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Nuance borrows Siri tech for mobile helpdesk assistant

, Jul 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

Nuance isn't content to let Apple's Siri and Jelly Bean's Google Now grab the voice interface spotlight; the company has a voice-controlled personal assistant of its own in the pipeline, Nina. Billed as having the potential to "change the face of mobile customer service forever," Nina isn't targeted at harried users wanting to set calendar appointments and call their spouses, but at companies hoping to put a more friendly, intuitive face on their product support. Read The Full Story

RIM’s BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha adds Siri-like voice command

, Jul 23rd 2012 Discuss [6]

After years of believing that it didn't need to follow in the footsteps of the iPhone or Android (because people obviously prefer mobile operating systems based on a 20-year-old platform), it looks like RIM is now going after the most talked-about feature of the iPhone - Siri. The new alpha version of BlackBerry 10 contains a similar voice-controlled assistant. Read The Full Story

Apple sued in China over voice recognition patents

, Jul 5th 2012 Discuss [5]

Apple’s legal troubles in China continue. This time Cupertino is being sued by a company called Zhi Zhen Internet Technology over voice recognition patents. Zhi Zhen claims it holds patents for a Chinese voice language assistant used for its Xiao i Robot service, and that Siri infringes those patents. There's quite a big gap between Siri's introduction in October and the lawsuit that's just been filed, although the company says it reached out to Apple back in May and heard no response. Read The Full Story

Samsung demands Apple’s Galaxy Nexus ban be frozen

, Jul 1st 2012 Discuss [83]

Samsung has appealed against the preliminary injunction blocking US Galaxy Nexus sales, arguing Apple cannot prove that iPhone market share is legitimately threatened by the Android phone. Apple secured the early injunction late last week, convincing a US judge that the Galaxy Nexus is likely to be found infringing on at least one of four patents the Cupertino company holds. However, Samsung insists that Apple's case fails to prove that the potential loss of market share caused by the third-gen Google phone is as "substantial" as the Federal Circuit's requirements. Read The Full Story

Jelly Bean Google Voice Search challenges Siri

, Jun 27th 2012 Discuss [10]

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has introduced a Siri-battling voice feature, a super-speed recognition tool that produces results in a streamlined infographic-style UI. The new GOogle voice search system can recognize naturally spoken queries, pulling up Wikipedia entries, Google Image Search results and other data. Best of all, it looks considerably faster than rival systems.

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HTC teases own Siri-like voice assistant app

, Jun 22nd 2012 Discuss [5]

HTC looks to be working on its own version of Apple's Siri intelligent voice assistant app. The Taiwanese manufacturer posted a teaser image today revealing both an odd sense of humor and a potential Siri rival. Posted to both Facebook and Twitter, the image depicts what appears to be HTC's own assistant app interacting with a dog. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone 8 opens up speech recognition to developers

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [4]

Windows Phone already had speech recognition, but now the company is opening up the speech platform to all developers. On stage at the Windows Phone Summit, Microsoft detailed how users would be able to have conversations with apps once integrated properly. The company demoed the technology with Audible, asking the app to search for a specific title then continuing from there. Read The Full Story

LG Quick Voice takes on Siri and Samsung S Voice

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [4]

LG has waded into the smartphone voice control market with LG Quick Voice, challenging Apple’s Siri and Samsung’s S Voice with its own rival service. The system – which will debut first on the LG Optimus Vu in late June – supports control of calls, SMS, contacts access, calendar, web search and more.

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Google’s Majel Siri competition fast-tracked

, Jun 19th 2012 Discuss [5]

This week it appears that someone at the Wall Street Journal has head from a reliable source that Google’s own Siri competitor – known internally as codename Majel – has had its development plans accelerated. What this could mean for you, the reader, is that we’ll see said competitor at the next big Google event, that being the developer event known as Google I/O coming up on the 27th of June. For those of you that don’t know, the codename for this project is a reference to Majel Barrett, also known Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek television series and – much more importantly – the voice of the ship’s computer as well.

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iOS 6 signals Apple legacy device drop-off

, Jun 13th 2012 Discuss [36]

For those of you that did not know, iOS 6 was revealed this week at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference 2012, and with it came news that several older model mobile devices, including the original iPad, would no longer be getting updates past version 5. Included in the update to Apple's latest mobile operating system are the iPhone 3GS, 4, and 4S, iPod touch models older than the 4th generation, and the iPad 2 and 3. Everything older than this will more than likely have service updates if bugs arise in the future with iOS 5, but they will not be traveling up unto the 6th iteration of Apple's mobile environment. Read The Full Story

Apple iOS 6 Beta download links go live

, Jun 12th 2012 Discuss [4]

For those of you out there with a taste for Beta-testing and a heart for developing, Apple has released the first wide-release version of iOS 6 to the public. This version is available to anyone with an Apple developer account and is available now at Apple's developer site, but will not be ready for prime-time for at least a few more weeks. This version of Apple's mobile operating system will work on most Apple mobile products but will not function on the oldest versions of the iPod touch or the original iPad. Read The Full Story

Apple WWDC 2012 Keynote video available now

, Jun 11th 2012 Discuss [1]

In case you somehow managed to not get enough details from our WWDC 2012 liveblog earlier today, in their usual fashion Apple has now posted the full WWDC 2012 keynote video online for your viewing pleasure. They had tons of exciting goodies to announce and we covered anything at everything this year. Read The Full Story
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