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

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Posted October 15, 2011 at 5:43am by Shalom Levytam

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 - 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 - 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.

By the way... Still great work for those that really want it.

Rod - October 15, 2011 at 1:48pm

Nice to know! Keep up the good work...

Hugo - October 15, 2011 at 1:35pm

Keep up the good work Guys :D what would we do without u!?

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 - October 15, 2011 at 6:42pm

Actually Siri was an AppStore app, but Apple acquired it.

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 - 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 - 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 - October 15, 2011 at 5:23pm

Not quite the same, and much less natural than Siri, but better than nothing! :)

iGramatika Pro - October 15, 2011 at 9:06am

The lagging of the iPhone is caused by a driver problem of the GPU. It is not that Siri is too heavy for the hardware! Good luck!

Apple lover - October 15, 2011 at 8:04am

No wonder, it's apple they'll buy it..

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 - 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...

Junaid - October 15, 2011 at 6:51am

iPhone 4 is dieing, not worth having Siri on iPhone 4

ukeagle - October 15, 2011 at 8:04am

*dying

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