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Siri

Angel Padial Madero

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Introduction

• Siri is an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge

navigator

• The App uses a natural language

• This app answer questions, make recommendations and

perform actions desired by the user

• Siri means in Norwegian :

"beautiful woman who leads you to victory"

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Introduction

• Siri is only available for iOS

• Its support 9 different idioms

• Siri adapts to the customer preferences over time

• Siri's primary technical areas focus on a Conversational

Interface, Personal Context Awareness, and Service

Delegation.

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Foundation

• The idea of Siri started as a project of the USA army but it was

developed by SRI International

• Siri was created in December of 2007 by Dag Kittlaus , Adam

Cheyer, Tom Gruber and Norman Winarsky

• Siri was originally introduced as an iOS application available in the

App Store

• In the first years they grew very rapidly

• Siri was acquired by Apple on April 28, 2010

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Foundation

• October of 2008 8,5 M $

• November of 2009 15,5 M $

• April of 2010 (around) 200 M $

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How it works?

• Siri works with a natural language user interface for

voice recognition

• Siri has personal context awareness, so it helps to make

the desired request

• When Siri know what we want, delegate requests to a

set of Web Services

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How it works?

• Your speech is interpreted in your phone and in a server

at the same time

• When it understood a series of vowels and consonants it

create a candidate list of interpretations of your speech

might mean

• Siri communicates with servers in the cloud to interpret

your requests and retrieve the information you need

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How it works?

• Maybe Siri can perform your request in the phone so

stop the communication with the server

• If Siri doesn’t understand you, she can give you a list of

choices or just indicate that she didn’t understand

• People have created a Siri Proxy that allow you to build

and run plug-ins to add custom features to Siri

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Siri’s limitations

• Siri needs a good connection to internet to perform the

requests

• You must speack clarely to Siri in order she can

understand you

• Siri can misinterpret you

• Siri doesn’t understand all spelling variations (i.e. Jeff or

Geoff)

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What does Siri for us?

• Find a restaurand

• Know the score of your team

• Buy tickets

• Post in facebook

• Send a tweet

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What does Siri for us?

• Launch an App

• Check the weather

• Send a text

• Find information

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What does Siri for us?

• Set alarms

• Get directions

• Siri takes dictations

• Eyes free

• And much more…

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Examples

Innsbruck

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Examples

Find a restaurant in Innsbruck

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Examples

Check the weather in Innsbruck

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Examples

Search hotels in Innsbruck

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Examples

Look for the score

of Bayern Munich

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Examples

Play the song Sweet Nothing

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Examples

STI University of Innsbruck

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Examples

Search the web…

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Examples

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References

• http://www.apple.com/es/ios/siri/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri

• http://www.imore.com/siri

• http://www.applesfera.com/iphone/siri-el-nuevo-asistente-personal-del-

iphone-4s-que-entiende-lo-que-dices

• http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-

gadgets/siri1.htm

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Any questions?

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