Apparently Siri interfaces with Wolfram Alpha to retrieve more complex answers.
Siri voice recognition is nothing new!
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Voice recognition per se is not new, but the integration of this does seem pretty tight. For instance, a lot of the search phrases Apple suggest would work perfectly well in the Voice Search app I have on my Android phone, but things like "remind me to call mum when I get home" is pretty neat and not possible at all on Android to the best of my knowledge.
I usually scoff internally when Apple announce a "magical", "revolutionary" new feature that suffers from Emporer's New Clothes syndrome, but I have to concede that what they've seemingly done with voice recognition (and admittedly, we haven't seen it in action in reality yet) is genuinely superior to any other current voice-to-text service.
I usually scoff internally when Apple announce a "magical", "revolutionary" new feature that suffers from Emporer's New Clothes syndrome, but I have to concede that what they've seemingly done with voice recognition (and admittedly, we haven't seen it in action in reality yet) is genuinely superior to any other current voice-to-text service.
Originally Posted by slick1two:
“Yes as usual Apple will claim to have created a revolutionary and innovative application. Seems Siri is a major marketing ploy to help shift Iphone 4s, since it's a 4s exclusive (at least for the time being)
There is nothing new about Siri, Android have had Vlingo since the middle of last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0GRvOmJ5Mg Vlingo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNsrl86inpo Siri
Very little difference between the two. The next time Apple decide to sue another company for copying their innovations, they had better keep quiet, as they had done with the notifications pane, they are on a roll now. It's not so much they are also taking other's innovations, but passing it off as their own. Now that's what stinks!”
“Yes as usual Apple will claim to have created a revolutionary and innovative application. Seems Siri is a major marketing ploy to help shift Iphone 4s, since it's a 4s exclusive (at least for the time being)
There is nothing new about Siri, Android have had Vlingo since the middle of last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0GRvOmJ5Mg Vlingo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNsrl86inpo Siri
Very little difference between the two. The next time Apple decide to sue another company for copying their innovations, they had better keep quiet, as they had done with the notifications pane, they are on a roll now. It's not so much they are also taking other's innovations, but passing it off as their own. Now that's what stinks!”
Well it if worked it would have stole apples thunder, as many things would have many times...there were mp3 players before the ipod....there were smartphones before the iphone. They just were crap. Even the vlingo youtube video review is long winded poorly edited crap...gah.
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