Apple lets me do this by using the Siri voice assistant on my iPhone.
Like a certain voice assistant rival, it does require a data connection because voice patterns are processed in the cloud.
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An interesting little piece in The Guardian about a competitor to Siri, the voice assistant on iPhones from Apple.
As we've already known, on the Siri front you can bring up sports ranking and Rotten Tomatoes movie ratings via the voice assistant.
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Like most Android phones, the S4 comes with a suite of useful Google apps, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps and the voice assistant Google Now.
Just to name a few: enhanced security, phone finder, Chinese voice assistant (apparently with 85 percent comprehension accuracy), more interactive themes and 5GB of cloud storage service with online client.
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With Google's voice assistant now available on iPhones and iPads, The Associated Press used an iPad Mini to throw five test questions at Google Now and Siri on Monday afternoon in New York.
Financial analysts worried that the aging glass-and-steel design would stunt sales, but the faster processor, better camera and Siri voice assistant -- plus the addition of a third major carrier, Sprint Nextel -- helped the smartphone maintain momentum.
The Note 10.1 launched last fall, but it received a software update with a new version of Android and a slew of other features like the voice assistant Google Now, which is a lot more impressive than Apple's original Siri.
It is widely believed that Apple (AAPL) is working on using Siri, first introduced as a virtual voice controlled assistant on iPhone 4S, as a voice remote control for Apple TV.
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The new voice activated assistant was going to be a search function for a mobile era.
On top of that, U.S. users can now purchase movie tickets through Fandango via Apple's voice-assistant Siri and iTunes Match subscribers can download individual songs to iOS devices from iCloud.
This sometimes confuses Siri, Apple's automated, voice-controlled assistant, and requires you to press an icon on the phone directing Siri to use the phone, not the Pebble.
Researchers are leveraging decades of speech recognition expertise to deliver a connected, voice-enabled virtual assistant for use by automotive manufacturers.
One of those features is a voice-activated "assistant, " similar to Apple's Siri service on the iPhone, people familiar with the matter have said.
Buttons set into the elegant metal casing allow you to adjust the volume, select music titles, take phone calls and activate voice control or personal assistant features.
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This can be used not only to adjust the volume and select tracks, but also to take phone calls and activate the voice control or personal assistant features.
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For all of Mountain Lion's iOS-derived goodness, one highlight plenty of folks would love to see in OS X is still missing in action: Siri, the voice-controlled personal assistant.
Siri, a voice-controlled virtual personal assistant that relies on artificial intelligence, is the most advertised feature of the new iPhone 4S from Apple (AAPL).
"Thank God we weren't trying to remake the sacred classic that everybody loves, " says Zach Braff, who plays both Diggs' underappreciated circus assistant and provides the voice of a computer generated flying monkey.
Google Glass would use natural language voice recognition to operate, making it a perfect candidate for virtual assistant integration.
Nina is significant because it is the first virtual assistant customer service app to incorporate both speech recognition and voice biometrics into a single integrated solution.
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Her voice had the power to "light up a room, " according to Jane Owen, assistant headteacher at Ysgol Morgan Llwyd, who taught Ms Smiga drama.
Dragon TV is a part of Nuance's portfolio of voice, touch and natural language understanding innovations that are defining a new generation of intelligent systems and personal assistant technologies, which also includes Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Dragon Dictate for Mac, Dragon Assistant for Intel-inspired Ultrabooks, Dragon Dictation, Dragon Go!
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