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Apple’s latest iPhone feature is Siri. What is Siri, you ask? Funny you ask that way.

Siri is a new app that will be included with the iPhone 4S. This app is a new way to control your phone with your voice. Instead of just dictating a message to your phone, you can ask your iPhone to do stuff for you.

Siri is no Joan from Mad Men, she isn’t going to cook you dinner like Alice on the Brady Bunch, and you can be sure that she won’t help you to your Batcave, but she can do some amazing things anyway.

Siri can take action based on what you say, and isn’t limited to a small set of specific keywords to do what you ask.

Apple is able to take voice control to a new level by using Artificial Intelligence. Siri’s artificial intelligence lets the app place your request in context and make smarter decisions about what you are trying to do.

Siri sounds like science fiction, but it’s coming to your pocket on October 14th.

How Does Siri Work?

When you launch Siri, which you can just call your assistant if Siri sounds weird, you can ask it to do something and get the results read back to you by a robotic sounding female voice.

Here’s a video showing off several off the cool things you can use Siri for to simplify your life.

https://youtu.be/rNsrl86inpo

If you notice, the users don’t have to get specific about who or what they want. The male says to text his wife, and it does, no need to use her full name. Same with traffic, your iPhone already knows where you are, so why should you need to give it your current location?

Siri can also read you your text messages, and allow you to respond with your voice so that you don’t have to stop doing whatever you are doing to type a reply.

What Can Siri Do?

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What Can Siri Do?

Siri can control many functions of your iPhone, including the new Reminders App, which is able to remind you to do things based on your location. This allows you to use Siri to remind you to grab something when you get home, or to do something as soon as you get to work.

Here are just a few of the things you can ask Siri to do,

  • Ask for a Reminder – At a specific time or place
  • Ask to send a text
  • Ask or the weather
  • Ask for information – Like a restaurant
  • Ask to schedule a meeting
  • Ask to send an email
  • Ask for someone’s number
  • Ask to set an alarm
  • Ask for directions
  • Ask to set a timer
  • Ask about your stocks
  • Ask to play a playlist
  • Ask about Siri

These actions allow you to do many things, and because Siri understands, you can ask just like you would ask a friend or a real assistant.

Apple offers up a few examples of Siri’s understanding,

“Any good burger joints around here?” Siri will reply “I found a number of burger restaurants near you.” Then you can say “Hmm. How about tacos?” Siri remembers that you just asked about restaurants, so it will look for Mexican restaurants in the neighborhood. And Siri is proactive, so it will question you until it finds what you’re looking for.

One of my favorite uses is to set a reminder in the Reminders App that is a part of iOS 5. If you need to set a reminder, but don’t want to be bothered with it until you get to a specific place, Siri can put that into the reminder.

Watch the iPhone 4S demo below, which shows off a user setting a reminder for when he gets home. As soon as he pulls in the driveway, he is reminded to grab a gift.

https://youtu.be/SFfm2uQbaLM

How Do I Get Siri?

Apple’s new personal assistant app is part of iOS 5, but it is only available on the iPhone 4S.

The iPhone 4S also includes a faster processor, better 8MP camera that can record in 1080P with video stabilization and impressive pictures as well as AirPlay Mirroring to wirelessly stream to an Apple TV.

The iPhone 4S is available on Sprint, AT&T and Verizon. iPhone 4S preorders start on October 7th, and the iPhone 4S is available to purchase in stores on October 14th.

The iPhone 4S comes in 16Gb, 32GB and 64GB sizes as well as black and white colors. Prices start at $199 on contract and at $649 off contract.

22 Comments

22 Comments

  1. Anonymous

    10/05/2011 at 2:06 pm

    1- I’m not sure voice interaction is such a good idea. Voice dialing has been available for ages, and nobody uses it. Ditto for dictation/control. I actually bought IBM ViaVoice around 10 years ago, it worked fine (on a PC)… and… I never used it.
    2- I’ll believe it when … someone … sees it. Right now there’s a handful of artificial, controlled, scripted demos making the rounds of journalists and bloggers, but no real-world test, which makes me very cautious.

    I can see myself using it for short “memo to self”.. except I could that with my phone right now, and I don’t. As for letting an advertiser choose where I should have dinner and buy stuff, no-thank-you.

    • 1HalfDay

      10/06/2011 at 7:56 am

      Your an Idiot

      • Anonymous

        10/06/2011 at 8:13 am

        And you are, clearly, not.

      • Guest

        10/06/2011 at 9:04 pm

        Your a troll

        • Guest

          10/16/2011 at 2:50 pm

          You’re

  2. Adam Truelove

    10/05/2011 at 8:57 pm

    This is amazing and literally the first feature that I’m actually interested in on an iPhone.

  3. Colin

    10/06/2011 at 9:41 am

    This feature will go the way of the dodo. After the awful voice activated features on the past I phones
    I cant believe that anyone will use this feature outside of the first 3 days of playing on the new phone.

    Now wheres the real I phone 5?

  4. Dinesh Silva

    10/06/2011 at 11:16 pm

    Im sure the next iPhones gonna read our minds and set reminders :D

  5. Anonymous

    10/07/2011 at 10:20 am

    Omg, THIS IS AMAZING AWESOME! but can they make siri limbs too? I need someone to make my coffee

    • Spandya32

      10/29/2011 at 7:16 pm

      u r very lazy…………….how can it do it ……..lolll……………….

  6. Crankysnickerdoodle

    10/14/2011 at 1:47 am

    i have this on my droid – what’s the big deal?

  7. Awesomepie1998

    10/15/2011 at 11:38 am

    This is like a more advanced voice dialer. Will this be available on iPad too?????

  8. Vt737

    10/23/2011 at 3:50 pm

    Just bought it. Siri is worth the price of the phone itself. Now I don’t have to worry about my teen texting and driving. Siri does a Ton more than what’s in this article. A great resource for students.

    • Vt737

      10/23/2011 at 3:57 pm

      And yes it works! Unbelievably accurate. U can play with it too. I asked for the dates of WWII and it did. It will calculate mathematical formulas to. I asked for the square root of 30x175x.056(a standard speed formula for accident reconstruction) and it gave me the answer!!!!!!!!!’ wow!!!!!

  9. Siri Crazy

    10/28/2011 at 6:19 am

    Siri was launched as virtual personal assistant for iPhone 3GS.
    Siri was available as an app  Siri was available in the App Store for
    free for iPhone 3GS.A good place to know all about siri  check out https://www.siricrazy.com/about-siri/what-is-siri

  10. Sadcsd2

    12/05/2011 at 7:48 am

    its not practical ..the use of it

  11. 123

    01/12/2012 at 6:54 pm

    Everyone who knocks it is to stupid or poor to buy an iPhone. Siri is amazing.

  12. Mma Sutherland

    01/22/2012 at 3:13 pm

    i use it the car while I’m driving
    its brilliant

  13. Cris

    03/01/2012 at 8:15 am

    do I have to call her siri? I wanted something that doesn’t mean “crab” in my language

  14. Penis

    09/08/2012 at 9:43 am

    You like cock

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