Afraid that its crown as king of search will be stolen by a new breed of voice-led search engines led by a Wolfram|Alpha-powered Siri. Apple’s Siri has a bit of a head start when it comes to creating usable interfaces and platforms that place...
Comparisons to Apple’s natural language voice recognition app and search tool Siri aren’t unexpected, especially given Google’s acquisitions of speech synthesis company Phonetic Arts and Clever Sense, makers of the virtual personal assistant Alfred.
Upon hearing that Stephen Colbert asked Siri to 'write the show' for him, because he had been playing with the voice recognition technology so much that he had forgotten to script his own show, I thought to myself, "hell yeah, I can relate to that.
As the iPhone 4S is released, featuring the Siri personal voice assistant that understands what you mean when you talk, it's clear that smartphone technology is stepping forward. EMarketer has released analysis of mobile ad spending that predicts...
