Natural language Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

iPhone Assistant called a "world-changing event" by Siri co-founder

by Steven Sande (Oct 3rd, 2011)

One of the expected announcements in tomorrow's "Let's Talk iPhone" event revolves around the iPhone Assistant, a powerful voice recognition and artificial intelligence tool that will enable real-time searching and control of iPhones. The tool, based on technology acquired in Apple's 2010 ...

QuickCal for Mac: natural language events and todos for iCal

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 25th, 2011)

QuickCal has been one of my favorite ways to add items to iCal. It started with a Dashboard widget that let me use natural language to add calendar events. I loved it (actually wrote about it back in '09). Then it became an iOS app, QuickCal Mobile, and I was able to add entries with blazing ...

Soulver brings a calculator scratchpad to your iPhone

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 5th, 2010)

Acqualia's Soulver, a very cool "calculator scratchpad" (which we've covered before), has come to the iPhone [iTunes link]. Both versions allow you to enter expressions in regular mathematical form, or a more "natural language" form. It keeps a running total in the sidebar, and you can reference ...

Widget watch: Add iCal events using natural language with QuickCal

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 5th, 2009)

A new widget has found its way onto my Dashboard: QuickCal. It makes adding iCal events as easy as typing a natural-language string such as "lunch with Aditi at noon tomorrow." The widget parses the text as you type and shows what it finds below the entry area, letting you know if it understands ...

Today 1.6 adds natural language parsing for new events

by Robert Palmer (Jan 23rd, 2009)

Second Gear Software released version 1.6 of Today on Tuesday, fixing some minor bugs and adding natural language parsing to create new events. Today is a handy utility that fetches data from your iCal calendars, and displays only the events for today in a tidy list on your screen. Adding an event ...