Showing posts with label iphone tutorial; tutorial; siri. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iphone tutorial; tutorial; siri. Show all posts

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Accessing SIRI

Accessing Siri

There  are two ways to access Siri.

  • Press and hold the home button till you get "What Can I help you with" and a icon that looks like the image below:
  • Inside an app click the microphone beside the keyboard:

  • When you tap the microphone you will get a screen that looks like this:


  • Simply talk and you will see the microphone light up. This will indicate that SIRI is listening.
Here are some basics that SIRI can Help you with:
Here is a link for some funny things you can get SIRI to say:
http://www.sirifunny.com/


You can also do RAISE to speak which means anytime you put your iphone to your ear Siri will come up. To do this go into Settings-General-Siri and toggle the switch on for Raise to Speak.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Setting Up SIRI

Setting up SIRI

Siri is the voice application service. Per Apple's website this is what you CAN do:
http://www.apple.com/ios/siri/siri-faq/
"Siri works with almost all your built-in apps. And it’s smart enough to figure out which apps to use to provide you with answers. It also uses Search and Location Services to help you with your requests. Here’s a list of apps and services that Siri works with worldwide:"

  • Maps

  • Sports

  • Movies

  • Local Search

  • Post on Facebook

  • FaceTime

  • Phone

  • Mail

  • Web Search

  • Send a Tweet

  • App Launch

  • Find My Friends

  • Music

  • Messages

  • Calendar

  • Reminders

  • Notes

  • Contacts

  • Weather

  • Stocks

  • Wikipedia search

  • Alarms, World Clock and Timer
Setting up Siri
Siri can be set up two ways the first and most common is when you go thru the setup it will ask you to Use Siri or Don't Use Siri. The other way is:
  • Go to Settings
  • Go To General
  • Go to Siri
  • Turn Siri On.