In the IPHONE 4S review I talked about SIRI, the voice recognition system which not only provides an edge to IPHONE over other smart phones but also amazes us with its extremely intelligent protocols. SIRI’s ancestral form was made available for free to all IPHONE users as Dragon Natural Speaking; this is when something got into Apple’s mind, which caused them to buy out this product and now make it available to us as SIRI with all IPHONE 4S and guess what, this venture seems to be the most successful one.
SIRI has been built into iOS5 and leaves all the speech recognition software behind. It has the capability of noise reduction and catching the voice of user even if you are trying to test it in a very noisy surrounding. Just think about the perfection it will achieve if you are trying to use it in a silent environment. By the way, I think it will be insane to try to use your speech activated device in a crowd. Isn’t it?
It is easy to activate SIRI on an IPHONE 4S. Just press and hold the home key and here comes SIRI prompting you to order it what to do next! So, you have your own robot keeper to keep up with everything you want your iOS5 to do. In short it is more like a very loyal lover who takes good care of all your needs. That was a pathetic similarity but I can’t help talking good about this wonderful inclusion in Apple’s apps.
Once proclaimed, everything is stored! This can be the bottom line for SIRI. You don’t need to repeat things again and again. For the first time, probably it will ask you to specify your selections but the next try will be easier. For example, if you wish to call your wife who uses more than 4 numbers (I think you should keep a check on her if she does this!), out of which one has her default availability; you need to say, “Call Wife”. SIRI will display all the 4 numbers. Select the one on which you always make a call. SIRI will give her a call and store the number as default number whenever you ask it to call your wife. So, the next time SIRI hears the command, it automatically calls the same number. Now, isn’t that intelligent!
This happens for everything; whether you want to view map of your city or want to find the best place to shop in a city; one prompt and the next time, a smaller prompt.
SIRI does everything which you want your voice controlled app to do. It converts speech to text so you can easily text and email by just dictating everything. It helps you to track places on GPS by saying amidst traffic where you cannot stop your car to type and find the correct route. Of! Course it will make your calls too.
Apple calls SIRI in its beta phase. I suppose it is just because of some funny responses received by SIRI sometimes. When you ask SIRI if it loves you by saying, “Do you love me?” it responds by saying, “I respect you!” This according to me is great fun. A person like me can spend hours with it, asking and getting funny replies. But according to some other geeks, this should be improved. Let us see!
SIRI will rule the hearts of every IPHONE 4S user in coming months for sure!
GG’s Apple App rating: ***** (it is the most wonderful thing to happen).
