Apple introduces voice recognition app

October 4, 2011, 2:23pm PDT | Length: 00:03:25
Apple's Scott Forstall shows off Siri, the company's new voice recognition-enabled personal assistant for the iPhone 4S. The new software will allow you to ask for help and will respond back to you in human-like language.

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Apple introduces voice recognition app

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>>Man: Siri is your intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking. Dings What is the weather like today?

>>Siri: Here's the forecast for today.

>>Man: It is that easy Cheers and applause. The exact words I say aren't important; it's the meaning behind the words. So I could ask this in a completely different way. Do I need a raincoat today?

>>Siri: It sure looks like rain today Laughter.

>>Man: Dings Read my message.

>>Siri: Dings New message from Phil Schiller. When can we have lunch?

>>Man: So it reads it hands-free to me.

>>Siri: You can reply or read it again.

>>Man: So before I reply, I think I want to have lunch on Friday. Hands-free now I can just ask Siri about my calendar. I can ask it, Dings do I have any meetings Friday at noon?

>>Siri: Dings You don't have anything on your calendar for this Friday at 12 PM.

>>Man: Fantastic. So let me go ahead and reply to Phil now that I can make it. Dings Reply I can do Friday.

>>Siri: Dings Here's your reply to Phil Schiller.

>>Man: Dings Remind me to call my wife when I leave work.

>>Siri: Dings Here's your reminder for when you leave work. Shall I create it?

>>Man: Sure, let's confirm that.

>>Siri: Okay, I'll remind you.

>>Man: So again in an earlier conversation, it asked who my wife was and now it knows. And so I just say remind my wife. It's now setup a geo-fence around work, in this case, Apple for me. When I leave Apple, it'll put up an alert reminding me to call my wife. Dings Now here's all those sorts of things you can do with Siri. You can voice dial. So call someone just by saying their name. You can control your music; you can control playing an artist or an album. But now, you can also play any song you want including any song you might have in iTunes in the cloud and it'll download it and start playing it for you, or even a genre. You can say please play some rap music for me, play some classical music and it'll automatically start playing that for you. You can use it for messages, send and receive text messages, iMessages. You can manage your calendar now with your voice, schedule meetings, check on meetings, move meetings around, cancel meetings, all just with your voice. It's integrated with reminders as you saw, and with maps. You can ask for traffic and directions. E-mail, you can compose and dictate e-mails right to Siri. You can ask questions about the weather and about stocks. With a clock, there's a lot of things you can do in addition to things like the alarm clock. You can set timers. So let's say you stick something in the oven, you're going to bake it and needs to take it out in 30 minutes. Just take your phone and ask Siri to set a timer for 30 minutes and you're done. You can look up things for contacts, you can create notes, you can search the web, you can search Wikipedia and all of the other questions you can ask of Wolfram Alpha. It is absolutely

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