Presented by Jeff Hensel February 9, 2017
Attendees: 26
Talking to your device now works great with speaker notes
Jeff shared how voice recognition and the ability for our phones to understand our voices has dramatically improved in the past few years.
It is much more difficult to type on our phones and tablets versus our computer keyboards and that won’t change. However, the technology has evolved so much that we can confidently speak to our devices and those words can be correctly interpreted. This means we can speak text messages instead of typing them. We can speak emails instead of typing them. Jeff’s presentation shows how to use the “microphone” key to initiate speaking within the desired app.
In addition, iPhone has Siri, their digital assistant who you can speak to and have “her” perform desired tasks like creating and sending text messages, creating and sending emails or even answering those texts and emails. However, Siri can do much, much more. Click here for a comprehensive list of Siri commands.
Fortunately, Android phones can do the same things and have their own digital assistant called Google Now. Click here for an article on those Google Now commands and how to turn on Google Now.
And lastly, Jeff shared how Amazon Echo and Google Homedevices are used strictly with voice. See how these devices work and the common things they can do. Both do very much the same things but there are some unique and even funny things they can do like tell jokes, play trivia games, etc.
