Saturday, 25 May 2013

Help Siri with her punctuation


Siri’s pretty good when it comes to simple dictation, but when it comes to changes in punctuation and line spacing, she needs a bit more direction. Luckily, this virtual assistant does exactly what you want her to if you know what to say.

Siri recognizes all of the following symbols and commands: open/close parenthesis, em dash (the long dash), copyright, dollar, cent, degree, percent, asterisk, ampersand, all caps, all caps off, cap (which capitalizes a single letter), registered, and more. So if you wanted to dictate an email without making any manual changes, you would say something like this:

cap
 Dear Siri comma cap, It is my regret to inform you that cap I will have to reschedule our meeting today period.”