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Old June 6th 19, 02:37 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Duane[_2_]
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On 06/06/2019 8:54 a.m., Rolf Mantel wrote:
Am 06.06.2019 um 14:14 schrieb Duane:

You can listen or talk on a radio without looking at it.Â* Same with a
phone.Â*Â* Especially if you have some hands free device as most cars
do now.
But you can’t text without looking at it.


Well actually you can send text by voice using Siri on iPhone and
there's probably some app that reads it.


Siri can do that as well
https://www.dummies.com/consumer-ele...r-texts-aloud/
(and with the appropriate in-car integration, without needing to touch
the home button).

I have sat in a car as a passenger when the driver was texted by his
wife and sent an answer via Siri.Â* Needed a few repetitions to get the
right text but still simpler than ringing her to pass the estimated
arrival time.


It was the syntax for Siri to send the text. I had to say "send a
message to ... as Siri didn't understand "text ..."
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