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Siri shows natural language as key UI element

Published on Thursday, October 6th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Apple’s John Scully’s Knowledge Navigator comes true

GoMo News had a sneaking feeling that the announcements made by Apple about the Siri personal assistant as a key feature of the iPhone 4S might have been more important than the impression first given. Well, Bill Meisel, editor of Speech Strategy News, is adamant that we’ve all underestimated Siri’s significance. Sadly, Bill goes into far too much detail here about it here but we’ll try to summarise. We particularly liked the bit where Bill says that incorporating natural language understanding is a classic extension of the Apple philosophy that you shouldn’t need a user manual to be able to perform a particular task. Continue reading →