Siri in iOS 6
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 11, 2012 2:10 PM EST- Posted in
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Apple is going through its demo of Siri in iOS 6. Siri is getting significant updates, Apple is now demonstrating Siri's extensive knowledge of sports statistics. Player stats, league standings and results from games across basketball, hockey, soccer, baseball and football are all included.
Siri now includes more details about restaurants including average prices for meals. There's also integration with Yelp (reviews present in Siri) and OpenTable to make reservations.
Siri now knows about movies. You can ask it about actors and directors.
Siri can now launch apps and games.
A number of car makers will be including support for Eyes Free operation with Siri. A button on supported vehicles will activate Siri on a car-docked iPhone without turning on the display. The manufacturers pictured below plan to deploy support for Eyes Free within the next 12 months.
Siri in iOS 6 will come to the new iPad, as well as support all of the languages featured below:
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GeorgeH - Monday, June 11, 2012 - link
So Siri will support American, English, Australian, AND Canadian!?Holy crap, the future is here! O_O
dman3k - Monday, June 11, 2012 - link
Taiwan and China both speak Mandarin Chinese too.BSMonitor - Monday, June 11, 2012 - link
Does any other language really matter? Chinese writing is so F'ed and bloated.. No wonder they can get away with Communism.. It would be impossible to teach so many people that crap...Patflute - Monday, June 11, 2012 - link
Siri did not do this before? ...Impulses - Monday, June 11, 2012 - link
I'm surprised they need special support for car integration... Seems unnecessary, why not just make Siri activate in Eyes Free mode when it detects it's connected to a car's Bluetooth, and have interact with standard Bluetooth protocols (which Apple has always had some disdain for apparently).Wolfpup - Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - link
...?