When Apple introduced Siri in 2011 it was very good. Users could begin to ask our iPhone to do some things, such as scheduling appointments, alarms or perform searches on the internet, but that is no longer sufficient in 2016. Now the competition who is taking a step to the front and Siri is being being a bit estancad @, but the good news is that Apple is fully aware of this and is preparing to release a major update that you could see the light within less than two weeks in the WWDC 2016.
Last year, Apple bought the company from the United Kingdom VocalIQ and many sources say that Tim Cook and company thought that its technology would be so impressive that they wanted to buy it to avoid it is launched as an application for smartphone or another company will bring forward. These sources also suggest that the new virtual assistant of Apple it will be much more robust and capable than the virtual attendees that currently exist as Cortana or Google Assistant.
Siri could regain his crown this year
One of the aspects that will make the new version of Siri a superior virtual assistant is that VocalIQ has tested your product and the competition using techniques of natural colloquial language as we would talk about humans. In numbers, the product of VocalIQ got a success rate of 90% understanding what you were asking it on issues such as “find me a local Italian restaurant that offers Wi-Fi and has no parking“. On the other hand, the competition, as the current version of Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa and Cortana, only could understand and provide valid results, 20% of the time.
As I write these data, seems to me an important qualitative leap so I have doubts that this will see the light this year. But many rumors say that Apple will launch an intelligent speaker this summer and this version of Siri would be a very important selling point, so anything is possible. Let us hope that the rumors are true and see the new version of Siri on June 13.
