Apple hires Amazon executive to head its Siri search team
Apple has hired William Stasior, a former Amazon executive and "prominent search technologist," who will now run its Siri personal assistant division.
|
Siri
AppleInsider Staff
Still in beta: Siri falls short when searching for Apple retail stores
A year after Siri first launched, Apple's personal assistant still falls short when accomplishing basic tasks that one might assume would be a priority for the company, such as finding a local Apple Store.
|
Neil Hughes
Apple seeks patent for Siri automated assistant
Apple is seeking ownership of the technology and features that drive its voice-controlled Siri personal assistant found on iOS devices.
|
Siri cofounder leaves Apple, report says [u]
Siri co-creator and Vice President of Engineering Adam Cheyer has left Apple, reports Bloomberg's Jon Erlichman.
|
Google says voice is the future of web search, introduces Siri-like app for iOS
Google told reporters today that the future of web search looks identical to Apple's Siri, admitting, "if we are going to build the search of the future, we will have to solve difficult technology issues like speech recognition and natural language."
|
Daniel Eran Dilger
Nuance's Nina to enable iOS apps to authenticate users by the sound of their voice
The somewhat tedious process of logging into applications on Apple's iOS devices using the on-screen keyboard may soon become a thing of the past thanks to a new software platform from Nuance that promises to allow app makers to authenticate a user by the sound of their voice and much, much more.
|
Katie Marsal
Taiwan university sues Apple over Siri, asserts two speech-recognition patents
In a suit filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas last Friday, the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan claims Apple's implementation of Siri on the iPhone 4S infringes on two speech-recognition patents and seeks a permanent sales ban on offending products as well as damages awards.
|
Mikey Campbell
Martin Scorsese featured in new iPhone 4S ad
Apple continues to tap celebrities to show off the iPhone 4S-exclusive Siri voice assistant with a new TV commercial starring director Martin Scorsese.
|
'Google Now' personal assistant represents search giant's answer to Siri
Even as Google continues to develop voice search functionality for its Android mobile operating system, the company's new Google Now service is a different approach to tackling rival Apple's Siri virtual assistant.
|
Josh Ong
Slash Lane
Sam Oliver
