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Apple Buys Siri, Maker of Voice Driven Personal Search

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Apr 28, 2010, 2:41 PM by Philip Berne

According to the FTC and Robert Scoble, Apple this week acquired Siri, a software maker that specializes in voice driven search software. By tying together various APIs from across the Web, from such services as OpenTable, Twitter and Rotten Tomatoes, among many others, Siri has concocted a voice search that relies more on natural speech. With so many services to search, Siri also specializes in directing its software to find the right service for the best answer. Scoble speculates that Apple may have had Google in mind when it purchased Siri. Google's current Android 2.1 OS includes voice-to-text combined with Google search, but does not link that search to popular APIs, as Siri's Personal Assistant app does.

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