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    Meet The Guy Who Helped Google Beat Apple’s Siri

    On May 13, 2013 · Add Comment

    For all the attention lavished on Siri, the often-clever voice-driven virtual assistant on Apple’s iPhone, Google’s mobile search app lately has impressed a lot more people. That’s partly thanks to Google Now, its own virtual assistant that’s part of that app, which some observers think is more useful than Siri.

    As I wrote in a recent article on deep learning neural networks, the technology tries to emulate the way layers of neurons in the human neocortex recognize patterns and ultimately engage in what we call thinking. Improvements in mathematical formulas coupled with the rise of powerful networks of [...]

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    Ask Siri to Play Artists on Spotify, No Jailbreak Required

    On March 14, 2013 · Add Comment

    Siri is great for controlling your iPhone when you can’t look down at your phone (like when you’re driving), but it doesn’t integrate with third-party apps very well. Blogger and developer Paul Lamere figured out a clever workaround that makes controlling Spotify with Siri a little easier.

    First off, you won’t get complete control over Spotify with this workaround, but it does make it so you don’t have to look down at the screen and peck out letters when you’re driving. Here’s what to do:

    Tell Siri to send a text message to (603) 821-4328 (you can enter this number in your phone as something like

    “Spotify” to make it [...]

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    Siri Your wish is its command.

    On February 26, 2013 By

    Siri lets you use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more.* Ask Siri to do things just by talking the way you talk. Siri is so easy to use and does so much, you’ll keep finding more and more ways to use it.

    It understands what you say. And knows what you mean.

    Talk to Siri as you would to a person. Say something like “Tell my wife I’m running late” or “Remind me to call the vet.” Siri not only understands what you say, it’s smart enough to know what you mean. So when you ask “Any good burger joints around here?” Siri will [...]

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    Rant: Siri Is Apple’s Broken Promise

    On February 20, 2013 By

    A long time ago, I made a pact with Apple: “You can control my entire technological life, from my computer to my phone to my stereo. I’ll pay premium prices. I’ll dive into your product ecosystem, and buy books and music and movies and apps from you. Even though they won’t work on devices made by anybody else.”

    In exchange for surrendering control and submitting to that heftier price tag, I expect Apple products to simply work. That’s all. If you use Apple products, I suspect you made a similar bargain.

    And so when I first saw the ads for Siri, I expected something remarkable, like I always do [...]

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    iPhone 4S: What can you say to Siri?

    On February 17, 2013 By

    Curious about the iPhone 4S’s new voice assistant feature? So were we.

    TUAW tracked down a set of example phrases that the new Siri voice assistant is capable of understanding. It turns out that Siri can handle many categories of voice interaction.

    Without further ado, here they are, ordered by interaction category, along with Apple-supplied examples of using each category

    Address Book

    Querying Contacts

    What’s Michael’s address? What is Susan Park’s phone number? When is my wife’s birthday? Show Jennifer’s home email address

    Finding Contacts

    Show Jason Russell Find people named Park Who is Michael Manning?

    Relationships

    My mom is Susan Park Michael Manning is my brother Call [...]
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    Meet Siri’s free, ultra smart cousin

    On February 16, 2013 By

    HOUSTON, Texas — If you feel like you’re always out of time and you need a personal assistant, a new app could be for you.

    Tempo Smart Calendar was just released this week. In its first day the reviews were so grand that its makers had trouble keeping up with the demand for registrations.
    Yes it’s free, but it’s only available for the iPhone.
    Tell Tempo where you need to be and when, and it scans your phone, the Web, and your e-mail to fill in the blanks.
    For instance, if you set a date to have lunch with someone, it puts in the contact info [...]

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    Update: Apple’s Siri (Finally) Hits The Road…In A Chevy

    On February 14, 2013 By

    Chevrolet officially wins the race to integrate “Siri,” the ubiquitous iPhone’s voice activated “intelligent assistant” into its model line, officially launching on February 13 on the youth-oriented Spark and Sonic models, or at least those fitted with the automaker’s MyLink infotainment system. Anyone who’s ever had to suffer through the erratic touchscreens and unnatural voice commands with which today’s overly complex automotive multimedia systems punish its users has likely pondered why they can’t be engineered to operate as intuitively as an iPhone, and Apple’s new “Eyes Free” feature helps bring that a step closer to fruition.

    Honda recently announced it would be offering the voice activated [...]

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    Siri’s New Stepbrother Winston

    On February 13, 2013 By
    Is Winston the robotic butler that our tech-addled society has been waiting for? No, writes Sam Schlinkert, it’s just an app that reads the day’s news to you in a British accent.

    There’s an Internet joke that the worst thing you can do to someone is leave him or her a voicemail. Why have information spoken to you after an unnecessary preamble when you could read a text? Because of this, I didn’t have high hopes for Winston, a new app released today by Reactor Labs. Winston is basically a digital assistant that reads the day’s news to you in a charming British accent.

    An [...]

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    While Siri Wise-Cracks, Google Defines Smart Local Search

    On January 17, 2013 By

    When Android 4.1 (aka “Jelly Bean”) arrived on my phone last spring*, I concluded that Android had finally produced an OS that is serious competition for Apple‘s iOS (more). The Google Now feature, which is built into Jelly Bean, impressed me deeply. Now makes use of the data that Google and your phone can gather about your daily life and uses it to serve up useful information, spontaneously, in a stream of cards that is accessed by tapping the search field, or swiping the open button up. For example, Now learns where you usually spend weekdays and evenings and [...]

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    Help Siri Pronounce Your Contact Names With Phonetic Spelling Hints

    On January 3, 2013 By

     

    As a person with a funkily spelled last name, at least for English speakers, I appreciate that Siri tries to say my name, but I never really assumed she could pronounce it correctly. If you’re having trouble with Siri’s pronunciation of any of your contact names, here’s an easy trick to get her to say it correctly.

    Tap on the Contacts icon on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, and tap into the contact you want to add a phonetic spelling to. Tap on the Edit button in the upper right hand corner, and then scroll to the very bottom of the contact info. Tap Add Field, [...]

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