March 22nd, 2013
Esquire has released a new iOS app that will allow users to interact Siri-style with the magazine’s columnists. The free Talk With Esquire app uses speech recognition technology and a Q and A format...
February 14th, 2013
SRI, the research institute that helped to give Siri to the world, has created a new smart calendar app. The Tempo Smart Calendar app for iOS is, like Siri, based on the personal assistant model. However,...
February 13th, 2013
Winston, a new “speech-enabled personal assistant” that will tell you what is happening in the news and on social networks, has gone live on the App Store. The iOS app first launched as a five-day...
January 31st, 2013
Honda US is to integrate Siri Eyes Free into its new Accord, Acura RDX and Acura ILX models later this year as a dealer installed option. The company said that car owners with an iPhone running iOS6 would...
January 25th, 2013
Amazon has bought Ivona, the Poland-based company which provides text-to-speech technology for its Kindle devices. The move has, inevitably, brought talk of a Siri for Kindle, building on the rather limited...
November 9th, 2012
Desti, often billed as “Siri for travel”, has launched its first app, a guide to California’s Bay Area for iPad. The app comes from SRI International, which sold Siri to Apple in 2010. The Siri comparison...
October 31st, 2012
It’s not been a good few weeks for Siri: first the service was found to be directing Chinese users to brothels (since fixed), now it has a serious competitor in the new Google Search app for iOS, which...
August 8th, 2012
A grand claim, we admit, and one that will only be proven right or wrong once we’ve played with Winston a bit more. But the app, launched as a “5-day preview” in the US App Store only,...
August 7th, 2012
We’re still waiting to see what a Siri API might do for iOS apps, but one of the companies behind that, Nuance, now has a separate initiative on the boil. It’s called Nina, and is a suite of...
