The voice analysis is done on the remote servers. These are Nuance servers. This is processed and returned to the device as text. The Siri app then determines what you meant and acts upon it. The value add of the Siri app, beyond what the Nuance servers provide, is the UX or the taking of what was said and interpreting what was meant and this is done locally. So yes, if you take the actual Siri app on a non-iP4S device, if you point it off to an equally capable voice analysis service (for instance other Nuance server not provisioned for Apple), you would have full blown Siri. The local app would be Siri and the remote servers would be Nuance (or Nuance class), which would exactly be the full Siri experience.
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Also Dragon Go (free) and Vlingo (free) work well. Of course, using them doesn't let you pretend you have an iPhone 4S.
I am going to install this just because of it's integration with the default apps. Seems more useful to me then copying and pasting from Dragon
Mobile Safari started crashing on me today in the middle of work.. almost every time I went to use the keyboard or enter user input on a web page. I started to panic, (tethered jailbreak 5.0) but after a few cydia crashes right when trying to uninstall this siri0us package.. I managed to get it uninstalled and respring.
No problems since, but it's def not worth having on my iPhone 4 if it's going to act like this. Glad it was free (= got what I paid for)
No problems since, but it's def not worth having on my iPhone 4 if it's going to act like this. Glad it was free (= got what I paid for)
Siri is essentially three components -- the speech recognition part (which is built using Nuance technology), and the contextually-aware "personal assistant" component (which is the truly unique aspect to Siri), and the text-to-speech component that allows Siri to actually talk back to you.
Only the third part is truly local to the phone.
The key "personal assistant" part is not done locally on the phone. Small aspects of it might be -- like remembering your name and which contact is your wife -- but it absolutely depends on Apple's servers to figure out what you want, and then send instructions back to the phone telling it what it needs to do locally.
Part of what makes Siri work is that the speech recognition and personal assistant components are integrated with each other -- both of them are network-based, and are run together on Apple's server. Two technologies, but in they way they're run, it's really just a single service.
So: There's no way to connect an alternate speech recognition source to the Siri what-did-I-really-mean software because that software doesn't exist on the phone, either. This hack doesn't really do anything to bring us closer to having true Siri functionality on pre-4S devices; all it does it duplicate the mic-button-on-the-keyboard Dictation feature.
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Anyone else lose the ability to boot with semitether after installing this tweak?
Anyone else lose the ability to boot with semitether after installing this tweak?
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Anyone else lose the ability to boot with semitether after installing this tweak?
Anyone else lose the ability to boot with semitether after installing this tweak?
I installed this and it works honestly perfect on my iphone 4.
Siri dictation is the only reason I actually wanted a 4S but it's a huge waste of money unless u were due for a new contract or got money to toss around so I was happy I got the dictation on my iphone 4 now
Siri dictation is the only reason I actually wanted a 4S but it's a huge waste of money unless u were due for a new contract or got money to toss around so I was happy I got the dictation on my iphone 4 now
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It's still listed, but the actual file's been taken down.
I got it again from here:
http://cydia.myrepospace.com/0xjf/
freedevil said:
It's still listed, but the actual file's been taken down.
I got it again from here:
http://cydia.myrepospace.com/0xjf/
Can anyone post the location where this is stored on the iPhone. Because I installed it, but my iPhone is in a reboot cycle now and I can't find the location.
Thanks in advance
edit: found it: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AssistantServices.framework in case anyone needs it
Thanks in advance
edit: found it: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AssistantServices.framework in case anyone needs it
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I was able to get Cydia open and uninstall the package, after which I deleted the repo where I got it from. It was definitely siri0us that was crashing my apps. No problems since removal yesterday.. and a just boot tethered in redsn0w.
developer asked this package to be completely removed from cydia. Supposedly apple has already threatened legal action against him. Another sad rumor to most; he successfully got siri working 100% and was releasing that next.
EDIT: for those hoping for a 100% full port of siri to older devices, this very well ends that dream. A mere dictation of siri caused legal action, it will be ten fold for a 100% working siri port. So do not count on ever seeing siri on older devices.
EDIT: for those hoping for a 100% full port of siri to older devices, this very well ends that dream. A mere dictation of siri caused legal action, it will be ten fold for a 100% working siri port. So do not count on ever seeing siri on older devices.
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A full port has always been a pipe dream since day one, for me anyway. It's too bad they are trying to pull it from cydia. What about existing installations? We'll still be able to use it no?
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Siri0us worked fine before I installed Spire. Even after deleting Spire Siri0us won't work. When I touch the mic it starts and just stops. Has anyone had this happen and fixed it?
Seems like the servers are down or something for Siri0us. Every time I tap the mic button it just beeps and closes the mic window.
Anyone else having problems? I'll hate to use this tweak.
Anyone else having problems? I'll hate to use this tweak.
Same problem here. Started yesterday. No Siri0us reports in crash reporter. Seems like it's being blocked at the server, there is a failed authorization and Siri0us shuts down.
Same problem here. I had Siri0us working fine on my vacation. I just returned home, and wanted to test it out for actual work dictation, and it's no longer working. It beeps and then does nothing, the mic window closes.
I thought it had something to do with other hacks I'd applied and was doing all sorts of troubleshooting... now it appears that it's not only me.
Ugh. This sucks. This was the only capability of "Siri" that I actually wanted, and it was working fine on my iPhone 4 -- that I was finally able to upgrade to iOS 5 (untethered jailbreak) and now it's gone
Anyone else? Can you confirm that a previously-working install of Siri0us stopped working for you sometime during the last 3-4 days?
I thought it had something to do with other hacks I'd applied and was doing all sorts of troubleshooting... now it appears that it's not only me.
Ugh. This sucks. This was the only capability of "Siri" that I actually wanted, and it was working fine on my iPhone 4 -- that I was finally able to upgrade to iOS 5 (untethered jailbreak) and now it's gone
Anyone else? Can you confirm that a previously-working install of Siri0us stopped working for you sometime during the last 3-4 days?
Searching around the web I see that many Siri0us users are reporting the same "issue." So it seems that Siri0us' days are indeed over
Now I have installed an older hack called VoiceKeys, that uses Google's voice recognition, and it easily appears wherever there's an iOS keyboard. So no need to copy-paste.
http://www.techcular.com/voicekeys-cydia-tweak-brings-speech-to-text-capability-iphone/
(The speech recognition doesn't appear to be as good as Nuance's, but it's certainly easy and elegant to access.)
There is also "Automatic Dictation" which uses the Dragon Dictation app; it just adds some Activator shortcuts (voice activated even, via VoiceActivator if you like) to make it easier to invoke.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/12/18/automatic-dictation/
Now I have installed an older hack called VoiceKeys, that uses Google's voice recognition, and it easily appears wherever there's an iOS keyboard. So no need to copy-paste.
http://www.techcular.com/voicekeys-cydia-tweak-brings-speech-to-text-capability-iphone/
(The speech recognition doesn't appear to be as good as Nuance's, but it's certainly easy and elegant to access.)
There is also "Automatic Dictation" which uses the Dragon Dictation app; it just adds some Activator shortcuts (voice activated even, via VoiceActivator if you like) to make it easier to invoke.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/12/18/automatic-dictation/