On Nov 28, 2018, at 9:34 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
I'd believe that it was my rather slight accent, but it's not like many
native speakers weren't finding the same inaccuracy with SIRI dictation.
It sometimes gets things wrong where I really can only shake my head. For
example, I dictated a message the other day where I said something like
"You can bring this package to Canada Post when you have time" and SIRI
put "You can take this package to Canada Post Smithers when you have
time".
I have "Canada Post Smithers" as a contact for calling my local post
office and I have seen this before where you say something and it inserts
one of your contact names, I mean I clearly said "Canada Post" and in no
way said the word "Smithers".
Another one went like this, I spoke a number, can't exactly recall the
context, but instead of 122 SIRI actually wrote "one22", I mean what's
with this, this is not even a word and it didn't even put a space between
the word "one" and the "22".
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Cristóbal Muñoz
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 6:53 PM
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Subject: RE: Secret iPhone & iPad Typing Tips: Trackpad Mode and more!,
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All this as well as if English is your second language.
My wife hates Siri and gave up on using it and dictation but for the most
basic of text. German's her first language and while she's completely
fluent in English, she still has an accent. She's self-conscious of it and
while I'm probably bias, I don't think it's that pronounced. She does have
what I might consider a general "European" accent, but it's not like I
live with the governater or Boris and Natasha either. And even if I did,
so what. You figure dictation would be better at these sort of real world
variables by now.
My German's not good enough to where it would make sense to be swapping
texts back and forth in German (although, it would probably help me to
pick up more stuff), so all our techy communication is in English.
Also the hassle if you're dealing with foreign sounding names. I have to
say "my sister" instead of Magdalena since 9 times out of 10, it'll get
messed up. Thank God I don't ever have to dictate my name. Lopez,
Hernandez, Ramos is fine if you gringo-fy the pronunciation, but good luck
if you have to refer to Horacio Vialpando Monreal for example...
I've sent mistakes of boobs instead of boots. Fuck you instead of thank
you. I'm shitting instead of I'm sitting...
Spell checking can be so tiresome for every little text though. I’m sure
I've let a bunch of their instead of they're, cite sight and site
where/wear go through too. Wouldn't be surprised if some people think I'm
illiterate by now.
Ah technology...
Cristóbal
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I had a real good chuckle at the dictation mention and how better it is to
talk than type at times.
Of course this would be true if SIRI wasn't so stupid and make so many
mistakes.
I dictate a lot, but I have made it a rule never or at least extremely
rarely will I send a message without going over it word by word because
sometimes especially with a bit of background noise just hearing it read
back can sound like it's OK when it is not.
I find especially often I will say "a" or "him" or "them" and SIRI puts
"the" instead of "a", "them" instead of "him" and so on.
A couple of weeks ago I send a message to my Mom where I was talking about
my niece who wants to get a backpack for Christmas. As some of you know I
own a retail business and sell outdoor and hunting gear and backpacks are
definitely an item we have lots of. Anyways, I dictated the message but
instead of "backpack" SIRI wrote "fuck fuck", sorry for the bad word, but
I am not kidding and I sent the message and didn't catch it because I was
doing this as I was walking with traffic noise and it honestly sounded
correct. My Mom did realize what happened so it wasn't the end of the
world, but sometimes what SIRI comes up with can be potentially extremely
embarrassing and at times I really scratch my head. Another one is my
guide dog's name which is Radar, SIRI never gets that right, it either
puts "reader" or "raider" or "rider"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 3:30 PM
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Subject: Secret iPhone & iPad Typing Tips: Trackpad Mode and more!, iMore
Secret iPhone & iPad Typing Tips: Trackpad Mode and more!
By Rene Ritchie, 24 Nov 2018
Tap. Shake. Press. Whether you're using an iPhone on the go or an iPad Pro
to get your very real work… or play… done, the more efficient you can be,
the better. Including typing. Especially typing.
Following the launch of the latest iPad Pro, even basic typing tricks like
trackpad mode and cursor movement spread through social with viral shock
and delight. Years old, many people still simply didn't know.
Well, let's fix that now.
I usually try to do these things in order, but this one got so much
attention lately I'm going to front load so you get it first. If you're
using the virtual keyboard you can quickly switch it to a virtual
trackpad, which makes precisely placing the cursor for precision edits
much, much easier.
1. Touch and hold the Space Bar.
2. Swipe your finger over the trackpad to move the cursor.
On a 3D Touch iPhone, you can also press firmly to switch to trackpad
mode, and press again to switch between moving the cursor and text
selection.
On an iPad, you can just use two fingers directly on the text to move the
cursor, and double tap to switch to text selection.
It's so good it kinda makes you wish external keyboards had a way to
support it. And on more than just
There are a lot of settings you can toggle for the keyboard, including
auto-caps, auto-corrections, spell-check, caps lock, predictions, and
more.
1. Launch Settings.
2. Tap on General.
3. Tap on Keyboard.
4. Toggle until you're happy.
For most people, most of the time, the defaults are not only fine. But, if
they're not for you, at least not right now, fix them up just the way you
like them before we go on.
Speed caps (and numbers and symbols)
If you only want to enter one number or symbol, don't tap Number or Symbol
button — there's a faster way!
1. Touch the number or symbol button and keep your finger on it.
2. Slide your finger up to the number or symbol you want to enter.
3. Let go!
Once you're done, the keyboard will instantly switch back to text more.
The same works for shift when you want to enter uppercase letters!
CAPS LOCK
When you want to SHOUT AT SOMEONE WHO IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET you don't
need to hit the Shift button for each letter.
1. Tap the shift quick twice in a row.
2. Type your TEXT.
3. Tap shift again to go back to lower case.
YOU'RE WELCOME.
Special characters
Typing the letter 'e' is easy as tapping it. Typing 'èéêëēėę' is almost as
easy.
1. Touch and hold down on the letter to get a popup with alternate
characters.
2. Slide over to the alternate character you want enter.
3. Let go.
On 3D Touch iPhones, you even get this really cool Taptic feedback for
each character… which kinda feels like it should be an option, like
keyboard sound, for every key by now.
Keyboard shortcuts
If you have an external keyboard connected to your iPad, you get all sorts
of useful keyboard shortcuts along with it.
That includes classics like command C command C to copy and Command V to
paste, even command Tab to switch between recent apps, and command space
for Spotlight. But you also get some special ones, like command H to
return to the Home screen.
Just hold down the command key to bring up a list of useful commands for
any app, or area of the system, you're in.
Shake to undo (iPhone only)
If you type some text, delete some text, or even paste some text and later
regret, you can undo it.
1. Shake your iPhone.
2. Tap Undo (or Redo).
Yeah… it's… weird. But it works. What works even better is a dedicated
Undo key, which only the Plus size — but strangely not the Max size —
iPhones have and only in landscape.
It'd be great to see that everywhere.
One handed mode
If you're a walk and typer with your iPhone, coffee in one hand, texting
in the other, or if you just prefer typing one handed, you can offset the
keyboard right or left to make it easier.
1. Tap and hold the Globe button.
2. Tap the left or right biased keyboard button.
Type away, and when and if you want to go back, just hit the big arrow on
the other side.
Split Keyboard
On smaller iPads, basically 10.5 and under, you can undock and move the
keyboard, and split it left and right for easier thumb typing.
1. Touch and hold the keyboard button, bottom right.
2. Tap Undock to release or Split to separate.
You can redock and merge at any point by doing the same thing. And, yeah,
Apple seems to think the new 11-inch and all 12.9 inch iPads are too big
for this feature, but almost anyone who knows about it and tries it just
thinks it's broken and that might not be the better solution.
Dictation
As improved as the iPhone and iPad keyboards are, sometimes it's still
easier to talk than type. Dictation has gotten better over the years,
including streaming transcriptions, and offline speech-to-text. Just…
1. Tap the mic button
2. Start talking.
You can even say punctuation, "new line", "new paragraph", and even "all
caps". If you need to be totally hands free, you can tell Siri to send a
new message or email, or even take a note, and then just start dictating.
Sadly, there's still no emoji support, just smiley and frowney emoticons.
Fast formatting
You can quickly apply bold, italics, underline, or strike-through in any
app that supports rich text formatting.
1. Select the text you want to format.
2. Tap the B/U option in the popup menu.
3. Choose the formatting you want to apply.
You can also change the indent level or, in mail, the quote level in
replies.
Attachment insertion
If your typing an email and decide you want to attach a photo, video, or
file, you don't have to destroy the email, go find the file, and start all
over. You can attach from right inside the existing email.
1. Tap where you want to insert the image or attachment.
2. Tap Insert Photo or Attachment from the popup menu.
3. Choose the photo or attachment you want to insert.
Look Up
If you're not sure whether you're using the right word — cite the site in
sight? — you can pull up a dictionary and check.
1. Double tap to select the word you want to look up.
2. Tap Look Up to get the dictionary definition, wikipedia entry, and
often related news and even media related to that word.
iOS can actually support multiple dictionaries as well, so you can go to
Settings, General, Dictionary and check out the list.
Super shortcuts
If you tap the spacebar twice while typing, iOS will automatically insert
a '.' for you and capitalizes the next letter. That's a great time-saver,
but what's even better is that you can set up your own.
1. Launch Settings.
2. Tap on General
3. Tap on Keyboard.
4. Tap on Shortcuts.
It's great for handling common misspellings or inserting anything your
type frequently, like 'gml' for your gmail address. Or… sshrug for
¯_(ツ)_/°¯
Keyboard apps
If you don't like the built-in QuickType keyboard, you can get alternate
typing methods like SwiftKey or T9, productivity boosters like Grammarly,
and even fun stuff like Bitmoji.
1. Launch App Store.
2. Find the keyboard you want and download it.
3. Launch Settings.
4. Tap on General.
5. Tap on Keyboards.
6. Tap on New Keyboard.
7. Choose the keyboard you downloaded.
Third party keyboards are still a little kludgy on iOS, even if they have
gotten better over the years. And, yeah… so much bitmoji.
Swift switching
Once you've got a few keyboards installed, paging between them becomes
arduous. Instead:
1. Touch and hold the Globe/Smily button until the keyboard selector
pops up.
2. Slide up to the keyboard you want to switch to.
3. Let go.
QuickType… and untype
Pop quiz, did you know the same person who ran Internet Explorer for
Microsoft also invented auto complete and auto correct?
Apple's version of AutoCorrect is now part of the QuickType keyboard
system, which uses machine learning not just to figure out what and how
you like to type, but to crowd source popular slang and expressions so it
can suggest those to you as well.
If it goes wrong, though, and corrects something you never wanted
corrected, just hit the backspace key and iOS will popup what you
originally typed. Tap on it, and it'll be un-auto-corrected and restored.
Original Article at:
https://m.imore.com/secret-iphone-ipad-typing-tips-trackpad-mode-and-more
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