Spell A Word To Siri

Now you can type it accurately even if you don t know where to begin great stuff.

Spell a word to siri. She will write what you say. After setting the phonetic first name make sure siri is enabled and then go to settings general keyboard. Then scroll down and hit add field.

Turn off dictation and then turn it back on again presumably this is needed to force the new name customization to be picked up. Tap and hold on the word string you want to spell out so that it s selected by ios when the pop up menu appears on screen choose spell note in some apps like pages you may need to tap the arrow button to show the spell options ios will spell out the word aloud character by character. This way you can stop looking for a confusing word and use this great siri spelling trick on any iphone mac or ipad that has siri enabled.

Type in the word or name in the way that you want it spelled as the first name. You can test your pronunciation by saying words to siri. Activate siri however you like double pressing the home button or invoking hey siri and ask siri to spell the word airplane and you ll hear airplane a i r p l a n e.

Siri will spell out the word and also define it for you. Start by heading into contactsand hitting the button to add a new entry. On screen you ll see the dictionary entry complete with the phonetic pronunciation and the definition.

Update november 2017 for ios 11. If the word does not match ask her how to pronounce the word you are trying to say and then try again. Call siri and then say spell word invite siri as usual whether you re using a hey siri handsfree a headset or holding the home button on an iphone or ipad a siri mac key or launching the siri menu bar on a mac so you can say anything.

Custom responses and informing siri of specific words or spellings is not possible at the moment but apple itself has stressed that siri is in beta status. If the word she writes matches what you said then she understood your pronunciation.