Competitors to Siri
Anyone interested in the evolution of smartphone apps should get a kick of considering the future of voice recognition apps. Siri, Apple’s voice recognition personal assistant app for iPhone and iPad, is certainly in a league of its own. But that league has more than one team. The Android app, Iris (yes, they actually had the audacity to just spell Siri in reverse), released in October of 2011, approaches the industry with a similar service. Android appears eager to reclaim its mantle of voice recognition king, though Iris is lacking in many respects. It performs similar tasks as Siri and is activated in much the same way. The user taps on the mic and issues and command and then Iris follows orders.
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Made by the Dextera team in less than eight hours, Iris is more limited than Siri. Its mathematical skills are sparse and most of its references come from Wikipedia. Additionally, the app requires Google’s voice recognition software, which is prone to error. But Iris stands to inherit considerable improvements in the future when it moves out of its current alpha phase. More than anything, the hackers who made Iris showed how quickly something approximating Siri could be put together.
But Iris isn’t the only app that looks to challenge Apple’s Siri. Vlingo, which can be downloaded for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry, provides a Siri-like service, with features like being able to create alarms and reminders, compose texts and update Facebook. Another Android challenger, Speaktoit, is still in beta but assists with information retrieval, app launching, weather reports, currency and measurement conversion, and social media services.
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Dragon Go! is perhaps the leader of the pack in terms of voice recognition but is not nearly as compatible with or integrated into your device, instead of operating as a web reference. Finally, the Android app Edwin offers a variety of fresh web options, connected as it is to Wolfram Alpha.
The future of voice recognition assistant smartphone apps could see some major new players. Kinect’s voice recognition system is good enough that it’s not hard to imagine the sensor itself evolving into a Siri-like service. The Amazon voice search tool Yap, which will be compatible with Kindle Fire and could be a major part of the Amazon online store in the coming years. Another possible contender is called Teneo, which was created by ‘natural language interaction’ consultant Artificial Solutions. One thing is for certain, the next few years should be very active in the voice recognition app field.