The Halo-inspired AI will reportedly follow Google into creepy-useful territory.
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Tech Finds Its Voice: The Future of Virtual Assistants
Someday, just about anything and everything will have a brain of some kind. But what about a voice?
Voice of Siri Reveals Herself — And Why the iPhone “Assistant” Sounds So Snippy
“When I first discovered that was my voice, to be honest it was a little creepy.”
Microsoft May Be Readying a Siri-like Virtual Assistant Called ‘Cortana’
It’ll reportedly have a Google Now-like ability to anticipate what you need.
30-Second Tech Trick: How to Get Siri Riled Up About Google Glass
Siri’s Glass sass is unsurpassed.
Texting and Driving with Siri Might Not Be So Safe
If you absolutely must send a text message while driving, you may be no better off using Siri or other voice software than you would typing the message by hand.
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 …