Apple’s new iPhone 4S puts amazing Siri personal assistant at user’s beck and call (with video)
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 · 6:52 pm · 54 Comments
“Apple demonstrated an intelligent voice recognition app called Siri that turns the upcoming iPhone 4S into a personal assistant,” Marguerite Reardon reports for CNET. “The app, which uses natural language, is still in beta tests. But it will likely become a feature on the soon-to-be-released iPhone 4S.”
“By simply holding down the home or ‘I’ button on the device, users can launch the app and be given a list of commands that will allow them to play songs, call people, create text messages, set up meetings, reminders, directions and dictate emails by simply speaking at their phones,” Reardon reports. “Other commands that can be activated by voice are checking the weather and stock prices, setting alarms, looking up addresses, writing notes in the Notes app and searching the web.”
Reardon reports, “Part of what makes the app so advanced and unique is its ability to use natural language and to respond in that natural language back to users… Scott Forstall, head of Apple iOS, demonstrated how the app could do even more advanced things, such as remind him to do things. He said, “Remind me to call my wife when I leave work.” And then Siri asks, ‘Here’s your reminder for when you leave work. Shall I create it?’”
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