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Effectively Using Siri. Mark A. Smith. Siri Start-Up. Enabling - Settings General Siri Uses 3G/4G and Wi-Fi networks to communicate rapidly with Apple’s data centers Activating Lift iPhone to your ear - Initiates a private Siri session
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Effectively Using Siri Mark A. Smith
Siri Start-Up • Enabling - Settings General Siri • Uses 3G/4G and Wi-Fi networks to communicate rapidly with Apple’s data centers • Activating • Lift iPhone to your ear - Initiates a private Siri session • Press and hold the “Home” button for one second - Initiates a Siri session via the speakerphone on the iPhone • Press and hold the “Control” button on your handset - Initiates a private Sirisession SIRI – Stanford Research Institute’s Artificial Intelligence Center
General Voice Commands • Help me – Siri offers help options • Where am I? • Call my [relationship: wife, child, mom, brother, sister, etc.] • [Name] is my [relationship] • Canceling Siri - Press the “Home” button
Map Commands • Uses location services on your iPhone • Find [topic] near me • Where is nearest McDonalds? • Where is an ATM around here?
Clock Commands • Wake me at … • Change my [time] alarm to [time] • Turn off [time] alarm • Delete my [time] alarm • Wake me in X hours • Set timer for X minutes • Pause timer, Resume timer, Reset timer
Messaging Commands • Message or Text [name, relationship, or number] … • Read my new messages • Read it again • Reply … • Send message: Text or send message [person, relationship, number] • Confirming message to send: Read it to me or Read it back to me
Email Commands • Email [person or relationship] • Email [person or relationship] about [Subject] • Check email • Show new mail about … • Show new mail from …
Calendar Commands • Make an appointment • Set up a meeting or Meet with … • Move my [time] meeting to [time] • Change the location of … meeting to … • When is my next meeting? • Where is my next meeting? • What is on my calendar for [day or date]? • What does the rest of my day look like?
Reminders Commands • Remind me … • Remember to … • Remind me to [do something] when I get back here • Remind me to find [topic] when I leave here • Remind me to [topic] every X days, weeks, months, once a year
Notes Commands • Grocery List example • Note: [topic or statement] • Add or Add to note … (To add information to the currently accessed note) • Take a Note or Start a Note (To begin a new note) • Find my [topic] note • Siri cannot delete/remove Notes
Contacts Commands • What is [person's/relationship's] phone number • What is [person's/relationship's] address • When is [person's/relationships birthday • What is [person's/relationship's] email address
Wolfram Alpha • An answer engine developed by Wolfram Research • A computational knowledge engine: generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web • Wolfram or Ask Wolfram • What is …, When was… When was Lincoln born? What are the calories in a McDonalds Apple Pie? • Wolfram, generate password • Wolfram, calculate…
Web Search Commands • Search the web • Search the web for [topic] • Google [topic] • Yahoo [topic] • Bing [topic] • I want to see pictures of [topic]
General Voice Commands • Define [word] • Calculate sales tax (How much is [cost] plus [location] sales tax?) • Calculate tip (What is [cost] with a X percent tip?) • Check average prices
Dictation • Punctuation Commands • General Typography Commands • Intellectual Property Commands • Math Symbols • Currency Commands • General Dictation Commands