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But Apple thought of it before Microsoft. :D

Irrelevant. I keep hearing from iFanboys that all that matters is who gets the best implementation to market. TellMe is the best speech interface hands down. Apple just knows how to copy other people's inventions.
 
Irrelevant. I keep hearing from iFanboys that all that matters is who gets the best implementation to market. TellMe is the best speech interface hands down. Apple just knows how to copy other people's inventions.

Quite true, but you know the fanboys will turn it around and say Microsoft copied Apple. Check out this 40 second clip of Steve talking about copying and stealing. The fanboys don't like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
 
Thanks for making this video (I, for one, can wait until Tuesday for the details).

One question: what song is playing in the background?

Update:
Actually Shazam answered the question (demonstrating a different sort of voice recognition?):
Take What You Take by Lily Allen (2006) from "Alright, Still" album.
 
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Of course they don't. Their god Steve admits to being a thief, but they pretend that video never happened...:p

They think it's ok if Steve or Apple steals, but they lead the lynch mob against any company that makes a rectangular phone or tablet. They are quite a biased bunch, to say the least.
 
I've used the Siri app, and found the voice recognition to be surprisingly accurate. I'd usually use it when driving if I needed to look something up or get directions somewhere, and I imagine that's where the assistant would get the majority of its use from me as well.

I tried dragon dictation too, thought that'd be good for replying to texts while driving, but found that once you spoke, you had to select "send as text" or whatever and then manually select the recipient as well. The ability to have that all voice controlled as well is AWESOME.

And here's to hoping that it gets voice controlled song selection right. To date, I don't think the current voice control has ever correctly selected an artist that I've said. I could see myself using that a lot if it worked.
 
car integration

if this will effectively integrate with a car bluetooth system, it would rule the auto market too.
 
Wonder what happens when you say: "Mr. Spock, beam me up to the transporter room."
 
If it is a rendering of an iPhone why does it have the 'Music' icon? Isn't that for iPod Touch?:confused:

-Understood! Thanks for the info f00f!

Well since iPod classic (original iPod) is going away now it doesn't make sense to have an icon of something Apple doesnt make anymore. Making Music and Video app becomes little bit easier to understand.

Even if iPod touch becomes just "iPod" iPhone's icon still looks like original iPod. So that's why.
 
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Holy balls that would be awesome! That would totally alleviate all disappointment if the new iPhone is a 4S and not the fabled 5.
 
Hope Apple exposes the Siri interface to app developers. That will be cool!
 
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I'm sure it'll be pretty cool, but for me this isn't a "must-have" feature. There are already apps that do this and I've never used them for very long. (Yes, this will be built into the OS and probably work a lot better, but the concept is the same.)
 
Ugly.

I'm sorry... Even if Apple uses the slide up animation (as rumoured) like multitasking, I can bet you it won't look this way.

We'll see...
 
Guess what - WP7.5 just shipped with FULL speech interface(Call, Find, App, Text). Eat it Apple, you're a bunch of copycats.

The ultimate narcissism, an Apple elitist having a conversation with their iPhone.

I hope this works on the iPhone 4 and isn't purposely excluded to make people upgrade.

I can see no iFanboys have anything to say about MSFT beating Apple to the punch on Speech Interface.

But Apple thought of it before Microsoft. :D

Irrelevant. I keep hearing from iFanboys that all that matters is who gets the best implementation to market. TellMe is the best speech interface hands down. Apple just knows how to copy other people's inventions.

Quite true, but you know the fanboys will turn it around and say Microsoft copied Apple. Check out this 40 second clip of Steve talking about copying and stealing. The fanboys don't like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

Of course they don't. Their god Steve admits to being a thief, but they pretend that video never happened...:p

but you're taking it out of context...

They think it's ok if Steve or Apple steals, but they lead the lynch mob against any company that makes a rectangular phone or tablet. They are quite a biased bunch, to say the least.


I see where this is going.

KILL STEVE JOBS BEFORE HE DIES ! :p


But in all seriousness, we all disagree to agree.

And who care if Apple copied Microsoft. It's a stupid idea to begin with and nobody will ever use it.

Unless you, your words and communications are so pointless that having everyone hear them is no big whoop.
And we know that description is totally inadequate to describe an iPhone user :eek:
 
Sure, other people have done this first. And who cares it speech recognition is in WP 7.5. Have any of you used the speech recognition in a Ford car? It is absolutely awful. Do you know who it is made by? Microsoft.

If Apple is going to do this, it will work extremely well. I haven't had any problems with the current speech recognition. I use it all the time to call people.
 
Ummm...that's f'n awesome. I can't wait. I admittedly don't use the voice control as much as I used to when it first came about. But that's only because I have since gotten a car with bluetooth connectivity and voice command.
 
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