Almost like Siri: Cydia app Sara for other iPhone models

One of the most valued advantages of iPhone 4S is certainly it’s Siri voice control app. Since iPhone 4S is now a jailbreak friendly device thanks to hard work from the jailbreak community, many different Siri related tweaks are becoming available. Among them, a number of apps which are Siri like or enable Siri on iOS devices other than iPhone 4S have been released recently. So far the most popular alternative to Siri is being delivered through Spire. But Sara is a tweak which will enable Siri even on older iOS devices. Yes it is true, it will work even on iPhone 3G!

Google working on a Siri like service ‘Majel’

iPhone 4S release introduced a bunch of completely novel concepts into mobile computing. One of the most important and unique features of iPhone 4S is certainly the voice assistant app Siri. Siri is the first good enough voice assistant ever to become available as a commercial scale technology. You could even say that this is the first time an app was able to work with inputs received in natural, everyday language. While Siri is still in a way considered to be in a beta version, it has already demonstrated a surprising level of functionality. The importance of Siri was really well understood by many users and engineers alike, but it did much more, as it deeply surprised Apple’s competitors, chiefly Google with their Android OS.

Siri now ported on iPhone 4, how to video available

Ever since Apple released Siri for the first time, many users and developers lounged to see Siri on other platforms. Apple was decidedly against this kind of development for their own reasons, but iOS developers were not completely satisfied with such approach. So after some hard work, a group of developers had finally succeeded in porting Siri voice assistant over to iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G.

Siri0us app which emulated Siri on iOS devices removed from Cydia app store

We have recently seen many interesting Siri based apps which have a great potential for revolutionizing iOS and mobile computing. One of them called Siri0us was released only a couple of days ago, but it seems that it wasn’t meant to last. Siri0us was about enabling Siri dictation on iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, and while not as great as Siri itself it was an interesting addition especially as it helped with voice based Search and Note apps. Since it didn’t had access to official Siri servers, it had to relay completely on Nuance API. The problem was that Nuance didn’t authorize the use of their software for these purposes. And to avoid further confrontation and possible lawsuits, Eric Dean, the developer of Siri0us has decided to pull out this app from Cydia altogether.

Jailbroken iOS 5 devices new featuring Siri dictation

Using Siri becomes more and more important as we see a surge of various Siri related hack during last few days. Now the possibility of dictating with Siri while using various apps becomes possible for iOS devices other than iPhone 4S. This was made possible with a new jailbreak app named Siri0us which was just released and based on the so called Nuance Speech Recognition software. Nuance Speech Recognition is the same app Apple uses in iPhone 4S. If you decide you need to use this new jailbreak app you will have to start with a proper jailbreak for your device. Keep in mind that this app is not using Apple’s web servers at all. The whole process relies solely on the Nuance Speech Recognition which uses your devices hardware resources.

Use Siri to start your car

Could you imagine only a couple of days ago that you could start your car with Siri and your iPhone? It is hard to believe how fast is technology developing these days. It is also interesting how users are tweaking and adjusting already available technologies in creative and unsuspecting ways.

Microsoft talks about Siri

In recent interview, head of Microsoft’s research department Craig Mundie comments on Siri, new voice assistant app recently launched by Apple. He claims that Siri is not an original idea at all and that Richmond company already had such an app for Windows Phone 7 called TellMe.

With TellMe you can easily create a text messages to one of your contacts through voice to speech technology. You can also do your web searches on Microsoft’s own search engine Bing, with your voice input only. According to Mundie, TellMe is just as good as Siri and more importantly, it is available for already a year now.

Siri can find out if a plane is flying above your place

You can do an amazing list of things with your iPhone, and the list just keeps growing. Siri, the new voice assistant app for iOS has added a completely new set of capabilities to your favourite smartphone and among other things you can now do, believe it or not you can find out with Siri’s help if a plane is flying above your location.

How does it achieve this? Apparently Siri uses your iPhone GPS and Wolfram Alpha ‘Computational Knowledge Engine’ to find out the distance, altitude and speed of every airplane flying near your exact location. To find out this, you only have to ask Siri for Wolfram flights and you’ll get plenty of data about flights nearby.

iOS 5.0.2 Coming soon featuring battery bug fix and Siri upgrade

According to latest rumors, Apple is working hard to finish the next iOS upgrade, and according to this rumor it could become available already during next week. This upgrade could finally solve the infamous battery drain issue and it could also introduce a set of new upgrades for Siri, which is now a core element of iOS for new iPhones. Siri could be used as a hardware controlling system so you could take a picture or turn on your Wi-fi connection with Siri only. If this iOS upgrade really hits the market next week, it could become one of the fastest released upgrades so far. And while this is good from the standpoint that it solves some problems, a hurried release usually includes a number previously unknown bugs. Especially so since no beta version of iOS 5.0.2 was made available to Apple developers community, which is another usual procedure for Apple.

Amazon works on a Siri competitor

Amazon obviously sees Apple as a strong competitor, which isn’t that strange after all since we see Apple turning into a strong content provider with their App Store and iTunes. Amazon has obviously recognized the fact that Siri is a changing point, perhaps as much as touch screen was only a couple of years ago. And not surprisinlgy Google is also afraid of Siri, as its former CEO Eric Schmidt admits in a recent Senate hearing.