wraggster
October 23rd, 2011, 12:03
Of all the upgrades that distinguish the new iPhone 4S from its predecessors, probably the feature that's gotten the most attention is the voice-based personal assistant app called Siri, which allows a user to accomplish certain tasks almost entirely by voice. A few days ago, as reported by TechCrunch, a team of Android developers has come up with an Android equivalent to Siri called Iris (http://gizmodo.com/5851896/iris-for-android-kind-of-like-siri-but-for-android) (spell that backwards), and that it took them only 8 hours (http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/17/iris-is-sort-of-siri-for-android/) to have a working, if imperfect, app to play with and submit to the Android Market (http://blog.dexetra.com/iris-improved-goes-live-on-android-market). This
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy5_4LNbrwo&feature=related says the app is unpolished, but shows promise. For now, it generates some accurate results, and some amusing ones.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/22/2219258/siri-envy-iris-brings-some-voice-assistant-features-to-android
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy5_4LNbrwo&feature=related says the app is unpolished, but shows promise. For now, it generates some accurate results, and some amusing ones.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/22/2219258/siri-envy-iris-brings-some-voice-assistant-features-to-android