Why Siri - a virtual assistant - is possible
Siri co-founder and CTO Tom Gruber on turning your iPhone into a personal conciergeWe're a long way from Ask Jeeves, the butler assistant that helped you search and find stuff on the Web. Siri, which recently came out of stealth mode, is a virtual assitant on the iPhone. Sure, it's not super sophisticated to be able to organize your child's birthday party. But it's the closest thing to a real assistant that you can talk to that I've ever seen.The free iPhone app, which applies speech-to-text and text-to-intent technology to Web services, such as Yelp, OpenTable, ticket reservation systems, Google Maps, etc., helps consumers get tasks done. It will be available in private beta to a select few (tens of thousands) in August. If you don't have an iPhone, don't worry. Siri will ... [http://vator.tv/n/8fa read more]
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