New era in computing began today, and as often during the past decade - Apple is responsible for this start. The company made portable audio players, multimedia shopping network, touch
interfaces and tablet PCs to the Word the next big ", she did it again. And this time it is voice control takes up the center stage. In an event held on campus a few hours Cupertino company, which in California, Apple announced the integration of software Siri - phone voice control system, the device iPhone 4S - new phone announced at the event. Unlike the previous iPhone announcements, pots was placed in the center of the declaration, and the new iron. While that is 2 times faster than its predecessor, with better camera and better battery life, but the pots is truly revolutionary.
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Understand you, not just understand commands (photo: publicists) During the event, which launched the system, she was asked questions like "Find me a great Greek restaurant in Palo Alto" (The answer: find all Greek restaurants in Palo Alto and arrange them according to rating), "How many days left till Christmas?" (Answer: 82) and 'I need an umbrella now? " (Answer: the weather forecast). Beyond that, you can read documents pots, set appointments for you and more.Meanwhile, it must be said, in English, German and French only. And that, precisely, lies the genius of Apple - Vangst new technologies and turning them into something that consumers can understand, and consumers can use it. Voice control is nothing new. Even the "Windows" support for a number of years of committing acts of voice, and Android put this possibility long ago. And it's not that people do not know about these possibilities - certainly they know. But the adoption of this technology terribly slow. The reason: She's just not convenient enough. You need to get used to the computer, figure out what orders he would understand and how to talk to him - not vice versa.Pots, from what we saw tonight, is the first example of software that really can not understand you.
Talking with computer
This program was born out of CALO - one of the great artificial intelligence projects held in the U.S.. The purpose of the project would cause the computer to understand you - not the specific commands that if a natural language, which people talk amongst themselves - and help you. And pots wanted to do it on aiPhone. performance, it must be said, were good to Apple Regulation provides the company that manufactures the last year. Pots, that we get in the new 4S iPhone is not just an iPhone app. Apple made her become an integral part of the device - one that can access all the software built into it and talk to them. And not only them - pots know "talk" with Wikipedia, no less importantly, with Wolfram Alpha - search engine designed to find Web pages not only to calculate answers to questions by accessing an amazing amount of statistical information.
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A year ago, said chief technology officer at HP, Phil McKinney, an interview! TECH that is why people still use the mouse and keyboard is not that better solutions, but that these solutions are not good enough to make people switch to them. He said, for A 10-percent improvement in comfort, no one will get used to again perform operations that have already become almost - instinctive, but for an improvement of 50 percent already have something to talk about. and pots, assuming you did manage to learn us well enough, is the point of this change. That the end of the day, much more convenient to dictate text to your computer as if we have helped close, than print it using a keyboard. And much more convenient to say the phone "When my flight to New York out?" Than go and check it by mail. If you think about it for a second, you will find a lot of actions that can become easier thanks to voice control.In two weeks we see the broad market action pots when it will ship with iPhone 4S. Then we can start to see if she can fulfill the promise, if it really is easy enough - more so people will start using it. If so, no doubt compete with Apple, such as Google, will start work very hard to advance the technology further.Just as iPod, iPhone and iPad did their industries - they made them begin to develop much faster than before. And then, then a new era begins today will become a reality for us all.
