Siri Tips http://www.siritips.com Tips For Using Your Virtual Personal Assistant Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:15:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to: Search the web using Siri http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-search-the-web-using-siri http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-search-the-web-using-siri#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:11:35 +0000 admin http://www.siritips.com/?p=252 Continue reading →]]> Here are some example phrases for the iPhone4S’s voice assistant Siri.

Looking up information

  • Search the web for Bora Bora
  • Search for vegetarian pasta recipes
  • Search the web for best cable plans
  • Google the war of 1812
  • Search Wikipedia for Abraham Lincoln
  • Search for news about the World Cup
  • Bing Alicia Keys

 

Using Wolfram Alpha

  • How many calories in a bagel?
  • What is an 18% tip on $86.74 for four people?
  • Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?
  • How long do dogs live?
  • What is the Gossamer Condor?
  • What’s the square root of 128?
  • How many dollars is €45?
  • What was the Best Picture of 1983?
  • How many days until Christmas?
  • How far away is the Sun?
  • When is the next solar eclipse?
  • Show me the Orion constellation
  • What’s the population of Jamaica?
  • How high is Mt. Everest?
  • How deep is the Atlantic ocean?
  • What’s the price of gasoline in Chicago?
]]> http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-search-the-web-using-siri/feed 0 How to: Check the Weather using Siri http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-check-the-weather-using-siri http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-check-the-weather-using-siri#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:09:44 +0000 admin http://www.siritips.com/?p=250 Continue reading →]]> Here are some example phrases for the iPhone4S’s voice assistant Siri.

Checking the Forecast

  • What’s the weather for today?
  • What’s the weather for tomorrow?
  • Will it rain in Cupertino this week?
  • Check next week’s forecast for Burlington
  • What’s the forecast for this evening?
  • How’s the weather in Tampa right now?
  • How hot will it be in Palm Springs this weekend?
  • What’s the high for Anchorage on Thursday?
  • What’s the temperature outside?
  • How windy is it out there?
  • When is sunrise in Paris?
]]> http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-check-the-weather-using-siri/feed 0 How to: Check Stocks using Siri http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-check-stocks-using-siri http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-check-stocks-using-siri#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:08:14 +0000 admin http://www.siritips.com/?p=248 Continue reading →]]> Here are some example phrases for the iPhone4S’s voice assistant Siri.

Checking Stocks

  • What’s Apple’s stock price?
  • What is Apple’s PE ratio?
  • What did Yahoo close at today?
  • How is the Nikkei doing?
  • How are the markets doing?
  • What is the Dow at?
]]> http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-check-stocks-using-siri/feed 0 How to: Create Reminders using Siri http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-create-reminders-using-siri http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-create-reminders-using-siri#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:07:37 +0000 admin http://www.siritips.com/?p=246 Continue reading →]]> Here are some example phrases for the iPhone4S’s voice assistant Siri.

Requesting reminders

  • Remind me to call mom
  • Remind me to call my mom when I get home
  • Remember to take an umbrella
  • Remind me take my medicine at 6am tomorrow
  • Remind me to pick up flowers when I leave here
  • Remind me when I leave to call Jason
  • Remind me to finish the report by 6
]]> http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-create-reminders-using-siri/feed 0 How to: Make Phone calls using Siri http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-make-phone-calls-using-siri http://www.siritips.com/siri/how-to-make-phone-calls-using-siri#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:06:04 +0000 admin http://www.siritips.com/?p=244 Here are some example phrases for the iPhone4S’s voice assistant Siri.

Phone calls

  • Call Jason
  • Call Jennifer Wright mobile
  • Call Susan on her work phone
  • Call 408 555 1212
  • Call home
  • FaceTime Lisa
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Creating and finding notes

  • Note that I spent $12 on lunch
  • Note: check out that new Alicia Keys album
  • Find my restaurant note
  • Create a reading list note
  • Add Tom Sawyer to my reading list note
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Playback

  • Play The Light of the Sun
  • Play Trouble
  • Play Taking Back Sunday shuffled
  • Play Alicia Keys
  • Play some blues
  • Play my party mix
  • Shuffle my roadtrip playlist
  • Play
  • Pause
  • Skip
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Sending Texts

  • Tell Susan I’ll be right there
  • Send a message to Jason Russell
  • Send a message to Lisa saying how about tomorrow
  • Tell Jennifer the show was great
  • Send a message to Susan on her mobile saying I’ll be late
  • Send a message to 408 555 1212
  • Text Jason and Lisa where are you?

Reading Texts

  • Read my new messages
  • Read it again

Replying to Texts

  • Reply that’s great news
  • Tell him I’ll be there in 10 minutes
  • Call her
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Directions

  • How do I get home?
  • Show 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino California
  • Directions to my dad’s work

Local Businesses

  • Find coffee near me
  • Where is Starbucks?
  • Find some burger joints in Baltimore
  • Find a gas station within walking distance
  • Good Mexican restaurants around here
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Checking Up on Friends

  • Where’s Jason?
  • Where is my sister?
  • Is my wife at home?
  • Where are all my friends?
  • Who is here?
  • Who is near me?
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