In a radio interview over the weekend, movie actress Barbara Streisand said that Apple is fixing how Siri pronounces her name and that the update will be on September 30th. Siri’s use of a “Z” sound in the middle of “Streisand” has annoyed the singer since Apple’s feature first launched in 2011, according to a talk on NPR. […]
The popular game, Pokemon Go, has found its way into Siri’s vocabulary. The Siri team has found time to come up with some humorous answers for the game. To activate it, just say: “Hey Siri, do you like Pokemon Go?” To which Siri responds with one of the below answers: “I like playing peekaboo with Pikacu.” […]
“Apple has been working on speech and voice AI solutions for decades,” Tim Bajarin writes for TIME Magazine. “Only in 2011 did Apple believe the iPhone had enough horsepower to deliver the first generation of Siri. (Apple acquired the company behind Siri in 2010),” Bajarin writes. “Since then, Apple has been using new forms of […]
A Cairns mother has saved the life of her baby girl with the help of an unlikely hero – Siri, the iPhone voice-activated computer program. Stacey Gleeson saw on the baby monitor that her daughter had turned blue and discovered that one-year-old Giana had stopped breathing. “I picked her up and sat down with her […]
