Video : WP Dev’s Answers to iPhone’s Siri : Ask Ziggy
Surprise Surprise, I am not sure how many people it took to develop Siri but it took just on Dev, Shai Leib , to create an app which works like Siri and can do almost everything if not exactly and the best part is this app WORKS and is free for you to download. And it’s called as Ask Ziggy, I would not be surprised if the Dev and the app gets into Windows Phone Officially. Via Engadget
Ziggy Developer, Shai Leib says ( How does this works ?)
Ask Ziggy uses Speech Recognition to translate human speech into transcribed text, which is displayed in a speech bubble. The transcribed text is analyzed for patterns to detect commands or general queries.
Commands are interpreted and routed to routine phone tasks such as emailing, texting, calling, social network updates, and getting directions.
When a general question is asked, a mixture of mash up technologies and web scraping is employed to search the web for relevant responses. Pattern matching is used to summarize a direct answer from a web page.
Several passes may be required to find a concise answer. A direct answer is then spoken out loud, and displayed in a speech bubble. When a direct answer cannot be summarized the user is prompted by speech to click on their search bubble to see web search results based on their spoken query.
He also said that future version of Ziggy will include an expanded speech grammar and support various language including language translations.
Though I am not sure how the Translation part will work but if it can do a real-time translate like Android does, it will be breaking for the app.
What is interesting to see is that it not only beats the Tell Me app for Windows Phone but when it comes to voice recognition ( I have an Indian Accent ) but it can actually understand it where many a times Tell Me has failed.
This app will impress you on being fast and if you see the official video you can figure it out that you don’t have to wait too long however don’t rush till you get response back .
Before you start wondering let me help you clearing a fact that does not speak each and everything but it does find the answer via searches except for calculations. So if you ask MSFT stock value, it will open a search page.
Questions Ziggy can answer :
- Calling a person or number
- Send Text message or Email over voice i.e. Email Wife I am running late and so on.
- Update status message on twitter and Facebook through Windows Phone ME Tile.
- Calculations : Simple additions, multiplication even for decimal places work.
- Directions : Picks up your current location and displays things near by on your phone.
- Flight Status combining
- Stock Prices using the Ticket Symbol
- Weather
Video Demo
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