Siri iPhone App, Personal Assistant

Hello and welcome to yet another post on Accessories for iPhone.

Today we are going to do another review of an app which is fairly new, and one which we took great advantage of before Valentines Day weekend.  The app in question is called Siri, a personal assistant for the iPhone as they like to call it.

When we first read about Siri briefly from other forums, we thought it would be fairly similar to the Google App.  While being similar in that it has voice recognition, it goes one step beyond the Google App.  The voice recognition aspect of the app also happens to be the same one that is used in Dragon Dictation.

With Siri, when you first start it up, you are asked to fill in some information, such as your name, email, and phone number.  If you do not know why they are asking, you may forgo wanting to fill it out.  However, the reason behind asking you to fill it out is quite good, and really what makes Siri such a great application for the iPhone.

To give you a real world example of how Siri works, and how we used it ourselves, we would like you to imagine Valentines is coming up (which it already did), and you need to make a reservation to a restaurant.  You open up the Siri app, state the name of the restaurant and location (San Diego for us), and it will do a search for you.  Once it has found restaurant X, you state, “Reservation for two on Sunday February 14, at 6:00pm”.  Since you had previously entered your info before, you have no need to call the restaurant to give name, phone, or email.  They will be notified, and within moments, you will be notified via Siri (and email) of your confirmation.  However, this does not work for all the restaurants, and when it does not, it does suggest to you, “would you like to call said place?”.  You can check out their video below this text:

In addition to this great scenario we just explained, it also does show Yelp reviews of what other people have thought of the business you are interested in visiting.  All in all, we were very pleased with the App, and highly recommend it to anyone.

Until next time.

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