Android users who have a voice-activated assistant, as Siri want to be able to get their chance with a new program, but the clone would threaten the moral awareness and brand 4S Apple iPhone add-on.
The clone named “Iris”, or Siri in the opposite direction, was in just eight hours during a hackathon Dexetra.com of workers who built start to Siri, the new feature only reproduce on the iPhone 4S.
When Siri, Iris allows users via voice on various subjects, including art, literature, biology, and more are looking for. For example, if you ask, “what kind of fish,” he will show you a paragraph from Wikipedia about the creatures.
Reviewers said the new application is a bit sparse, but they found that Android uses the existing speech-to-text features to the program that the team continues to expand app on their work.
“When we began to see results, everyone got excited and began racing at high speed encoding,” said team leader Narayan Babu. “At no time, we have a voice command, text-to-speech … It was late evening, we decided on the name of the iris, Siri is a step backwards. We were still in the fun mode, but when we are with it began, the results were really good, really good. ”
Work is currently underway to build the application to a larger capacity, but Iris could be some problems legally marketed Android have. Rival Apple has little tolerance for Android, especially as Steve Jobs promised the end, “destroy” and accused Google of the OS to copy Apple systems and design for its development.
Iris is the product of a hackathon fun will be valid for a Siri attention on any one days stand-in. However, if Apple decides to protect its investment in Siri, copied to another system, the clone could be short-lived.
The app is welcomed by some analysts to prove that the Android developers some quick, precise force software includes additional features for Android devices could be added. Iris can keep Android toe-to-toe with rival iOS, but the software can prepare for a major battle when it goes into the market.