This is what you will say if you meet Siri. Yeah, she is smart-intelligent Siri, which you are thinking about after listening name. You get her free with your iPhone 4S. Siri was born in 2007. Apple is not the creator of Siri but Apple has adopted her from SRI International’s venture group. Seeing to the revenue earned in year 2008 and 2009 which have crossed millions, Apple found good prospect to integrate with iPhone and today Siri is a big player behind successful marketing and selling of iPhone. For information, 4 million iPhones were sold out in the week’s period of its launch. Being Siri was mastered by Apple, it was then not reachable to Androids and other OS. But that was the idea of a creator when Siri born, to make it available for all the platforms.
What Siri can do?
This question can be described in very long list. Siri is like your virtual personal secretary. Siri can set alarms, reminders, play songs, make a call, take down dictations, mailing, go to Internet and search mostly all things you can do it manually. It takes help of Wolfram-Alpha, Yelp, Rotten-tomato and Google too. Siri has been too much accurate in herself that, experts sees a threat for a Google dominance prevailing round the globe.
What made Siri so much successful as an application on technical perspective?
Siri’s working seems very simple but it that complex in actual inside. She works on vocal inputs by the users. She primarily stores the vocal input in the form of digital media. Siri work locally as well as on the network. That means say for example if you request her to play a songs and this can be done locally from the phone where as when you order her to find some restaurant or movieplex she need to connect internet. So after taking input it first of all try to connect to cloud server, with the help of wireless internet or via mobile service provider. Now meanwhile it analyzes the necessity of going to cloud server. If the request of user can be fulfilled locally, it says to cloud, “Thanks Sir! I will take care myself. Don’t bother master.” But this analysis is not as easy as I easily conveyed. It has complex algorithms to decide this thing. There are some statistical models loaded locally in her as well as in her master that is Cloud server. For the execution of user’s request, Siri gets many responses from its algorithms and statistical models but comes with the best of all by prioritizing the bulk of results. If we see the smartness, let take an example. If user requests her, “Call Dimple”, it will go to contact list and see all the probable contacts to be called. Like if contact directory has Dimple Fadia and Dimple Shah, it will ask you, whom to call in case of ambiguity. If you believe me this is just a basic example, she is capable of much much more.
The other side of Siri!
Besides this, Apple engineers have also made Siri character bit funny. If you ask her, “Will you marry me?” then you will get first response, like “Don’t try to flatter me” or “Come on that was not in our contract when you got me”. You will get funny responses for the naughty questions. So, it seems like creator and Apple engineer have poured a life in the application which may even heal a loneliness of user to some extent in a funny way. So get in the Love with Siri, she is open for all. J
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