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The Wall Street Journal | February 5th, 2010
Siri Inc., whose technology was born out of the largest artificial-intelligence project ever launched, has released an application for the iPhone that company executives say will take voice-activated search to a new level.
USA TODAY | February 5th, 2010
Thanks to this terrific new app, my iPhone just got a little bit smarter and a lot more helpful....Best of all, it's free.
ABC15 | February 5th, 2010
Do you ever wish you could just ask your iPhone to do things for you instead of using all those applications? Why can’t we just talk to our phones instead of pressing all those virtual keys? Well now, there’s an app for that.
Fast Company | February 5th, 2010
As you can see, using Siri is a lot like talking to a really, really well-informed friend....It understands plain English commands, which can be spoken or typed (e.g., "Get me tickets to that Matt Damon movie"). It remembers personal details, so you never have to tell it more than once where, for example, "my office," "my apartment," and "my girlfriend's house" are.
Search Engine Land | February 5th, 2010
Stepping back, there are a number of “voice search” tools and services for mobile, including Google’s for the iPhone and Android, Bing for the iPhone and Windows Mobile, Vlingo, Nuance Dragon Search and others. This is something that at first blush resembles them but turns out to be quite different. It’s not a voice front end on top of SERPs; it goes much further.
GigaOM | February 5th, 2010
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” said Arthur C. Clarke. And that’s what Siri, a new virtual personal assistant that’s finally going live in the App Store after some sneak peeks last year, is going for.
Opus Reasearch | February 5th, 2010
Today the App Store in Apple’s iTunes site begins distributing Siri, a new app that transforms the iPhone into a “virtual personal assistant.”
TechCrunch | February 5th, 2010
Siri combines an impressive array of technologies and brings them together on the iPhone. These include natural language processing and semantic analysis.
New York Times | February 5th, 2010
This is intended for everyone to help in their menial tasks,” Mr. Kittlaus said, "not just for someone in a corner office.”
9to5 Mac | February 5th, 2010
Siri might be a breakthrough app for iPhone. You ask the app a question and it hits a database and sends you back what it thinks you are looking for.
Scoble/building43 | February 5th, 2010
The ultimate personal assistant allows you to find task-oriented information on the go, by connecting to the best services around the Internet, Siri is not a search engine; it is a do-engine.
Venturebeat | February 5th, 2010
Siri translates the request into "inexpensive Italian restaurants with open tables for 2 tomorrow at 7:00pm,” then returns a list of nearby restaurants in the appropriate price range from reservation service OpenTable.
ZDNet | February 5th, 2010
Siri guides the user along a path, making query formulation iterative and relatively painless, and ensuring that the application gets the information it needs.
Louis Gray | February 5th, 2010
For decades, many have dreamed of having a virtual assistant to answer our questions and do our bidding.
ReadWriteWeb | February 5th, 2010
Imagine if you could just talk to you phone and tell it to call you a taxi, reserve a table at your favorite restaurant or tell you what the weather in New York City will be like tomorrow. If you have an iPhone, you will be able to start doing that tonight.
Engadget | February 5th, 2010
Siri asks simple questions and reacts to your answers, and while it sadly seems to have lost some of its military feel since its DARPA days (bummer), it's a lovely companion to your happening lifestyle.
Mashable | February 5th, 2010
Siri helps people get things done by combining intelligent voice recognition with hooks into tons of different web services, making it easy for people to use their mobile devices to get things done.
Programmable Web | February 5th, 2010
A new iPhone app is trying to take the fiction out of Science Fiction. Movies have long portrayed people in the future speaking commands to computers.
New York Times | November 4th, 2009
By now we can probably all agree that the iPhone is the Model T, the Sputnik, the Lawrence Taylor of the mobile technology realm.
ReadWriteWeb | July 13th, 2009
Siri wants to enable a "person-centric world," rather than the device-centric one we have today. In other words, they want Siri to serve the user and act as an intermediary between the person and the device.
InternetNews.com | June 16th, 2009
Siri shows off its virtual personal assistant at the Semantic Web conference.
BusinessWeek | June 4th, 2009
Silicon Valley startup Siri last month introduced a service that puts sophisticated artificial intelligence in an easy-to-use form.
All Things D | May 28th, 2009
Many would-be augurs have been trying to pinpoint the moment the Artificial Intelligence overlord known as Skynet begins: some may one day point to the upcoming launch of Siri.
TechCrunch | May 27th, 2009
Siri brings a very advanced collection of technologies to create a virtual assistant that helps you perform tasks through a conversational, question-and-answer interface.
Twine | May 27th, 2009
An interview between Radar Networks Founder and CEO and Tom Gruber, Siri's CTO.
TechCrunch | May 27th, 2009
A new paradigm for using the Internet is about to begin: Virtual Assistants (VA's) are coming to a mobile device near you.
InformationWeek | May 27th, 2009
Do you remember the days when most execs had secretaries or assistants? I do, and it wasn't a terribly efficient set-up
Mercury News | May 27th, 2009
What could be one of the most significant advances in artificial intelligence in a decade is heading toward the iPhone App store this fall.
MIT Technology Review | March 31st, 2009
Siri selected to prestigious MIT Tech Review Top 10 emerging Technologies
New York Times | December 14th, 2008
Shouldn't your computer know a reasonable amount about your likes and dislikes?
Mashable | October 14th, 2008
Who says there isn't innovation going on? The project has been kept very hush-hush
ZDNet | October 13th, 2008
Silicon valley, stealth-mode startup, revealed a little more about itself overnight
CNET | October 13th, 2008
Over the last several years, the U.S. government has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in PAL
ReadWriteWeb | October 13th, 2008
Both Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer bring an impressive background of experience in the mobile and artificial intelligence industry
