Extensive List of Siri's Dictation Commands for iPhone 4S

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Still expirementing with Siri... Loving it so far. Better than dragon dictation for messages, hands down.

If you say 'I'm being sarcastic' will it come up with:

I'm sure Siri has got a dark sense of humour - On my own I can chat away for ages with it understanding everything I say with such accuracy it's incredible. However, as soon as I try to demo it to anyone like my wife or an Android owner, you can bet that all I'll get from it is "I'm sorry Neil, I don't understand 'spleen longboat curry'"

NightFox said:

I'm sure Siri has got a dark sense of humour - On my own I can chat away for ages with it understanding everything I say with such accuracy it's incredible. However, as soon as I try to demo it to anyone like my wife or an Android owner, you can bet that all I'll get from it is "I'm sorry Neil, I don't understand 'spleen longboat curry'"

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I found that too, but then I realised that when demoing Siri, I would change the tone of my voice. When I am using it privately I use a more natural voice.

It is weird trying to force myself to talk to it naturally when other people are around!

I guess I can see why so many people are excited about this. Personally, though, I don't see myself using the speech-to-text feature very often (if at all) because it drives me crazy that it fails to include punctuation. I'm way too OCD about periods and commas.

Personally I'm just sat being told there's no network connection at the minute

Caliber26 said:

I guess I can see why so many people are excited about this. Personally, though, I don't see myself using the speech-to-text feature very often (if at all) because it drives me crazy that it fails to include punctuation. I'm way too OCD about periods and commas.

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I'm the same exact way. But you can use the words "comma", "period", "question mark" etc. and it will listen!!!!

essrow said:

I'm the same exact way. But you can use the words "comma", "period", "question mark" etc. and it will listen!!!!

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You get used to it (provided you know the basics of punctuation). When I read a badly written sentence, I can always hear the commas in my head. Most adults can't use punctuation correctly or differentiate between there, they're, or their. Don't they teach how to read and write in schools in the US?

At least in Germany, we have an excuse; they changed the spelling rules a couple of times within 10 years or so. Some teachers write the very old way, some insist on an already outdated version of the "new" orthography, some go back and forth depending on their mood. Every year you get a new teacher and are required to write differently. And in primary schools, they now teach kids to write as they hear it. Then they have to forget all that and learn the right way in 4th grade.
It's a total mess, even newspapers are not spelling right at all. I wonder how correct the German Siri will spell out words. The Mac dictionary was pretty modern so far.

So these are 'reserved words'- how would you 'escape' them so they appear as words in their own right i.e., "i have to dash now"?

Stella said:

So these are 'reserved words'- how would you 'escape' them so they appear as words in their own right i.e., "i have to dash now"?

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Interesting problem! I have tried different ways to get round this. No luck so far...

I am in the UK but I my english is american and not british. I cannot use the "period" command but have to use "full stop". It's quite annoying. I have set the language in the settings under Siri to US English but it still doesn't work.
Does anyone know how I can change that?

saying "Cap word" gives you Word.

Also, quote cap word closed quote = "Word"

Awesome, I figured out Smiley face on my own. But it is good to know all of the other ones!

This whole thing feels exactly like trying to convince people to write college papers directly on the computer instead of handwriting it on a notepad and "typing" it on the computer. It's going to take a bit for people to get used to "talking" their thoughts, but when they do, they won't go back.

The future of txtspk

I wonder, will txtspk disappear?

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This is all caps awesome new paragraph I'm really liking Siri so far exclamation point!!

MrCrowbar said:

Most adults can't use punctuation correctly or differentiate between there, they're, or their.

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Can Siri tell the difference?:
"There." (in reply to a request, "Can I have a sammich?")
"Their's." (in reply to a text, "Is it our's or their's?")
"They're." (in reply to a text, "Are they going to the concert?")

Also, those ascii smiley faces are dead awful. This isn't the 90s anymore!

RobDee said:

I wonder, will txtspk disappear?

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Soon people will forget how to talk normally....
"Hey comma do you want to the concert this weekend question mark"
"Sure exclamation point I'm not sure if I have enough money comma though dot dot dot" (speaking of which, does "dot dot dot" work? Or do you have to say ellipses? Or can you only say "period period period"?)

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Stella said:

So these are 'reserved words'- how would you 'escape' them so they appear as words in their own right i.e., "i have to dash now"?

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Can't figure out a way around this yet, despite my efforts.

pensoftware said:

Can Siri tell the difference?:
"There." (in reply to a request, "Can I have a sammich?")
"Their's." (in reply to a text, "Is it our's or their's?")
"They're." (in reply to a text, "Are they going to the concert?")

Also, those ascii smiley faces are dead awful. This isn't the 90s anymore!



Soon people will forget how to talk normally....
"Hey comma do you want to the concert this weekend question mark"
"Sure exclamation point I'm not sure if I have enough money comma though dot dot dot" (speaking of which, does "dot dot dot" work? Or do you have to say ellipses? Or can you only say "period period period"?)

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Dot dot dot works. Results in ...

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I'm dictating this message right now. I have to admit it's pretty good. I do wish I can figure out how to do escape characters and words though. Also if I talk too quickly, I find it has trouble figuring out where I have one word end and another word begin, for hilarious phonetic results.

Post if you like

I've had the 4S for one day and used Siri for a lot of task and text diction.

I made a site for Siri. I figured everyone could post their Siri answers on there. Still working process but I already got couple of post.

humblesiri.us

I know this is kind of off topic... but does anyone know for a fact why Apple didn't make Siri compatible with the iPhone 4? It doesn't make sense to me, considering that the 4 and the 4S both contain 512MB of RAM. Is it purely because of the A5 processor in the 4S?

anberlinairlift said:

I know this is kind of off topic... but does anyone know for a fact why Apple didn't make Siri compatible with the iPhone 4? It doesn't make sense to me, considering that the 4 and the 4S both contain 512MB of RAM. Is it purely because of the A5 processor in the 4S?

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I heard that there could have also been licensing issues to get them on the iPhone 4.

One thing that I noticed is missing from the list that I found out about because I use it a LOT (probably far more than I should... ) and that's ellipsis- say, "I shouldn't use so many of these ellipsis" and Siri will 'type' "I shouldn't use so many of these..."

One thing I haven't figured out yet- how to make Siri NOT interpret those commands (like 'period') as the punctuation symbol and use the word itself. For example, I don't know how I could have composed this using Siri because every time I'd say 'ellipsis' it would replace it with '...'