While Microsoft and Google are running around in circles trying to work out the best way to compete with Apple’s Siri service, a company called Tronton has launched the first real competitor for Siri on the Android platform. Called Cluzee, it’s dubbed as “your intelligent personal assistant”, which is a nice way of saying “your digital slave”. More »
One day, we’ll all expect our gadgets to respond intelligently to voice commands. But right now, with the exception of Siri, nothing really works very well. More »
A hacker group has successfully ported Siri over to jailbroken iPhone 4′s and 4th-gen iPod touches, marking the beginning of what could be a “whack a mole” response from Apple as it attempts to block the 4S’s “killer feature”. More »
So the story goes that at WWDC, the Nuance team working on Apple’s (still officially unconfirmed) voice control were surprised when their Dictation demo was swapped out at the last minute. Since then we’ve seen a leaked settings screen, even though the tech hasn’t been in any current iOS 5 betas. Until now it seems. New files reportedly uncovered in beta 5 indicate there will be a microphone option on the universal pop up keyboard. More »
Although it’s not currently available in the iOS 5 developer beta, a new leak has indicated a curious voice control feature called Assistant could be making its way into the mysterious iPhone 5 when it launches. More »
Back when Kinect launched in Australia, it was missing one very important feature in Australia – voice controls. Adam Pollington, Xbox Category Manager from Microsoft told us last November that it would be available by early Feb/late March, and was delayed due to the Aussie accent. Mark over at Kotaku has discovered that there seems to be something else causing the delay. More »
Apple’s Voice Control feature is decent, but aside from making calls and playing music, there’s not much else you can do. But now, this new jailbreak tweak can equip you with system-wide command over Voice Control, comparable to Android. More »
It’s worth telling you that the Australian Kinect doesn’t support voice control. As Kotaku reported back in September, Microsoft has decided that any region outside of America, the UK, and Mexico will have to wait until Autumn next year before voice controls work. Damn. More »
