Earlier today, a startup called Siri that wants to bring virtual assistants to the iPhone came out of stealth. Siri brings a very advanced collection of technologies (speech recognition, natural language processing, semantic data processing, and geo-location) to create a virtual assistant that helps you perform tasks through a conversational, question-and-answer interface. You can read all about it in this lengthy guest post by Nova Spivack.
But sometimes it is easier to just see the product for yourself. Below is the first public demo video of Siri, which I got on video today from CEO Dag Kittlaus at the AllThingsD conference in San Diego. Siri won’t be available on the iPhone until later this summer.
There’s lots of new web assistants out there. I’ll have to check this one out, I could really use a personal secretary.
http://www.twibeo.com
The Twitter and FriendFeed Combo.
yeah i have also seen quite a few till now. lets check this out
It’s quite another advanced app for iPhone. I can’t wait to try this one once it’s released. I bet the price would be expensive. I hope, a trial version will be available too.
So just a sexy voice enabled front end on SmarterChild, toss in a few other connected services google, locative stuff, maybe even a bit of wolfram. Wait for knockoffs to arrive!
How is this faster and accurate than typing?
I also don’t like the mixed data views… Can’t they streamline this data and present it in a Wolfram|Alpha way?
But the concept looks interesting. It’s like Google Voice Search. Oh wait…
why this iphone not in India?
siri-ously. another company that helps you find everything but them. isnt that the name of tom cruises baby?
Nice to see bits and pieces of the future of voice enabled mobile discovery.
- best of skill to siri.
DemoLocator.com – display yourself
Very cool. Now – which app do I remove from my iphone to make room for this one?
By the time this comes out the 3.0 firmware will be available, which adds two more screens for apps!
Why don’t you mention that will be available for Blackberry, WM, Palm and Android too? (as per their website)
It doesn’t say that… It says the available iPhone app will be available later this Summer. It simply asks what mobile device you currently use upon registration. I think the roll out to the other platforms is likely, but if you had read the actual 2 page article featured a little earlier… the entire focus from the company itself was based on an iPhone release, with no mention of any other platform.
wow, a great app on iphone.
I like how it solves all my problems, even the ones I don’t know I have. Like Clippy.
welll.. Windows Mobile already has an app like this called Live Search. pretty much the same thing but this has been implemented better with an ASSISTANT interface. MS acquired tellme and not done much with it which is this app. good idea but not unique IMHO
Live Search is woefully inferior to what Siri will offer.
oops… spoke too soon.. tell me will be available for Windows Mobile 6.5. take a lookie here
http://www.tellme.com/you
Yessirree Bob!
Looks downright amazing to me. Can’t wait to download the sucker myself.
Looks great. I hope, at least at some point, it can tie into Google Calendar API, so it can help me stay organized during the day. Finding movies is great, but as a “serious, important businessman” I also need help doing battle with the little things. Things such as, move my next meeting to 3 p.m., what is my dial-in information?, or, polish my flip-flops!
Looks fantastic, though. Great work and I can’t wait to buy it.
I am hoping we (Bloom Apps) can dish out an iPhone app at some point, but we must battle the dreaded feature creep!
wow the chat bubbles work nicely…. the interface is very clean too
fantabulous
but still could use a customizable avatar to visually represent siri and allow users to personalize their own siri’s and with the avatar animations text to voice and the chat bubbles it would be a rich personalized experience
voice recog natural language search query results are one thing, what about adding events to a calendar? or to do lists? making status updates for you?, jotting down notes? letting you know if you have an email, voicemail, text, messages, comments/replies from specific users? bang out emails and texts? so on and so on
the iphone app is one thing but what if you could communicate and interact with siri via phone, text, im, email, or via the web or better yet what if siri could communicate with you via every medium know to man exactly as you configured it so it would filter alerts, messages, RSS, and aggregate data according to importance and relevancy
know and aggregate your likes, dislikes, and hobbies
down the road maybe try to aggregate personalities in real time via audio cues like voice tone, pitch loudness, speed ect could add more value to the results
oh and by the way the mesh data from the results is nice — localized and fetches from multiple sources but its missing one thing….social graph data as in twitter/facebook tweets/posts from your top friends that are relevant to the query, as well as reviews, suggestions and personalized recomendations
but anyways its looks awesome can’t wait to try it out
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It’s “sneak peek”, you maroons.
First thing I’ve seen for the iPhone that could fall into the “killer app” category.
this looks great i can’t wait to give it a go yet another app to amaze my freinds with
They kept it simple and clean good job ”SIRI” you made what you’ve have claimed and it works maybe soon the next level will arive to use local content like calenders , emails ,txtmsg , audio and video. Oh and never do something like an avatar or such cuz thats a waste of usefull cycles.
I love the iPhone the apps just keep getting better.
When iphone 3.0 is released the apps will be even better
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This application could seriously benefit the elderly people who don’t know how to search, and are more comfortable talking.
The voice recognition software seems to be pretty sophisticated and the data matching algorithms are simply amazing!
Too bad it will bring in competition for us Virtual Assistants!