If you absolutely must send a text message while driving, you may be no better off using Siri or other voice software than …
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Why I Won’t Be Using Google’s New iPhone Voice Search
Google’s search app for iPhone just got a big upgrade, with improved voice search that supports natural-language questions, just like Apple’s Siri. Yet, I don’t see myself using it.
10 Essential iPhone Tips, New and Old
The iPhone is known for its simplicity, but not everything about it is obvious. Beyond its straightforward grid of apps lies plenty of tricks that make Apple’s phone easier to use. Here are 10 essential iPhone tips and tricks, …
Voice Recognition’s Future: Hands-Free Siri Could Someday Be Possible
Controlling your phone by voice is great, but it’d be even better if you could do it without ever laying hands on the device.
Nuance Communications, the maker of Dragon dictation software, is working on it, according to a …
Report: Foxconn Chief Reveals Details About Apple ‘iTV’ Set
It looks like we might finally have some solid intel on Apple’s iTV and not from some anonymous “people with familiar with the matter.” This news appears to come directly from Foxconn chief Terry Gou, the man whose factories …
Five Things Siri Still Needs
Depending on how you look at it, Siri is either really helpful or limited in its usefulness.
A new survey by Parks Associates found that 87 percent of respondents who own an iPhone 4S use at least one feature of Apple’s …
Apple Left Siri Off the New iPad Because Siri’s Not Ready for It
Pick up a new “resolutionary” iPad this Friday and one thing you won’t be able to do is ask it when the world will end (hint: not in 2012), what the meaning of life is, or whether Google makes better phones. That’s because it …
New Translation Software Lets You Speak 26 Different Languages
Forget Rosetta Stone — researchers at Microsoft have developed a program that uses speech recognition software to translate what someone is saying into another language using a modified version of the person’s own …
Why Microsoft and Google Fear Apple’s Siri
Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
Siri for Android? New App Fools Users in Android Market
Siri for Android is here! At least that’s what more than a 1,000 Android owners thought as they downloaded the app from the Android Market.
In reality the app is simply a shortcut to launch Google’s Voice Actions, which comes …
Legal ‘Spire’ Hack Puts Siri on Jailbroken iOS 5 Devices
Forget all those illicit, convoluted hacks that let you kind-of-sort-of put Siri on your iPhone or iPod Touch — how about one that not only works, but does so without violating copyright law?
It’s called Spire, and it still …
Report: New iPhone 4 Siri Hack May Not Break the Law
Some Apple blogs are reporting that copyright infringement is no longer required to install Siri on an iPhone 4. It’s a dubious claim, but even if it was true, it doesn’t bring us any closer to a practical, working hack.
iOS …
