“By default, Siri doesn’t know when you’ve ended a question or command and often misinterprets a pause as the end of your query,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET. “But in the new iOS 7.1, you can easily correct Siri’s poor manners.”
“Simply hold down the Home button until you’ve finished your entire question or comment,” Whitney reports. “Until you release that Home button, Siri will wait patiently before offering a response and potentially interrupting you”
“By default, you can activate Siri one of two ways: lifting the phone up to your ear or holding down the Home button. But sometimes Siri inadvertently pops up when you raise the phone to talk to someone or press the Home button a second too long. And both methods require a hands-on approach,” Whitney reports. “There is another option that even incorporates a hands-free approach. You can trigger Siri with but a turn of your head.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Already tried that, last night. Got a crick in my neck doing it over & over. It kept complaining that my face was too close.
LOL. The trick is to get close to Siri but not rub your nose in her glass. 🙂
I’m really proud of my daughter’s 40DD’s. Ask Siri to show you some poontang. She’ll get polite real fast. Anyway here’s a video of my daughter’s boobs.
This is a decent interim measure, but Apple needs to hire more computational linguists… or develop them. I guess that’s another failing of Forstall who had that sort of background.