Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.mobile.ipad,comp.mobile.android,alt.os.linux Subject: Re: dictation without internet? Date: 16 Sep 2016 01:14:58 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <1bab9885-cce0-86dd-c5bf-aa5ec4129cce@arnowelzel.de> X-Trace: individual.net m8Cy+F+CPebGCPWRWWHc6QM8xLNA2cHlXNqJZVh5y3ht2OQYjX Cancel-Lock: sha1:/5z7TZdEqwUc3xrfF3P2Zn3PA+U= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:58705 comp.mobile.android:34271 alt.os.linux:38853 On 2016-09-15, VanguardLH wrote: > Jolly Roger wrote: > >> VanguardLH wrote: >> >>> A couple tests showed response was very quick; however, accuracy was >>> poor (passable for me but definitely not for cranky) and there is no way >>> to indentify punctuation. >> >> You can't say "period" or "question mark" or "exclamation point" to end a >> sentence? > > Announcing punctuation sometimes works but you have to be clear on > saying period, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, etc. Saying > "semicolon" resulted in inputted that string, not the ";" character. > "Paragraph" resulted in inputting the word instead of a starting a new > paragraph. I might yet have to learn (instead of the program learning) > the style of voice input needed to get all punctuation recognized. > > In my prior test, I would annonce a punctuation character right along > with the text and then continue speaking the next sentence; i.e., no > pause. I found that if I pause, especially after announcing the > punctuation character, like half a second, that first the string got > entered and then backspaced after a pause to replace the string with the > punctuation character. So it takes some training to get used to how to > comply with the needs of the program (rather than it learning your > voice). That's interesting. Siri seems to get it right whether I pause or not. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR