VoiceAssistant Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Google to challenge Siri with its updated Google search app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 8th, 2012)

Google's Search app for iOS will soon receive an update that'll improve the voice assistant component and bring it on par with its Android Jelly Bean counterpart. The upcoming version of the search app takes advantage of Google's experience with speech recognition and its Knowledge Graph, which ...

Apple sued over Siri in China

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 5th, 2012)

After settling a US$60 million lawsuit with Chinese company Proview, Apple now faces yet another costly lawsuit in China. This time the complaint focuses on Siri and is initiated by Zhizhen Network Technology, a Chinese company with its own voice assistant software. According to a report in ...

Study: 87% of iPhone 4S owners use Siri monthly

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 27th, 2012)

Parks Associates surveyed 482 iPhone 4S owners and found that 87 percent of respondents use voice assistant Siri at least once a month. Most people (55 percent) are satisfied with the service and use it to make phone calls and send text messages. About a third of users, however, are not using ...

Siri's Japanese performance not as good as DoCoMo's voice assistant

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 13th, 2012)

Apple added support for Japanese in iOS 5.1, but the roll out isn't going as smoothly as expected. According to a Kotaku report, Apple's voice assistant can apparently only handle simple and universal Japanese phrases. When it comes to complex phrases, Siri stumbles while its competitor Shabette ...

iPhone owner sues Apple over Siri

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 12th, 2012)

Sure, Apple's Siri voice assistant isn't perfect. Sometimes there's network connectivity problems, sometimes background voice interferes and sometimes Siri is just plain wrong. It's for those reasons (and others) that Apple launched the service as a "beta." Despite the beta tag, at least one iPhone ...

Siri co-founder Kittlaus leaves Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 24th, 2011)

According to a report from AllThingsD, Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus has left Apple to pursue his own interests. The departure was supposedly amicable and Kittlaus will use his newly-found free time to spend time with his family in Chicago and explore new entrepreneurial ideas. He reportedly ...