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Apple beefing up Siri, speech and language teams with wave of new openings

Apple on Wednesday and Thursday opened up several job listings related to speech technology, Siri, and language recognition, suggesting intensified work on natural input for future products, AppleInsider has discovered.

Roger Fingas 11 years ago 12

Apple revamps Siri informational webpage with example interactions, fresh graphical style

Alongside Wednesday's iOS 8.3 rollout with expanded international support for Siri, Apple launched a redesigned expository webpage that helps explain how users can interact with the virtual assistant.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 8

Apple expands Siri support to 9 new countries, CarPlay to 6 regions

As part of its iOS 8.3 rollout on Wednesday, Apple flipped the switch on various Siri features in nine new countries, while adding CarPlay capabilities in select locales.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 8

Google announces 40 new third-party integrations for Siri competitor Google Now

Search giant Google on Friday revealed that it will allow select Android apps to integrate with Google Now — the company's answer to Apple's Siri digital assistant — allowing users of services like AirBnB, Pandora, and Lyft to pull that data into Now.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 71

Review: Mobile Home puts Siri in the driver's seat

Apple's Siri is a great tool for safely automating iPhone tasks while driving, but under certain circumstances the virtual assistant can only be summoned by taking a hand off the wheel and pressing the home button. With CarPlay being anything but ubiquitous, Beanco Tech created a stopgap in Mobile Home.

Victor Marks 11 years ago 13

Apple Maps gets 9 new Flyover locations, Siri adds international movie times

Apple on Friday pushed out an update to two first party services, bringing Flyover to nine new locales including Avignon, France, while expanding international movie showtime support for Siri.

AppleInsider Staff 11 years ago 29

Amazon's 'Echo' is a standalone Siri-like virtual assistant for the home

In a surprise announcement on Thursday, Amazon revealed a new first-party hardware product class in "Echo," an Internet-connected virtual assistant stuffed into a tubular standalone speaker.

Mikey Campbell 11 years ago 115

Evidence shows Apple operating a mysterious Web crawling bot

A developer has discovered that Apple appears to be crawling HTML websites with its own automated bot, but the exact purpose of the mysterious homegrown software remains unknown.

Neil Hughes 11 years ago 104

AAA says Apple's Siri causes potentially dangerous driver distractions

According to a new study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, hands- and eyes-free infotainment and smartphone control systems can be dangerously distracting to drivers. And Apple's iOS 7 version of Siri ranks among the worst.

Mikey Campbell 11 years ago 89

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