“As soon as I heard about what Siri would offer during the iOS 5 announcement, I got really excited. Here was a tool that was perfectly geared toward the road warrior. Not only was it an integrated way to dictate text to the iPhone, but to also interact directly with it in a conversational way to get information out,” jhrogersii writes for iSource. “I knew this could definitely change the way I spend my time in the car.”
“I used to keep my iPhone jailbroken as much as possible, and there was a hack for SBSettings that would force all audio through to your Bluetooth headset, even if it didn’t have A2DP. I tried using this with Dragon Search and Dictation, Jott, ReQall, and Vlingo, but ultimately with very little success. The fidelity and consistency of operation just wasn’t good enough to rely on,” jhrogersii writes. “Eventually, several of these apps were updated to work natively with Bluetooth headsets, but even then, they just didn’t work well enough to be worth the trouble to use. There were always too many mistakes to correct, and I couldn’t rely on the headset to work every time I pushed the button. Between hardware hiccups and typos, if you’re constantly having to pay attention to the app, or press the screen to copy or paste text or do whatever else, is that really any safer than just typing a text using the keyboard? Unfortunately, not really. (And just for the record, I am NOT condoning or recommending that practice.)”
jhrogersii writes, “So, how is Siri stacking up, you ask? So far, I absolutely love it. LOVE IT! In fact, it has worked so well for me, that I have changed up some of the services I use and ways I do things so that I can take better advantage of its capabilities while on the road… In this article, I am going to focus on using Siri with a Bluetooth headset. Anyone who has used Siri by holding the iPhone up to their head knows that it works flawlessly using this method. It also works very, very well with Apple’s included headset with mic. Things can be a little different, however, when you bring a 3rd party device to the table. But, if you dock your iPhone in the car like I do, and have it connected to your car’s stereo, you need Siri to work well without the wires and away from your face.”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]