Siri not sending iMessages or text messages

I can't seem to get Siri to send an iMessage or Text message on my iPhone 5 (Running iOS 7.0.3), when I try I get the "I'm really sorry about this error...".
I've tried the followign and nothing seems to work:
- Reset my network settings
- Tried on 3g/4g
- Tried on Wi-fi
- Reset my phone
- Restored iphone from iTunes back-up
- Reset and restarted phone with Siri off and turned it back on
Note: Siri sends iMessages perfectly on my iPad over my wifi network
Any help would be soooo appreciatted

I had the same problem.
Siri would transcribe the message correctly, but then come back with "I can't take any requests right now."
Although she could send an email, tell the time, shuffle all songs, or any other siri function,
she could not read or transcribe text messages.
AT & T iPhone support had me do some stupid resets, then recommended restoring the iPhone.   They said it was a "known issue."  and that this was the solution, but they could not tell why, other than that it was caused by an incomplete installation of IOS 7.  It was clear they were 1) lying, 2) reading from a flow chart and 3) lacking the training or intelligence to help me in any real way.
I checked into this solution in the support forums.  Many people had appeared to have tried this to no avail.
I didn't want to delete all of my text messages, but I took ten minutes to go back -- my text messages went all the way back to 2009 -- and dump the threads I didn't need; probably dumped 100 or more.
That fixed the problem; I could now get siri to read & send SMS messages.
My guess is that somehow, messaging memory/storage is conflicts with some kind of temp memory Siri needs to be able to perform any messaging functions.  Reducing the number of messages took the memory/storage below whatever the limit is.
It's theoretically possible that this problem could be caused by a corrupt SMS database and that deleting all messages would clear that.

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