus sign”, “minus sign”, “multiplication sign” and “division sign”. I don’t think this works for anything besides basic math functions.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:21:36 +0000

How do I get Siri to spell out words that are punctuation. For instance, if I want the word quotation she gives me” if I want the word “period”, she gives me the punctuation mark so how do I get around that?

By: tracey

tracey — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:06:10 +0000

In reply to DK. me thinks you are having a laugh!!! winky especially did not work, just caused lots of hilarity. exclaimation mark.

By: David

David — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:22:47 +0000

In reply to Mike Scarcella. To dictate numbers, use Numeral. For instance the number 7, say 'Numeral 7' and for 2012, say 'Numeral twenty twelve'.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:26:14 +0000

In reply to BrianPatrick. I'm pretty sure you can say 'dot dot dot' as well.

By: paul martin

paul martin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:12:45 +0000

I need help with Siri dictation I talk into the mic but nothing happens how do I fix this. I tried going through the setting but can’t find anything that helps. Can anyone help with this.

By: Dan the IT Man

Dan the IT Man — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:09:44 +0000

In reply to Katie. say "Open parenthesis" and close.

By: Mike Scarcella

Mike Scarcella — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:39:11 +0000

How do I mak siri recognize numbers. When she

hears number 7 she writes number seven instead of

7. Thanks

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:08:09 +0000

In reply to Art. Just do it. A good percentage of the time it will interpret it correctly

By: Joe Tomasone

Joe Tomasone — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:32:18 +0000

You have to remember that these tips are not intended for Siri herself – but for when you dictate text into an email or other document with the microphone icon. “Open Parenthesis” and “Close Parenthesis” work just fine when dictated into an email, for example.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:12:49 +0000

what about a ( or a )? everytime I ask her to put one in, she spells out the word instead. Ideas?

By: David

David — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:16:46 +0000

I have the iPhone 4s and tried my first email dictation today. Being new at this, I did not know how to end the sentence with a period, or start a new line, do caps for names, etc. This post has saved the day. Thank you for providing a very useful listing of common dictation commands for when using the dictation feature. Thanks again! Next I need to explore using Siri. This is my first iPhone, and I am very pleased so far.

By: DK

DK — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:08:28 +0000

You can also say “smiley” for 🙂 and “winky” for 😉

By: Art

Art — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:02:00 +0000

So how do I get Siri to NOT translate a word into punctuation, such as in “I scored a goal in the third period of the hockey game”?