Ever since an excerpt from Steve Jobs biography revealed that he felt that he had finally cracked integrated Television sets, the chatter about Apple possibly releasing Televisions sets has got louder.
It had led to speculation that Apple may be building a television set, which could include Siri for extensive voice control rather than the conventional remote control.
German site Macerkopf reports that Apple is working on iOS 5.0.2 to fix the bugs that is affecting iPhone battery life and iOS 5.1 to add more
Ever since Apple has introduced Siri – iPhone 4S’ revolutionary voice activated personal assistant feature, hackers have been in love with it.
They’ve ported Siri to non-iPhone 4S devices and hacked it to add custom commands. Folks at Applidium have now announced that they’ve hacked Siri’s security protocol.
If you thought Siri – iPhone 4S’ new voice activated personal assistant feature was revolutionary then checkout Project Black Mirror.
It is a project started by two guys who have figured out a way to give commands to Siri using brain waves and lot of hardware. So far they’ve managed to 25 brain waves to specific Siri commands.
Siri is one of the coolest features of the new iPhone 4S, and its “raise to speak” feature lets you activate it easily at any time. But how does it work?
iFixit figured out the answer to that question during the teardown of the device.
Folks at Evernote have figured out a way to use Siri – iPhone 4s‘ revolutionary voice activated personal assistant feature to dictate notes into Evernote account.
Andrew Sinkov has explained how to get Siri to work with Evernote on their blog:
After chpwn and Steve Stroughton-Smith managed to get Siri running on the iPhone 4, iOS developer Ryan Petrich with the assistance of the original porters managed to port Siri onto the iPhone 3GS.
After Andy Rubin played down the importance of Siri by saying no one wants to talk to their phone, Google chairman Eric Schmidt admitted that the voice based service could be used to over ride Google when searching for information. His statements came in a letter in response to questions raised by a senator about Google’s monopoly in the search business.
If you’ve bought iPhone 4S, you probably know by now that Siri is integrated with Wolfram Alpha – the computational knowledge engine. You can force Siri to use Wolfram by prefixing your request with “Wolfram.”
But the problem is, it doesn’t tell you what all you can do with Siri. iPhone expert and developer, Erica Sadun along with Steve Sande has released an ebook called “Talking to Siri” on the Kindle store, which teaches you how to use Siri from ground up.
Ever since Apple introduced Siri – the revolutionary voice activated personal assistant feature, one of the things that has been hotly debated is Apple’s decision to make the feature available exclusively on the new iPhone 4S, especially after hackers have proved that there is no technical reason why Siri can’t work on non-iPhone 4S devices by getting it to work on the iPhone 4, iPad and fourth generation iPod touch.
