Rumor: New iOS 5.1 Update To Include Several Siri Improvements
Additional Siri features coming to iOS in the iOS 5.1 update.
Additional Siri features coming to iOS in the iOS 5.1 update.
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Applidium has announced it has cracked the protocol used for Apple’s voice recognition service, Siri. As the result, the company was able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device for the first time.
Orchestra is a beautifully designed and executed task manager for the iPhone.
Technopathy is the ability to control machines with your mind. It is a superpower possessed by characters, such as Micah Sanders from the television show "Heroes," and Hank Henshaw, the Cyborg Superman. It isn't real, or it wasn't. The hackers at Project Black Mirror hope to turn this superhero fantasy into a reality.
In the United States, Siri’s voice is female. However, in the United Kingdom, Apple’s voice recognition software has a male voice who answers to the name of “Daniel.” Now, the person behind the voice is speaking out about how Siri came to be and about an interesting conversation he recently had with someone in Apple’s PR department, as reported by The Telegraph.
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Apple toyed with the idea of Siri on the iPhone 4, but they didn't have any fun.
Learn how to update your shared reminders list via Siri in this edition of The iOS Academy.
One of the top-selling VNC clients for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad has recently received a significant update. iTeleport 5.2 allows users to control their Mac using simple voice commands, according to news first published by MacStories.
The same team which late last month successfully ported Apple's voice recognition service, Siri, to the iPhone 4 have done it again. Steve Stroughton-Smith, chpwn, and Ryan Petrich have announced they have ported Siri to the iPhone 3GS as well, according to TiPb. While this news doesn't mean Apple will be putting its voice recognition service on the iPhone 3GS anytime soon, it does suggest it is possible to do so.
The former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, suggests that Apple’s new voice recognition assistant, Siri, could pose a “competitive threat” to his company’s popular search business. Schmidt made these comments during a meeting in September with U.S. Senators. However, those comments were just made available this week in written form, according to Cult Of Mac.
While you wouldn't know it from Apple’s latest marketing campaign, the Siri voice assistant service remains in beta. As such, it doesn’t contain some of the features that will likely be added in the future. Case in point, Siri is currently unable to launch third-party apps. However, there is a way to do this, according to iDownloadBlog.
If you were disappointed by the fact that Apple has made Siri an exclusive iPhone 4S feature, there is still some hope for you. We're hearing that there is still a chance that Apple will be bringing the feature to older iDevices such as the iPhone 4.
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If you've ever dreamt about having Siri do things to for you that it wasn't programmed to, you're in luck. One savvy GitHub developer has reportedly managed to hijack the network connection Siri uses to return his own custom responses.
It has been nearly a month since the first iPhone 4S’ made their way to households across the world. During this time, much has been made of Siri, Apple’s new voice assistant service that comes exclusively on the company’s newest handset. But, could using Siri actually cost you money due to bandwidth overages? Highly unlikely, according to a new report from Ars Technica.
On Saturday, we reported that jailbreak bigwigs chpwn and Steven Troughton Smith had successfully ported Siri to the iPhone 4 and an iPod touch. However, that doesn’t mean we can expect to see the service on these iDevices anytime soon – either through a jailbreak or via Apple itself.
Siri and Wolfram Alpha really are the perfect combination. There's nothing I love more than asking my iPhone random, impossibly-difficult mathematical questions and having the software present me with an answer. However, if you thought Wolfram Alpha was all about math, think again - because the service can provide users with more than just square roots, multiplications and currency conversions.
The last full week in October wasn’t nearly as eventful as the first three. Still, there was some news. Here are five of the best.
Good news, jailbreakers: Siri services are up and running on both the iPhone 4 and fourth-generation iPod touch.
In the first edition of the iOS Academy we teach you step by step how to blog using Siri.
Apple claims that Siri is compatible with English when spoken by native members of the UK, along with several other countries and languages. However, since the launch of iPhone 4S countless Scottish Apple fans have been reporting that talking to Siri is kind of like talking to somebody who is incredibly hard of hearing.
ThinkGeek's Iris 9000 will allow you to interact with Siri from across the room, all while making sure your iPhone is charged whenever you need to head out.