Wow, texting is....

[tknice]

What can I say to delete the last word? I agree it works very well but I need to know this!

 

[Dmaynard83]

I was thinking the same thing this morning. Voice text is fantastic.

I take it further and just say "hey siri text name etc etc" then "hey siri send" done and you don't even have to touch anything on the watch. Especially useful if your hands are full/dirty/wet.

 

[donster28]

Easier to do on the watch than on my iPhone . Not had it even 24 hours yet and when I'm not in a public place ( so I don't look an idiot) I'm doing almost all my texting from the watch. It's so much easier, watch taps you because somebody text you, raise arm to read, tap reply, then tap the mic, and say your response, send. All done. Most convenient when I'm doing something like eating .

Really did not expect texting would be my main use.

Do you get a delay before Siri can type your spoken words? To me, it takes about a few seconds before I see my spoken words on the screen. Am I the only one?

 

[AKRowdy]

haven't taken out my phone since i got my watch with the exception of using it to tweak watch settings and check my morning iPhone games. Amazing.

Agreed! I'm really enjoying the "freedom." I can't remember an extended period of time where my phone was outside a 1 foot radius of my person and I wasn't worried about it, until yesterday that is. Someday this Watch is going to be able to complete replace the phone without relying on it, and that will be an amazing day.

Now that we have this gizmo, I'm ready for Apple to fix TV and bring 3D printing to the masses!!

 

[bushido]

doesn't work well with German at all. every town has its own accent and words. I would spent half the time editing the text

 

[redman042]

I don't have my watch yet, but use dictation regularly on my iPhone. Accuracy and speed got noticeably better about two or three months ago. I saw posts from others saying the same. So Apple did some updating on the back end that helped.

 

[greytmom]

I also found that it was more accurate than voice to text on my phone. I added more canned responses too, which makes it even quicker!

Cool! How do you add more?

 

[Sparkeze]

I thought the ones I changed got added but there are a lot more canned responses than yesterday! I changed a few that I would never use through the watch app on the phone by just typing over the canned responses.

 

[8CoreWhore]

Well, since Siri processing is done on Apple's servers, the only way the Watch would be better than the iPhone at this would be if the mic in the Watch is better than the iPhones.

Those that say the Watch is better - which iPhone do you have?

If you have the 6, than I'd say the iPhone 6s will get a better mic like the Watch has.

If you have the 5, I wonder if the 6 is as good as the Watch's.

 

[oftheheavens]

Agreed! I'm really enjoying the "freedom." I can't remember an extended period of time where my phone was outside a 1 foot radius of my person and I wasn't worried about it, until yesterday that is. Someday this Watch is going to be able to complete replace the phone without relying on it, and that will be an amazing day.

Now that we have this gizmo, I'm ready for Apple to fix TV and bring 3D printing to the masses!!

I agree with almost all you said, but I want optimization and bug fixes across the board before they push out anything else, and I have been waiting for an ACTUAL TV from apple to put in most rooms of the house for some time now. Though, I can wait for things like the apple remote not crashing when trying to change movies or whatever.

 

[Hummingbird12]

doesn't work well with German at all. every town has its own accent and words. I would spent half the time editing the text

That's a shame. The UK has wildly differing accents and I find it works well with my regional accent as long as I'm not mumbling too much.

 

[AKRowdy]

I agree with almost all you said, but I want optimization and bug fixes across the board before they push out anything else, and I have been waiting for an ACTUAL TV from apple to put in most rooms of the house for some time now. Though, I can wait for things like the apple remote not crashing when trying to change movies or whatever.

Hahaha no I agree completely they definitely can't rest on their laurels with this watch.

I'd be thoroughly surprised (and not very interested) if apple released an actual TV set. I want a powerful set-top box to replace the cable box and horrific cable box UI

 

[MacFinnley]

doesn't work well with German at all. every town has its own accent and words. I would spent half the time editing the text

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