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Siri. Angel Padial Madero. Introduction. Siri is an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator The App uses a natural language This app answer questions, make recommendations and perform actions desired by the user Siri means in Norwegian :
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Siri AngelPadial Madero
Introduction • Siri is an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator • The App uses a natural language • This app answer questions, make recommendations and perform actions desired by the user • Siri means in Norwegian : "beautiful woman who leads you to victory"
Introduction • Siri is only available for iOS • Its support 9 different idioms • Siri adapts to the customer preferences over time • Siri's primary technical areas focus on a Conversational Interface, Personal Context Awareness, and Service Delegation.
Foundation • The idea of Siri started as a project of the USA army but it was developed by SRI International • Siri was created in December of 2007 by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer,Tom Gruber and Norman Winarsky • Siri was originally introduced as an iOS application available in theApp Store • In the first years they grew very rapidly • Siri was acquired by Apple on April 28, 2010
Foundation • October of 2008 8,5 M $ • November of 2009 15,5 M $ • April of 2010 (around) 200 M $
Howitworks? • Siriworkswith a natural languageuser interface forvoicerecognition • Sirihas personal contextawareness, so ithelps to makethedesiredrequest • WhenSiriknowwhatwewant, delegaterequests to a set of Web Services
Howitworks? • Your speech is interpreted in your phone and in a server at the same time • When it understood a series of vowels and consonants it create a candidate list of interpretations of your speech might mean • Siri communicates with servers in the cloud to interpret your requests and retrieve the information you need
Howitworks? • Maybe Siri can perform your request in the phone so stop the communication with the server • If Siri doesn’t understand you, she can give you a list of choices or just indicate that she didn’t understand • People have created a Siri Proxy that allow you to build and run plug-ins to add custom features to Siri
Siri’slimitations • Siri needs a good connection to internet to perform the requests • Youmustspeackclarely to Siri in ordershe can understandyou • Siri can misinterpretyou • Siri doesn’t understand all spelling variations (i.e. Jeff or Geoff)
WhatdoesSiriforus? • Find a restaurand • Knowthe score of yourteam • Buy tickets • Post in facebook • Send a tweet
WhatdoesSiriforus? • Launchan App • Checktheweather • Send a text • Findinformation
WhatdoesSiriforus? • Set alarms • Getdirections • Siritakesdictations • Eyes free • And much more…
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References • http://www.apple.com/es/ios/siri/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri • http://www.imore.com/siri • http://www.applesfera.com/iphone/siri-el-nuevo-asistente-personal-del-iphone-4s-que-entiende-lo-que-dices • http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/siri1.htm