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Progress Made on Porting Siri to the iPhone 4 [Video]

Progress Made on Porting Siri to the iPhone 4 [Video]

Posted October 15, 2011 at 5:43am by iClarified
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Developer Steven Troughton-Smith has made some progress on porting Siri voice assistant to the iPhone 4, reports 9to5Mac.

Siri on the iPhone 4 can recognize spoken commands in both the standard Siri view and the keyboard Dictation view. The only issue at this point is that Apple is not authenticating (obviously) commands to its servers from iPhone 4 hardware. The Siri port to the iPhone 4, at this point, also has the ability to speak back to the user. You may notice Siri and the iPhone 4 acting very sluggish in the above video. The issue here is not Siri, but is that a special GPU driver for iPhone 4 is needed; and it is obviously not included in the iPhone 4S binary cache - where the Siri files are located.

We'll keep you up to date on the progress of this port...


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Romero126
Romero126 - October 17, 2011 at 3:27am
The Siri port to the iPhone 4 is pretty low end right now. I just checked it out and the API behind it and it is basically a dummy terminal with nothing behind it. I would love to say it'll be feasible in the future but the modules behind it is basically non existant.
Andrew
Andrew - October 15, 2011 at 3:04pm
Siri will be a novelty. How many people raved about it before it was bought by Apple? Faster processor for Apps that don't tax the A4? Why? The only people who will benefit from this new phone is gamers.
Andrew
Andrew - October 15, 2011 at 3:04pm
By the way... Still great work for those that really want it.
Rod
Rod - October 15, 2011 at 1:48pm
Nice to know! Keep up the good work...
Hugo
Hugo - October 15, 2011 at 1:35pm
Keep up the good work Guys :D what would we do without u!?
Khantastic
Khantastic - October 15, 2011 at 1:17pm
Vlingo is better than what it used to be, but nowhere close to Siri. The comparison is ridiculous.
Kazi Shantonu
Kazi Shantonu - October 15, 2011 at 6:42pm
Actually Siri was an AppStore app, but Apple acquired it.
EthanBB
EthanBB - October 15, 2011 at 11:25am
It looks legit ... Old proximity sensor, cydia installed (and I think 4S isn't JB-able, yet) We have hope :D
Kazi Shantonu
Kazi Shantonu - October 15, 2011 at 11:00am
I recommend using the free Vlingo voice app from the AppStore. It has the same functionality as Siri.
emiliosdance
emiliosdance - October 15, 2011 at 11:42am
Yea, it's the same and free , I use it for a month now and its great especially when you use a headset or a Bluetooth
Foobar
Foobar - October 15, 2011 at 5:23pm
Not quite the same, and much less natural than Siri, but better than nothing! :)
iGramatika Pro
iGramatika Pro - October 15, 2011 at 9:06am
People can't you read? The lagging of the iPhone is caused by a driver problem of the GPU. Its not that Siri is too heavy for the Hardware! Good luck!
Apple lover
Apple lover - October 15, 2011 at 8:04am
No wonder, it's apple they'll buy it..
NeHoMaR
NeHoMaR - October 15, 2011 at 7:08am
Why a so simple voice recognition software lag the iPhone that way? Actually, I am plenty sure that could run in ten years old phones.
Foobar
Foobar - October 15, 2011 at 9:01am
Reliable voice recognition that does not require previous training *is* very calculation intensive and thus it's only natural that iPhone 4S comes with dedicated H/W for that, not to mention twice as much CPU power as the previous iPhone 4...
NeHoMaR
NeHoMaR - October 15, 2011 at 6:19pm
I am in computing before you born.
Junaid
Junaid - October 15, 2011 at 6:51am
iPhone 4 is dieing, not worth having Siri on iPhone 4
ukeagle
ukeagle - October 15, 2011 at 8:04am
*dying
emiliosdance
emiliosdance - October 15, 2011 at 6:40am
I use Vlingo and its easy to install ad so far from my Htc experience its working just great
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