Robin Williams is one of those comedians that has wit as quick as lightning. During his appearance on Ellen in late November to promote his new movie Happy Feet Two, he gave his best impersonation of Siri, everybody's favourite personal assistant. When Ellen brought up the subject of Siri and the iPhone, Robin went off...
Siri is being accused of having an antiabortion agenda -- at least in New York City and Washington, D.C.. When asked where to get an abortion, the beta personal assistant only produces results for pro-life centres or tells users that it has no knowledge of abortion clinics. Megan Carpentier, executive editor of The Raw Story, reports that Siri...
If you don't have an iPhone 4S, well, you don't have an iPhone 4S. And if you don't have an iPhone 4S, you don't have Siri (logic from Apple's TV commercials, duh). Well you don't need an iPhone 4S to make your own Siri conversations because iFakeSiri.com is here to do it for you. Just...
When Siri Proxy is combined with Apple's iPhone 4S exclusive digital voice assistant aka Siri, the possibilities become endless. We've already seen Siri being used to lock / unlock and even start a car as well as to fully control a television. Similarly, Siri controlled apps for iPhone and iPad have recently appeared on the App...
A new tweak called Siri0us has hit Cydia to allow you to bring Siri Dictation to your iPhone 4. On your jailbroken iPhone 4, just add the following repo to Cydia to download Siri0us: http://apt.if0rce.com Currently, Siri0us supports the following languages: ??/??(??) ??/??(??) English (United States) Deutsch (Europa) English (United Kingdom) Français (Europe) Italiano (Europa)...
We've seen some creative uses of Siri, such as being setup to control a car remotely. Now, a developer has used Siri Proxy to control his Plex Media player on his Apple TV. What is Siri Proxy? Siri Proxy is a proxy server for Apple's Siri "assistant." The idea is to allow for the creation...
A couple days ago we posted about the comments made by a Microsoft executive that Apple's voice offering in Siri is 'nothing special', and that it comes down to 'good marketing': People are infatuated with Apple announcing it. It’s good marketing, but at least as the technological capability you could argue that Microsoft has had...
FastPdfKit Reader is a free iPhone / iPad app available on the App Store downloadable as a universal binary which allows users to grab pdf from any source with standard rss feed. Today, the developers of the app have added support for Siri using Siri Proxy, a proxy server developed by hackers for Apple’s Siri assistant and have published a...
Brandon over at fiquett has figured out how to use Siri to control his car via the Viper Smart Start module installed inside his vehicle. I created a new ruby plugin that is used by plamoni's "Siri Proxy", a proxy server for Apple's Siri assistant. This proxy server allows for the creation of custom plugins...
Instead of acknowledging Siri's sheer brilliance, Microsoft's chief strategy and research officer Craig Mundie has told Forbes in an interview that Apple's iPhone 4S exclusive voice assistant technology is nothing special. He rather argued that Microsoft has had a similar capability in Windows Phones for more than a year, since Windows Phone 7 was introduced....
Starting from the very day iPhone 4S was unveiled, the never ending war of "hands-on reviews" began with all sorts of unboxing photographs and Youtube videos being shot and published all over the web. By now, there must be over a thousand reviews of the device, both by professionals and amateurs but among all those,...
We recently published a post showing how you can send group messages and emails with Siri, the digital voice assistant. Today, we'll show you how you can use Siri's voice dictation feature to dictate text to your Mac (via TUAW). All you need is an app on your iPhone 4S that allows you to access your...
