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Apple confirms Siri support for Japanese on iOS 5.1

, Mar 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple has just confirmed what we've suspected from a few leaks in the past that its Siri intelligent voice-controlled assistant will be supporting the Japanese language. The new language capability will be introduced on iOS 5.1, which will be available to some markets starting today and then rolled out over the next few weeks to Japan. Read The Full Story

Google wants Assistant to be its Siri

, Mar 3rd 2012 Discuss [76]

Google doesn't like to be one-upped by Apple, but by any account that's sort of what happened when the Siri voice recognition platform was introduced. The technology, currently available only on the iPhone 4S, is likely to be heading to other impending Apple devices and is already one of the big trends to watch in 2012. Google wants a piece of that action. Read The Full Story

Why I’ll Never Talk to My TV – And Why You Shouldn’t Either

, Mar 1st 2012 Discuss [44]

With all the talk surrounding the Apple TV dominating discussions around Cupertino, I thought it’d be a good time to think about some of the features reportedly making its way to that set. Chief among them is Siri, Apple’s virtual personal assistant.

According to the latest reports, Siri would allow Apple TV owners to give all kinds of voice commands, including change the channel, modify volume, open applications, and more. By all measure, it would be like having the same iPhone-based Siri experience on a big television in your living room.

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Siri is your new Mercedes-Benz copilot

, Feb 28th 2012 Discuss [4]

Apple's Siri digital personal assistant is set to show up on the dash of select Mercedes-Benz models, with the news that the A-Class COMAND system is getting an upgrade for improved iPhone 4S interconnectivity. Dubbed "Drive Kit Plus for iPhone" the system allows users to navigate through their iTunes library via the A-Class' Controller in the armrest, together with trigger Siri spoken voice commands to locate services, contact people in your address book, fire off text messages and more. Read The Full Story

Motorola with Android Voice Actions battles Siri in comparison video

, Feb 27th 2012 Discuss [22]

Motorola has decided to take a jab at Apple's Siri intelligent voice assistant app by pitting it against Android's Voice Actions feature running on an Atrix 2, Photon 4G, and Electrify. In all three comparison videos, Siri gets beat down complete with the knockout bell sound effects. However, the video does come direct from Motorola, not exactly an unbiased source, so some rigging or editing isn't completely out of the question. Continue after the cut to watch and judge for yourself. Read The Full Story

Apple may ban Evi app based on similarity to Siri

, Feb 27th 2012 Discuss [9]

Apple is in the process of banning an app called Evi for being too similar to its own intelligent voice assistant app, Siri. It's been reported over the weekend that Apple representative Richard Chipman called the app's developer, True Knowledge, on Friday to notify the company. Evi may be pulled for breaching one of the App Store's guidelines involving apps that appear "confusingly similar to an existing Apple product." Read The Full Story

Google TV adding Siri-like voice controls

, Feb 20th 2012 Discuss [14]

Google may be taking a page from Apple's Siri voice-controlled assistant feature for its future Google TVs. A patent application newly unearthed by Patently Apple reveals that Google is developing a Siri-like interface for Google TV that will introduce a variety of capabilities involving voice commands remotely sent to Google TVs via Android devices. Read The Full Story

iPad 3 Retina Display allegedly confirmed

, Feb 17th 2012 Discuss [12]

The most persistent rumor for Apple's next-gen iPad is the use the introduction of high-resolution Retina Display similar to what's been offered on the company's latest iPhones. And today, more claims support the rumor with an close-up examination of what's allegedly the display component of an iPad 3. Read The Full Story

iOS 5.1 GM leak confirms Japanese Siri & camera shortcut

, Feb 17th 2012 Discuss [1]

Siri's incoming Japanese skills have apparently been confirmed, with a leaked copy of the iOS 5.1 Gold Master showing the new language addition in the settings menu, as well as a tweaked iPhone lockscreen. Hints of Siri's new linguistic abilities had been shown earlier in the week, when the virtual personal assistant itself began confirming Japanese was supported, and BGR's access to a leak of the GM 5.1 release confirms it. Read The Full Story

Siri tips her own Japanese language skills

, Feb 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

It seems Siri has been fooled, quite easily, into admitting that she can now speak Japanese. Siri, the Apple voice-activated assistant on the new iPhone 4S, had been tipped earlier this month to gain Chinese, Japanese, and Russian language support in an update believed to be coming in March. Siri herself is now confirmed that Japanese language support is coming. Read The Full Story

Siri update may be for iPad 3

, Feb 14th 2012 Discuss [1]

Apple has tossed a brand new wrench into the gears of your iDevice hacking dreams, this time cutting out all devices from using Siri and her servers if you do not have the iPhone 4S. This device is currently the only device approved by Apple to use Siri, but as thousands of Siri-hungry Apple fans out there will tell you, they want it everywhere! Apple has released a brand new stopper for this situation so that the iPhone 4S is the only device that can Siri the night away, it being a simple token in the software that detects your device in so many words - on the other hand, this "fix" could just be to allow in the upcoming iPad 3. Read The Full Story

HTC Endeavor ROM hints at HTC Speak potential Siri rival

, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [9]

The HTC Endeavor continues to give up its secrets, with diagrams of the upcoming smartphone along with hints of an "HTC Speak" potential Siri-rival being dragged from the leaked ROM. Curiously, although the quadcore Tegra 3 based Endeavor is believed to be the same as the HTC Edge, the graphics used in the ROM as part of the SIM-insertion sequence show the angular Android device leaked last week. Meanwhile, HDBlog's digging has apparently unearthed a movie editing app - and not the regular Google one - along with HTC Speak, a voice command system. Read The Full Story
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