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3G S Voice Commands - The complete list
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Surely you mean to say English accent, if you're making a distinction between the iPhone lady's accent and your own? 'British accent' is quite a meaningless phrase that you tend to hear Americans say, when what they really mean is 'English accent'.
Just a little bugbear of mine
Surely you mean to say English accent, if you're making a distinction between the iPhone lady's accent and your own? 'British accent' is quite a meaningless phrase that you tend to hear Americans say, when what they really mean is 'English accent'.
Just a little bugbear of mine
Perhaps if he tried a Welsh accent?
"play artist Andrea boccelli"
iPhone: "self destruct initiated"
Surely you mean to say English accent, if you're making a distinction between the iPhone lady's accent and your own? 'British accent' is quite a meaningless phrase that you tend to hear Americans say, when what they really mean is 'English accent'.
Just a little bugbear of mine
actually no, I did indeed mean to use British specifically. The English accent to me refers to someone in England. I referred to 'British' initially to include the UK as a whole.
But I kind of know what you mean - I hate it when folk from the US refer to the UK as England.
Works fine for me when I plug in regular headphones with no mic.
Does anyone know exactly when you can issue a "no", "wrong", etc. command? Does it only work when asking it (accidentally or not) to make a call? I haven't been able to get it to cancel any commands involving playing music.
If You jailbreak your 3GS, the complete list of commandos is available here:
/system/library/voiceservices/plugins
3 plugin folders with a couple of plist-files.
Here is a sample of all german commandos available when using the iPod application: http://tinyurl.com/n5f9vb
/system/library/voiceservices/plugins
3 plugin folders with a couple of plist-files.
Here is a sample of all german commandos available when using the iPod application: http://tinyurl.com/n5f9vb
Is it possible for us Brits to say the preferable 'ring' rather than 'call'? I stumbled across this image on http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2009/06/24/review-iphone-3gs/ when looking for iPhone reviews. As you can see, it clearly says ring in the background. I would test this out myself but I or anyone else I know doesn't have an iPhone.
That's because ringing is something that happens at the other end whereas calling is what you are doing.
You see skynet is not yet to the point where it can distinguish the fact that by saying 'ring mike mobile' you are in fact telling skynet to 'make mike's mobile ring'
therefore it needs proper english
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I tried "Ring [my girlfriend's name]" and it ended up playing this in response.
Stopped the playback, got Voice Control back and just said "Ring." iPod started playing again, right where it left off.
So, guess not?
Maybe it needs to be on a British carrier (realizing it's a "Brit iPhone") for the command to work. I'm in the US on AT&T.
I believe they call those "phone calls."
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I tried "Ring [my girlfriend's name]" and it ended up playing this in response.
Stopped the playback, got Voice Control back and just said "Ring." iPod started playing again, right where it left off.
So, guess not?
Maybe it needs to be on a British carrier (realizing it's a "Brit iPhone") for the command to work. I'm in the US on AT&T.
I believe they call those "phone calls."
In the "general>international>voice control" settings you can choose either UK english or US english, this may have an effect.
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This works here in Canada on Rogers Wireless:
I set up "Time" in my contacts, with this phone number: *Time. ( *8463 )
So, "Call Time" gets me the time. Every time.
And you don't even have to go that far. If you add Wife to her original contact as her nickname, it'll call her with just one contact.
Sometimes the results can be awkward -
I was showing my wife the nicknames part of VC, so she took the phone and said "Call Mistress."
"Multiple Results"
Even more disturbing was that one of them was my grandma.
Ahhhhhh
Ah nice, good to see the list of things the iphone doesn't understand when you say them
I find the iphone voice control to be more or less, roughly, basically IDENTICAL to every other voice command capability on a phone. In other words... useless.
I say "Play Nirvana" and it says "Playing playlist 'Medium'".
I say "Call home" and it says "Calling John".
Etc. etc.
Maybe some day technology will advance to the point that voice dialing and voice commands will work for the majority of people, but by that time the majority of people will have tired of how often the technology has failed in the past and going into the future voice commands will simply be ignored all around.
Ah nice, good to see the list of things the iphone doesn't understand when you say them
I find the iphone voice control to be more or less, roughly, basically IDENTICAL to every other voice command capability on a phone. In other words... useless.
I say "Play Nirvana" and it says "Playing playlist 'Medium'".
I say "Call home" and it says "Calling John".
Etc. etc.
Maybe some day technology will advance to the point that voice dialing and voice commands will work for the majority of people, but by that time the majority of people will have tired of how often the technology has failed in the past and going into the future voice commands will simply be ignored all around.
It would probably work better if you said play artist nirvana... Doesn't appear that I can help you with the home thing, I assume that you have a contact called or nicknamed home.
They really need to fix the way it repeats some artists back. I'll tell it "play artist Kanye West". It repeats back "Playing songs by 'can-I West". That shows that Apple is lazy, and racist
Perhaps you need to learn how to say "Kanye" properly?
Perhaps you need to learn how to read my post properly?
I say "Kanye" just fine. How would me saying it wrong cause it to say it wrong? I'll answer that: it won't.
How does a computer mispronouncing a name make Apple lazy or racist?
Surely you don't expect a computer to be able to pronounce every name correctly, especially uncommon names or names with uncommon spellings.
I'm just joking. I was just saying that they should fix it. Calm down, Mr. Jefferson