Siri Brings A PA To Your iPhone

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Siri is a new iPhone app that uses an advanced voice recognition system to respond to your requests, and help you out in day to day life.

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Siri Assistant is based on technology developed by the startup Siri, a company incubated by the Stanford Research Institute that enjoyed at least partial DARPA funding.

To use Siri, you just ask it with help over a number of different service tasks. It can tell you what’s going on in a neighborhood, call you a cab, find a specific restaurant, or book you tickets to a movie showing. It uses GPS, speech recognition, and a whole bunch of cool software and services to make the whole thing fit together. The app is free to download, as the company makes its money by receiving a small fee for any financial transactions over its service.

The official write-up for the app mentions that it is “built for 3GS phones”, so people using older phones may have trouble with the app.



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