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Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing?

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.ipad, misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing?
Date 2015-04-06 21:12 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <cogb5bF7m1iU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2015-04-06, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> In article <5522ed98$0$1269$c3e8da3$460562f1@news.astraweb.com>, JF
> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> > On 6 Apr 2015 19:01:05 GMT, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >>That's not what we are talking about. We are talking about typing the
>> >>command into a Spotlight search *rather* than asking Siri by voice.
>> 
>> Actually not quite. We are talking about getting the same "intelligence"
>> that is provided by Siri by typing in the question instead of saying it
>> out-loud.
>> 
>> The initial suggestion was to use "Spotlight". But I believe that even
>> you had to admit that Spotlight did not provide the same level of
>> intelligence in searching as is provided by Siri. So spotlight is NOT an
>> equivalent to Siri.
>
> I don't think anyone ever said Spotlight (or Google, etc.) was "an
> equivalent" to Sili. Simply that you can use those other services to
> perform searches without needing to talk to the device and the hopeless
> speech "recognition".

Correct. The reason I suggested the OP give Spotlight a try is that many
of the commands you can issue to Siri are commands that can be fulfilled
by Spotlight. For instance if I want to launch an app with Siri, I
typically just say the name of the app. If I instead type the name of an
app in Spotlight, I can launch the app from the resulting search
results. Naturally, I am aware and acknowledge that not all commands
accepted by Siri can be issued in Spotlight. But without much of an
indication of which commands the OP wanted to type, I simply made the
suggestion that he give Spotlight a try to see if it would serve his
needs. I never claimed Spotight is a complete Siri replacement, as JF
Mezei is suggesting.

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Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-04-04 14:49 -0500
  Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-04 20:01 +0000
    Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? "zulu" <zulu.romeotangohotel@ntlworld.com> - 2015-04-04 21:42 +0100
      Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-04 21:05 +0000
    Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-04-04 14:30 -0700
    Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-04-05 04:31 -0700
      Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-05 13:50 +0000
      Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-05 13:53 +0000
        Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-04-06 10:46 -0700
          Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-06 17:54 +0000
            Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-04-06 11:02 -0700
            Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? BobbyK <bknight@Conramp.net> - 2015-04-06 13:06 -0500
              Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-04-06 11:21 -0700
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? BobbyK <bknight@Conramp.net> - 2015-04-06 13:30 -0500
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-07 08:55 +1200
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? BobbyK <bknight@Conramp.net> - 2015-04-06 19:44 -0500
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-04-07 20:57 -0700
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-08 16:19 +1200
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-07 02:52 +0000
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-04-07 20:54 -0700
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-08 10:02 +0000
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-04-08 05:27 -0700
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-08 19:12 +0000
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-04-09 06:51 -0700
              Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-06 19:01 +0000
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? BobbyK <bknight@Conramp.net> - 2015-04-06 14:52 -0500
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-06 16:33 -0400
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-07 08:48 +1200
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-06 21:12 +0000
                Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-06 21:08 +0000
  Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-05 09:18 +1200
    Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-04 22:17 -0400
      Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-05 14:26 +1200
        Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-04 19:54 -0700
          Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-05 04:03 +0000
          Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 14:17 +1000
            Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-04 21:28 -0700
          Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-05 01:38 -0400
            Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-05 18:22 +1200
            Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-05 13:52 +0000
      Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-04 19:53 -0700
        Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-04-07 23:50 +1300
  Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-04 16:11 -0700
    Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 10:45 +1000
  Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-04-04 23:16 -0400
  Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-04-07 23:50 +1300
    Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-04-07 21:01 -0700
      Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-04-08 21:20 +1300
        Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-04-08 05:31 -0700
          Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-08 14:32 +0000
            Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-08 08:34 -0700
              Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-08 19:14 +0000
            Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-04-09 12:41 +1300
              Re: Communicate with Siri without talking and hearing? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-09 00:51 +0000

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