Will iOS 5 get integrated voice tech?

TechCrunch is reporting the rumor today, and some sources I have close to the Siri product think it is likely happening.

Siri is that very cool personal assistant app. It allows you to ask questions that the app sends (as your voice data) to a server where it is recognized. The query is then sent off to a series of search engines to find an answer, which is finally returned to the user. You can ask for things like the best area pizza shop, the status of an arriving flight or the weather in Omaha. The speech recognition in the app comes from Nuance, the company that developed Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search.

Last year, Apple bought Siri, and it seems likely that the tech will find its way into Apple products, especially iDevices. Siri is a very clever app, and it has always made a great demo on my iPhone. To have it built into iOS would be great. It appears Apple is trying to wean itself off Google services, like Search and Maps, and Siri would be a step in that direction. If you don't have it already and want to play with Siri, you can get it free at the App Store. Prepare to be impressed.

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Amazon courting Apple's iOS developers to port apps to Kindle

Amazon is actively enticing Apple's iOS App Store developers to bring their efforts to the Kindle platform, particularly educational apps, in a strategy that attempts to push ebook readers up into competition with more sophisticated, general purpose tablets.

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Source: http://feeds.appleinsider.com/click.phdo?i=ccb2e894fbf04d82c98f29b90a70e4a9

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Rocketr Brings Social Notebooks to the iPhone

Groups are in when it comes to apps, and a new iPhone app aims to use groups to differentiate its note-taking capabilities. Rocketr is a simple, no-frills, cloud-synced note-taking web application which just got an official iPhone client, and it also has a seriously social side.

Source: http://gigaom.com/apple/rocketr-brings-social-notebooks-to-the-iphone/

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FaceTime is the star in The Blue Stones music video

And now for something completely different: a music video featuring FaceTime on a pair of iPhone 4s.

Canadian duo The Blue Stones created their video for the song "I'm A Stereo" using the iPhone 4s, FaceTime and strategically-placed duct tape. The latter was used to cover up the name info on the phones, but there's no hiding the fact that the band members are guitarist/vocalist Tarek Jafar and drummer/backup vocalist Justin Tessier.

It's a pretty catchy song and video, and it shows once again just how embedded Apple technology is in our popular culture. Enjoy the video on the next page, and remember when these guys become The Next Big Thing that you saw 'em here on TUAW.

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FaceTime is the star in The Blue Stones music video originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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