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We all know with Siri can do. But if she's found a place in a daily routine is another issue altogether, but it's pretty clear that Apple humble personal assistant is unlike any other voice recognition app.

But Siri's real expertise lies not in her encyclopedic knowledge or weather forecasting; what makes the technology so amazing and useful is its ability to actually understand what we're saying – so much so that the iPhone speech recognition is just as useful when Siri isn't something. Parenthesis don't might not be as much fun to show your friends.)

Anytime the keyboard comes up, iPhone for S users will notice a tiny microphone icon next to the last of the. Selecting it brings up Siri's familiar interface with one exception: Series on a coffee break. Instead, apple's new West-license dictation is turned on, and the word you say are instantly converted to text (once you tap "done "on your phone, anyway). Of course, you need to interact with your phone's touchscreen a little more than you would with Siri at your side, but you're also be able to get more done.

Apple Apps

Dictation works remarkably well with all of Apple's iPhone apps, but it really shines and now Notes Pages and anywhere else to predictor keyboard – no matter how much better it's gotten – still stand in the way of progress. Dictation is great for taking notes and writing lengthy emails – especially if you want to save a draft a back up to iCloud, two of Siri's notable shortcomings. (However accurate dictation is, though, and health to have a pretty good idea of what you want to say; your phone will try to interpret your "homes "and "'s "actual words, so you have to do a fair amount of editing. Parenthesis it's not perfect by any means parenthesis see below), but Applemight just might have eliminated one more roadblock on the path to a post-PC world.

Dictation is also quite have helpful in Messages (but Siri is a better option here) and Reminders, Vanessa much and I can and maps. Our mileage very using Safari (for example, we still had a press the "Search" button), but we did notice that Apple turned off the future for all password fields – add I'll be a security measure, and we definitely could see a special Siri login feature built in to Safari downline.

Third-Party Apps

I was five and the iPhone 4S are both fairly new so the landscape isn't exactly teeming with dictation-ready apps, but Apple been kind enough to build this little microphone button into the OS-why keyboard. Since Apple is already done the heavy lifting, speech-to-text will work in any text field hot, but depending on the half and have a text is being inputted dictation might not actually save you anytime. If you have a favorite text editor or ListManager, dictation will be a godsend but search feels will be fairly useless. We tried using it with the word-heavy Sporck all apps, but again refused to recognize words that weren't typed.

However, since nuances speech recognition is so accurate, there're muriate options for developers to work dictation into haps once a proper Henry P hi is made available – such as Targets owned New when's-licensed "Speak to Search "feature that automatically scans available products upon hearing request, and I teleport, which leverage dictation to send text to a remote computer. And we bet that Twitter and Facebook – along with a slew of others — will be marrying their apps for dictation automation soon enough.

And Beyond

Since Apple wasn't even satisfied enough to take her out of beta mode, it's clear that great things are planned for Siri. When you think about it series more than just another killer app for the iPhone 4S, it's a whole new input interface and we already see it in action with composing emails and getting directions with Siri but speech could take overcomplicated gestures on the iPhone, iPad and, yes, even the Mac. they're already rumors about Siri replacing the remote in the fabled Apple TV set and it's entirely believable (assuming you believe the TV room are in first place). Research missy Siri make its way to the Mac sometime next year, has Apple perfect this speech-to-text technology expect to be talking a whole lot more our computers and doing a whole lot less double-clicking.