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ESRA: A Siri-Like Assistant For Older iOS 5 Devices
Let me preface this by saying that ESRA will be a disappointment to those who are expecting it to compete with Siri. Now that the disclaimer is out of the way, let’s talk more about this jailbreak...
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Why Apple Released Siri in Beta
Siri has garnered a lot of media attention over the last month. Even hackers with intentions to port the digital assistant to other devices are making headlines. But along with all of the attention...
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TV Industry Scrambling to Beat Apple to the Punch
The rumor mill can be fairly accurate when it comes to predicting major Apple products. There was tons of gossip regarding an Apple smartphone for at least a year leading up to the iPhone...
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Google Working On Siri Clone Codenamed “Majel”
Google is reportedly working on its own version of Siri for upcoming Android devices. The project has been given the internal codename of “Majel” (a reference to Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the...
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How to Use Siri to Help You Shop for Gadgets
We’ve seen Siri do everything from turn on a fireplace to control a TV set, so there’s not much that Apple’s digital assistant can do at this point that would surprise us. But all of these tricks...
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‘Automatic Dictation’ Brings a Siri-Like Experience to Your iPhone
It’s not Siri. In fact, it’s not even close. Yet, you still may find it interesting enough to give it a shot, especially if you’re already a user of Voice Activator. Automatic Dictation is essentially...
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Apple is Dreaming Up Wearable Computers That Talk to the iPhone and Use Siri
In a world where we all stare at our iPhone screens while walking around in public, Apple is working on the next-generation of mobile computing: wearable technology. The latest iPod nano can be worn...
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Shows Off Voice-Controlled iOS App
It looks like Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is a self proclaimed “Siri-holic” after the streaming outfit’s head man waxed lyrical about his love for Apple’s digital assistant. But that’s not all. During an...
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‘Hands-Free Control’ Takes Siri to the Next Level
The potential is startling. Once you play with Hands-Free Control in a true Siri environment on the iPhone 4S, it really hits you how much potential jailbreaking adds to Siri. Truly, the sky’s the...
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OpenSiri: Launch Apps Natively Using Siri
Didn’t we tell you? The floodgates are opening for Siri tweaks now that the iPhone 4S jailbreak is available. OpenSiri is among the Siri tweak freshman class, and it allows you to launch stock Apple...
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Will Apple kill Evi over Siri? [Updated]
It looks as if things are becoming quite crowded and heated in the “virtual assistant” space. A recent TechCrunch report says that Apple is planning to remove Evi from the App Store because it...
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Apple’s Siri and Samsung’s S-Voice go head to head (video)
The Verge was first out of the gate today with its exhaustive review of Samsung’s Galaxy S III handset. A section of the piece provides an interesting side-by-side comparison of two intelligent...
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Nuance launches Dragon ID: phone unlock using your larynx
Nuance, the natural voice processing engine that powers voice recognition in Apple’s Siri digital assistant, recently announced the Drive! platform, basically the Siri for cars. Today, the company...
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Google unveils Android 4.1, complete with Siri competitor and more
Apple kicked off this month with its WWDC keynote, unveiling the next version of its mobile operating system: iOS 6. Then Microsoft quickly followed with its Windows Phone 8 announcement. And now it’s...
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Future Motorola phones will recognize who is in a room based on their voices
Upcoming smartphones from Motorola Mobility, now a Google-owned entity, will be able to determine who is in a room by employing some pretty advanced voice recognition techniques. Under Google’s...
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CEO confirms Siri uses Nuance voice recognition tech
In the months leading up to 2011’s WWDC event, there were numerous reports that Apple would announce a major partnership with voice recognition giant Nuance. Obviously, the gossip never materialized,...
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Facebook acquires speech recognition firm Mobile Technologies
Facebook has announced this afternoon that it has acquired Mobile Technologies, a private company that develops speech recognition and machine translation technology. The move reiterates the social...
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GoogolPlex will ‘unleash the power of Siri’ with Nest, Philips Hue, Spotify...
Siri within iOS 7 can be limited sometimes, thanks to Apple’s “walled garden”, but a new tool called GoogolPlex wants to change that by opening the voice assistant to new commands. Self described as...
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How to enable Enhanced Dictation in OS X for streaming speech-to-text with...
OS X includes a nifty Dictation feature which allows you to control your Mac and apps with your voice. You can use “speakable items”, basically a set of spoken commands, to open apps, choose menu...
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How Apple’s advanced self-learning technologies could make Siri a lot smarter
The assistant wars are in full swing, with Google Assistant and Viv entering the fray and existing players such as Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Hound and Google’s Now all stepping up fight for...
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