13 Working with Siri

In this chapter, you learn about all the great things you can do with your iPhone by speaking to it. Topics include the following:

➔ Getting started

➔ Understanding Siri’s personality

➔ Learning how to use Siri by example

Siri is Apple’s name for the iPhone’s and iPad’s voice recognition feature. This technology enables your iPhone to “listen” to words you speak so that you can issue commands just by saying them, such as “Send text message to Sam,” and the iPhone accomplishes the tasks you speak.

Getting Started

Siri gives you the ability to talk to your iPhone to control it, get information, and to dictate text. Siri ...

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