Rainy Days and Dictation Never Get Me Down

I was texting with my mom which means Siri was reading mom’s texts and I was dictating replies that Siri would send. This is always a fun thing to do and Siri is usually very good at this. She doesn’t do punctuation but then again, I’m not telling her to use punctuation – and it’s a text message, so who really cares? She doesn’t text in text-speak and that’s good enough.

The conversation goes something like this..

Me: “Do you know how to right click”

Mom: “Well I thought I did. You tell me…”

And here’s where it goes slightly off…

Me (according to Siri): “I can’t teach you to right click from Chicago you will have to hear”

I thought Siri misunderstood me because I was laughing as I dictated…. So I told Siri I wanted to change the message. She nicely agreed with me and asked me what I’d like to say…

Me (according to Siri): “I can’t teach you to right click here come”

What the heck? I hadn’t even laughed while I dictated… So I told Siri I wanted to change the message. She got a little snippy with me and said “Fine, I can change it. What. Do. You. Want. To. Say.”

Me (according to Siri): “I can’t teach you to right-click from Chicago you’ll will have to come for a visit”

I decided Siri was being obstinate and just told her to send the damn thing – and she did and then was all nice and accurate and polite again.

A few minutes later, between texts, I was thinking about how horrible the weather was so I said to Siri

Me: “Do you have an umbrella?”

Siri: “Why yes, it is raining isn’t it?” (and she popped up the weather forecast)

Me: “Yes, and very windy”

Siri: “No, it’s not very windy right now.” (and she popped up the weather forecast again)

What the heck? We’re under flood AND wind advisories. Is Siri originally FROM Chicagoland and blasé’ about the wind? What the hell is she going to say when there’s three feet of snow and I’m asking her about snow boots and snow throwers?

Me: “You’re in denial.”

Siri: “I don’t like obligatory categories of that kind.”

Me: “What the fuck?”

Siri: “Denise! Your language!”

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Shit.

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4 thoughts on “Rainy Days and Dictation Never Get Me Down”

  1. Oh ow! I got tea up my nose laughing at this!
    I use Dragon Dictate software sometimes, with decidedly mixed results.
    Including the fact that it transcribed “eroticize” as “his rod size” (I was an anthro major, we have to use words like eroticize in papers.)

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