Siri

The Siri is apple in its product iPhone 4S using a voice control function. Siri can make iPhone4S into an intelligent robot, the use of Siri users through mobile phone SMS read, introduce restaurants, weather, speech set the alarm clock. Siri can support natural language input, and can call the system comes with the weather forecasting, scheduling, search information application. Also can learn the new sounds and intonation, with dialogue.

Technology source

Siri technology from the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Project Agency published by the CALO program: a simplified treatment of some complicated military affairs, and learning, organization as well as cognitive digital assistant, which derived from the civilian version of the software Siri virtual personal assistant. [1 ]

Function

Siri can do, sounds quite general, user through voice, text input method, to search for restaurants, cinemas and other information, can also direct viewing of the related comments, or even direct booking, booking; in addition to its adaptability ( location based ) service ability is quite strong, can according to user the default home address or location to judge, filter search results.

However, its biggest characteristic, is the human-computer interaction terms, not only have very vivid dialogue interface, the user asks for the given answer, also not give an irrelevant answer, sometimes is to let people have a heart Lingxi surprise, for example if the user input in say, include "drunk."," home." these words (not even with the grammar, a human ... ), Siri will be judged to be drunk, want to go home, and automatically whether the proposal to call a taxi.

But the only pity is, the software is currently only supports English, other relevant information is also limited to Native American, but the entire software concept, can be said to be quite interesting, but still free.

Support: Siri phonetic system currently supports English, French and German, but which is still in the testing phase, the Chinese support may not be ideal, the future will add more language support.

Siri technology and voice control difference

When it comes to control of speech recognition technology, we have to mention the Android system Voice Actions, this is also a great voice control technology, and has been in many Android users are familiar with and use. But it and Siri is not a level of the product.

Voice Actions provides a very solid and reliable voice recognition engine, its high degree of identification". However, and past all the voice command system, it requires you to have strict grammatical structure and format, otherwise the system will not recognize.

However, Siri and Voice Actions have essentially different. You can discard the cumbersome grammatical structure, even thinking mode can also be confused, Siri will be combined with contextual structure to understand human language, it will be from the point of view of the history, the use of artificial intelligence system to analysis, and in most cases the grasp your meaning.

And more user-friendly features is, once you start and Siri into a dialogue, it can even understand many ambiguous or extended semantic. Voice Actions can't do such a thing, because it is only a voice command software, instead of artificial intelligence.

Speech recognition is not revolutionary. Years ago, IBM speech recognition software on PC has good recognition rate.

Based on the speech recognition, a simple intelligent analysis and system functions of the call is not revolutionary. Both Google Voice Action, or Vlingo and other independent companies, to do good.

However, from the current flows out of the video, Siri is not a simple combination of the known technology.