As promised late last year, Chevrolet is the first company to deliver Siri ‘Eyes Free’ to consumers. 2013 Chevy Spark and Sonic cars allow owners to perform a number of tasks via Siri using the car’s built-in entertainment system. In the 2013 Spark and Sonic vehicles equipped with MyLink, owners can use Siri in Eyes Free mode to: – Make voice-activated, hands-free calls...
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MacRumors has been seeing builds of OS X 10.9 in site logs since November, which is also when hints of Siri integration for Macs began appearing. A recent Apple job posting (via TechCrunch) reinforces the rumor that Siri might be bundled with the next version of OS X. In its listing for a Siri UI Engineer, Apple specifies that candidates should possess “Familiarity with Unix, especially...
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When iOS 6 was announced last June, Apple said it was working with car manufacturers on a new “Eyes Free” mode for Siri that would integrate with voice command buttons found in an increasing number of car models to allow users to interact with Siri without needing to look at their devices’ screens. At the time, Scott Forstall displayed a slide showing that Apple was working with...
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A few of the details on the the history of Siri, including Steve Jobs’ move to contact the company just three weeks after the independent app’s launch, have surfaced over the last several years, but The Huffington Post has now published an extensive history of the technology and company that reveals a few other interesting details. The report outlines how Siri grew out of a...
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MIT Technology Review has dug up a job ad posted by Apple on LinkedIn appealing to writers to help make Siri more conversational. “[S]omeone who combines a love for language, wordplay, and conversation with demonstrated experience in bringing creative content to life within an intense technical environment.” The ad notes that writers who apply will also need “experience in writing...
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