Siri enables you to speak commands to your phone/tablet and have it do your bidding. You activate Siri by holding down the Home button on the iPad itself, or by holding down the control button on your earphones. Siri is faster and more reliable than ever with iOS 7. The iPad’s voice-recognition feature works by recording your voice and sending it to a server that interprets what you’ve said and returns plain text. If you don’t have an internet connection, Siri won’t work. See also: Funny things to ask Siri in the UK Siri is a massive leap forward over old-fashioned speech recognition. This used to require a strict vocabulary and couldn’t do very much. Worse still, for non-Americans, voice recognition struggled with European, Australian and other accents. Siri doesn’t require a strict vocabulary, and it’ll generally figure ou
