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Siri Voice Control Coming To iOS 5

Apple fans pleased with the changes in iOS 5 will be happy to discover voice control may be added to the mobile OS when it hits handsets later this year.

This tantalising rumour comes from a reliable source of Robert Scoble who claims Apple was not ready to reveal what it has been doing with voice recognition company Nuance and Siri, voice-controlled virtual personal assistant software that Apple acquired last year. This feature may will end up in iOS 5 and may be the next big thing Apple introduces when it releases iOS 5 in a few months. [Tech Crunch via BGR]

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    randomambling

    Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 12:53 PM

    The only thing left to conquer is the interface IMHO. All these touchy GUI’s are great, and a step onward from the Mouse, from the keyboard, from punched tape and from switches.

    But the day when we link an external machine seamlessly with a persons mind is the holy grail of control. If we can get the speech thing right (and it’s still far from good), we are off to a good start. Bring it on Apple.
    /randomambling

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    Nathan Adams

    Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 1:05 PM

    Voice control plus Siri’s personal assistant app plus Reminders in iOS 5 should combine for a seriously powerful, hopefully simple to use, organisational tool.

    Provided Apple doesn’t stagger the combination of these tools over a few years, which has been how they’ve played the game in the last few iterations.

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      ozoneocean

      Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 3:50 PM

      Well, almost all those updates are old, integral parts of Android (It’s interesting and good to see the influencing game come full circle), so if you ever want to try that stuff out, it’s out there are works pretty well :)

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    Andrew

    Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 11:58 PM

    Autocorrect + Voice control… hmmm.

    http://damnyouautocorrect.com/images/momtext.jpg

    Magically frustrating.

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    olearymo

    Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 12:44 PM

    People actually use voice control? Really? I find it so much easier to press a button.

    Method one: Press a button, say something that takes 1-2 seconds, wait for it to be recognised and take action.

    Method two: Press a button.

    (I have a Nexus One with all this voice crap, I just don’t get it or use it. If voice stuff really mattered, Nokia would have won).

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