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| new line | move to the next line (like pressing “Return” on a keyboard) |
| new paragraph | to start a new paragraph |
| all caps | to make the next word all uppercaseFor example, saying: I am hungry feed me all caps now please produces the text: I am hungry feed me NOW please |
| all caps on … all caps off | to make part of what you say uppercaseFor example, saying: I am hungry all caps on feed me now all caps off please produces the text: I am hungry FEED ME NOW please |
| no caps | to make the next word lowercaseFor example, saying: I like no caps Mike produces the text: I like mike |
| no caps on … no caps off | to make sure part of what you say is all lowercaseFor example, saying: Our friends no caps on Steve and Tina no caps off live in California produces the text: Our friends steve and tina live in California |
| space bar | to prevent a hyphen from appearing in a normally hyphenated wordFor example, saying: This restaurant is first space bar class prevents first-class from being hyphenated, and produces the text: This restaurant is first class |
| period | . |
| comma | , |
| apostrophe | ‘(although in many cases, apostrophes are automatically inserted, like when saying Sam’s new iPhone) |
| exclamation point | ! |
| question mark | ? |
| ampersand | & |
| asterisk | * |
| open parenthesis | ( |
| close parenthesis | ) |
| open bracket | [ |
| close bracket | ] |
| open brace | { |
| close brace | } |
| dash | -For example, saying: This dash is dash my dash cheese produces the text: This – is – my – cheese (note the difference in spacing between this and when saying hyphen) |
| hyphen | -For example, saying: This hyphen is hyphen my hyphen cheese produces the text: This-is-my-cheese (note the difference in spacing between this and when saying dash) |
| em dash | — |
| percent sign | % |
| copyright sign | © |
| registered sign | ® |
| section sign | § |
| dollar sign | $ |
| cent sign | ¢ |
| degree sign | ° |
| caret | ^ |
| at sign | @ |
| pound sterling sign | £ |
| pound sign | # |
| greater than sign | > |
| less than sign | < |
| forward slash | / |
| back slash | \ |
| vertical bar | | |
| smiley (or smiley face, or smile face) | :-) |
| frowny (or frowny face, or frown face) | :-( |
| winky (or winky face, or wink face) | ;-) |
Calendars
Adding Events
- Set up a meeting at 9
- Set up a meeting with Michael at 9
- Meet with Lisa at noon
- Set up a meeting about hiring tomorrow at 9am
- New appointment with Susan Park Friday at 3
- Schedule a planning meeting at 8:30 today in the boardroom
- Move my 3pm meeting to 4:30
- Reschedule my appointment with Dr. Manning to next Monday at 9am
- Add Lisa to my meeting with Jason
- Cancel the budget review meeting
- What does the rest of my day look like?
- What’s on my calendar for Friday?
- When is my next appointment?
- When am I meeting with Michael?
- Where is my next meeting?
Setting Alarms
- Wake me up tomorrow at 7am
- Set an alarm for 6:30am
- Wake me up in 8 hours
- Change my 6:30 alarm to 6:45
- Turn off my 6:30 alarm
- Delete my 7:30 alarm
- What time is it?
- What time is it in Berlin?
- What is today’s date?
- What’s the date this Saturday?
- Set the timer for ten minutes
- Show the timer
- Pause the timer
- Resume
- Reset the timer
- Stop it
Sending Messages
- Email Lisa about the trip
- Email Jennifer about the change in plans
- New email to Susan Park
- Mail Dad about the rent check
- Email Dr. Manning and say I got the forms, thanks
- Mail Lisa and Jason about the party and say I had a great time
- Check email
- Any new email from Michael today?
- Show new mail about the lease
- Show the email from Lisa yesterday
- Reply Dear Susan sorry about the late payment
- Call him at work
Checking Up on Friends
- Where’s Jason?
- Where is my sister?
- Is my wife at home?
- Where are all my friends?
- Who is here?
- Who is near me?
Directions
- How do I get home?
- Show 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino California
- Directions to my dad’s work
- Find coffee near me
- Where is Starbucks?
- Find some burger joints in Baltimore
- Find a gas station within walking distance
- Good Mexican restaurants around here
Sending Texts
- Tell Susan I’ll be right there
- Send a message to Jason Russell
- Send a message to Lisa saying how about tomorrow
- Tell Jennifer the show was great
- Send a message to Susan on her mobile saying I’ll be late
- Send a message to 408 555 1212
- Text Jason and Lisa where are you?
- Read my new messages
- Read it again
- Reply that’s great news
- Tell him I’ll be there in 10 minutes
- Call her
Playback
- Play The Light of the Sun
- Play Trouble
- Play Taking Back Sunday shuffled
- Play Alicia Keys
- Play some blues
- Play my party mix
- Shuffle my roadtrip playlist
- Play
- Pause
- Skip
Creating and finding notes
- Note that I spent $12 on lunch
- Note: check out that new Alicia Keys album
- Find my restaurant note
- Create a reading list note
- Add Tom Sawyer to my reading list note
Phone calls
- Call Jason
- Call Jennifer Wright mobile
- Call Susan on her work phone
- Call 408 555 1212
- Call home
- FaceTime Lisa
Requesting reminders
- Remind me to call mom
- Remind me to call my mom when I get home
- Remember to take an umbrella
- Remind me take my medicine at 6am tomorrow
- Remind me to pick up flowers when I leave here
- Remind me when I leave to call Jason
- Remind me to finish the report by 6
Checking Stocks
- What’s Apple’s stock price?
- What is Apple’s PE ratio?
- What did Yahoo close at today?
- How is the Nikkei doing?
- How are the markets doing?
- What is the Dow at?
Checking the Forecast
- What’s the weather for today?
- What’s the weather for tomorrow?
- Will it rain in Cupertino this week?
- Check next week’s forecast for Burlington
- What’s the forecast for this evening?
- How’s the weather in Tampa right now?
- How hot will it be in Palm Springs this weekend?
- What’s the high for Anchorage on Thursday?
- What’s the temperature outside?
- How windy is it out there?
- When is sunrise in Paris?
Looking up information
- Search the web for Bora Bora
- Search for vegetarian pasta recipes
- Search the web for best cable plans
- Google the war of 1812
- Search Wikipedia for Abraham Lincoln
- Search for news about the World Cup
- Bing Alicia Keys
- How many calories in a bagel?
- What is an 18% tip on $86.74 for four people?
- Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?
- How long do dogs live?
- What is the Gossamer Condor?
- What’s the square root of 128?
- How many dollars is €45?
- What was the Best Picture of 1983?
- How many days until Christmas?
- How far away is the Sun?
- When is the next solar eclipse?
- Show me the Orion constellation
- What’s the population of Jamaica?
- How high is Mt. Everest?
- How deep is the Atlantic ocean?
- What’s the price of gasoline in Chicago?..
