Hi Jennifer and Everyone,

I just love the things that people ask Siri. lol.

My little brother, Joe,  had someone program Siri so it actually says 
his name. lol.

I also really want an iPhone 4S so badly!

Pat Ferguson
At 05:40 PM 3/22/2012, you wrote:
>Phil.
>That's hilarious!  Jeremy asked Siri to marry him, and she said 
>that's not in her end license agreement!  LOL.
>Jenifer Gilley
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>Phil Scovell
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>Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:57 PM
>Subject: iPhone 4S
>
>I may have mentioned this first thing before on echurch but when I 
>got the iPhone 4S and learned a little about how to use siri, I had 
>an astonishing experience first thing.  By the way, siri is apart of 
>the iPhone 4S whereby you can speak into the phone while holding 
>down a button and do all types of verbal commands including 
>searching the internet for anything you speak.  You can ask siri, 
>"How far am I from the moon," and it will search your location, hunt 
>the web, and within seconds tell you how many miles it is to the 
>moon.  You can ask for pizza joints within 3 miles of your home and 
>a list comes up with phone numbers and addresses.  You can GPS mode 
>and walk, or drive, while the phone gives you directions.  I use 
>siri mostly to register appointments, time and date and the like, or 
>to ask about the current weather report, or to send a text 
>message.  When doing that, the iPhone will convert your speech into 
>text and send the message.  Anyhow, one of the first times I went to 
>use it, I held the talk button down, and when the phone beeped for 
>me to start speaking, before I could say a word, one of our dog's 
>name Jack barked just once from about 40 feet away.  Jack is a 
>miniature pincher.  I let up on the button without asking siri to do 
>anything and the voice synthesizer said, "Hey, hi."  I felt the 
>touch screen until I found the text to be sure and it was exactly 
>what I said it was; "Hey, hi."  I don't know if it was answering 
>Jack or if Jack's bark was "Hey, hi."  Haha.  Maybe the new iPhones 
>can speak dog talk, too.
>
>The second unusual thing happened today.  Brad had told me about a 
>program called iBird which covers either all the United States or 
>you can by 5 dollar programs for your area of the U S so I bought 
>the western iBird program and it has 826 bird calls with information 
>about each bird.  It pretty much covers Colorado and all points 
>west.  I went out on our deck this afternoon and took out my 
>phone.  I looked up Mountain Chickadee, which is what we call it 
>here, but couldn't find it so I just looked under chickadee and 
>found a listing called chickadee, black cat.  I pressed it and told 
>it to play.  The mountain chickadee is basically a two tone 
>song.  It is a high pitched whistle with the second note following 
>but a few notes further down the scale but not far; maybe one note 
>lower.  I can whistle that high so occasionally try and get one to 
>answer but being in town, they don't often come into the city.  This 
>time, playing through my speaker phone, it was quite loud and it was 
>the higher lower tone version; exactly what I wanted.  It played for 
>about 5 seconds, maybe 4 repetitions of it's song, and suddenly, 
>from a long ways away, a real mountain chickadee answered.  He was 
>flying because the song was going all over the place.  I kept 
>playing the song from my phone and the real bird flew right over my 
>yard and very close, maybe within 100 feet away and 30 feet from the 
>ground.  I stopped the phone and waited a few minutes and then 
>repeated the whole thing.  The bird that had gone quiet, started up 
>again and once again flew over my yard answering my phone.  I tried 
>it again, after a few minutes of total silence, and sure enough, the 
>real mountain chickadee answered and started flying around the 
>neighborhood looking from me.  I heard a robin so I dialed that up 
>but the robin didn't answer.  I have a blue jay and we have those 
>here, so I'll have to try that one some day.  We have different 
>mocking birds, too, and that's on my phone so I bet I can get one of 
>those to answer because they are very common around here.  They 
>sound like crow calls most of the time but in captivity, they can be 
>taught how to talk and whistle like a parrot.  I know.  We had a 
>friend in western Colorado who caught one and taught him to talk and 
>say all sorts of things.
>
>Phil.
>