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iPhone App: Siri (iTunes Link - US Only)
This demo is extremely impressive, but unfortuntely the app is only available in the US so I can’t verify how well the voice rec works. It seems legit though.
From their website:
“Siri is the first mainstream consumer application of a Virtual Personal Assistant. Siri is an intelligent software agent designed to have a back-and-forth conversational interaction with you as it helps you get tasks done. The three main technical components behind Siri’s differentiation correspond to the essential qualities of an assistant: a conversational interface, personal context awareness and service delegation.”
Outsourced personal assistants like Ask Sunday are gaining in popularity, as are voice recognition features in mobile devices like Google Voice Actions (for Android), so it’s only logical that they could be combined into an app like this. Things are starting to feel all Star Treky all of the sudden.
