Siri for everyone, with Pioneer's Zypr API

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by llambda • 15 years ago

53 17 15 years ago

if they can't keep up a demo website, there is no reason any developer should trust pioneer to invest their time in testing / using zypr...

lukeholder3• 15 years ago

haha, I saw the site was down and thought... "my app will not use an api from a company that cannot keep a static site up"

untog• 15 years ago

This is why I don't get the fuss everyone is making about Siri in relation to being an "{x}-killer". While the tech is impressive, it's going to be reproduced very easily- Google could dedicate a tiny amount of their resources to it and have a Siri competitor on Android within a couple of months.

lukeholder3• 15 years ago

While this is true, first to mainstream market mindshare is important - also, allot of people love their iphones, and siri isn't just a search tool, it integrates with the local phone services like geo fence reminders and app API's. And we know how big that app store is.

creativeembassy• 15 years ago

I agree with your later points, but Apple themselves have demonstrated over and over that "first to mainstream market mindshare" is not important. Just because they're first on the market with Siri doesn't mean that the leader of this niche will still be Siri in two years.

And they're really not first on the market anyhow; look at the existing Android application or the first Siri iPhone app. I think Pioneer's Zypr website is pretty clear that they're relying on developers to use their API and create apps to use it for integration. This is just another open-model answer to Apple's typically closed-model approach.

nu232• 15 years ago

I guess one reason people see siri as a threat to google is that if voice based interfaces take off, no matter who does it, there is less scope for advertisements - which are more annoying when spoken out loud. It's still too soon to say, of course, maybe voice apps will always be a smaller share or google could possibly find another business model.

alexhawdon• 15 years ago

Whilst I do agree it changes things, this type of interface doesn't necessarily rule out advertising.

At the end of the day, someone needs to pay the bills. With Siri, you're arguably paying the bill when you give your money to Apple.

A future free 'Siri', from Google or elsewhere, might have to rely on advertising money. A lot of Siri's functionality is search - there's no reason why Siri couldn't serve up sponsored results when you make a search just as we're used to with more traditional search engines.

masonhensley• 15 years ago

Direct link to product site. (working as of Monday 11/7 2:00p CST): http://www.zypr.net/

togasystems• 15 years ago

Does anybody know how deep their natural language processing is? i.e. Will it understand when I ask 'List all of my Twitter followers how also follow John Doe?'

tambourine_man• 15 years ago

But does it work? Siri's main advantage is that it does most of the time. We've had speech recognition for a long time, but it just wasn't reliable.

wslh• 15 years ago

There is an API freely available on .NET (assuming you have a Microsoft Windows OS) for voice recognition and text to speech. There are even multiple language kits.

If you are interested I wrote an article about it a few weeks ago: http://blog.databigbang.com/voice-recognition-content-extrac...

hoschi• 15 years ago

I built a Zypr clone for software development -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3214934

Siri for everyone, with Pioneer's Zypr API

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