IPhone – way to make Siri listen properly

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When writing a message using Siri, the software will stop listening for the message at the slightest pause.

For example:

Me: Send a message to John

Siri: Okay, what would you like it to say?

Me: Hi John…

Siri: Okay, your message to John is "Hi John", would you like me to send it?

And this continued every time I left a pause to think what I wanted to say next.

Really annoying. Especially when driving or cycling.

Is there a way to make Siri wait and listen properly?

Best Answer

No - Siri currently has no way to program the pauses to detect when you are done speaking. You could have siri open notes and then use the dictation feature to dictate your thoughts with pauses using the keyboard command and then edit them and then finally push that composed thought to messages, but it defeats the ease of using siri to automate the sending of your message.

Without knowing your context (Are you driving and totally hands free? Are you without function of arms/fingers either temporarily or permanently?) it's hard to see if there's a solution to your end goal, but your short term solution is to change the way you interact with Siri to leave less pause. Perhaps just skipping the formality of "Hi John" and just blurt out what you need John to know/do.

Once you've trained yourself to get the main message sent you can work on tacking on "comma thanks so much exclamation point" (or period) or whatever you wish to humanize the main point that's about to be sent.