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 >email ><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] >MSN: ><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>Phil Scovell >To: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] >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. >