Siri Virtual Assistant: Everything you should know about Apple’s AI

Siri Virtual Assistant

Siri Virtual Assistant: Everything you should know about Apple’s AI

Siri is a personal voice assistant with Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is present on all modern Apple devices.

This is a known-fact that Virtual Voice Assistant began with Siri.

Siri is the equivalent of Google Assistant on iPod, iPad, Mac Apple Watch, Apple Tv and HomePod.

It was initially developed as a separate application on Apple Store until 2011 that Apple acquired Siri and the app ceased to exist.

And then, it showed on iPhone4S-as a component of the software and ever since it has started making ways in most Apple products.

Hey Siri, who are you?

What can you do?

Hey, Siri, you have got so many people talking; hope you can deliver?

Despite all the wonderful personal questions you will want to ask Siri about herself, she won’t get into any details.

If you are to ask the question “Hey, Siri, who are you?”

She may tell you, “I, don’t want to talk about myself” because I think she does not know more about herself!

She’s an artificial intelligence app create by Apple to make your life better.

The application comes with many features with voice, working as an interactive organizer for meetings, the setting of alarm or as a wake-up caller.

Technology is the new frontier of advancement!

Having to wake-up to an interactive Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can read the latest news headlines, read your favorite horoscope, remind you about your schedules for the day is awesome!

Sending messages, researching with a search engine has not become easier than it was with Siri AI as it freely interacts with other apps on your phones or PC.

Have you ever thought of Google Assistant and what you should know about it?

Google have been up and coming and has made Google Assistant an App that we all want to identify with.

There is more to Google Assistant, the question is, what do you know about Google Assistant ?

See: Everything you need to know about Microsoft Cortana Artificial Intelligence app

What is Siri?

Like Google Assistant is to Android Devices, so is Siri to Apple devices.

Therefore, Siri is a built-in voice-controlled personal assistant that is available for Apple users.

The app is developed to offer human-like interaction between a person and his phone or other devices compactable with the app.

It aims at helping you to get things done by voice control.

Likewise, it was designed to interact with your iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, Apple Watch, etc to make interaction with devices by dialoguing.

You can ask her question(s) or issue a command; she obeys and performs the task effectively and efficiently like a human and gives you the feedback.

Generally speaking, Siri is another virtual assistant that is developed, maintained and run through Apple’s product all over most of Apple products in the world.

Virtual Assistant Siri is based on a learnable artificial intelligence technology.

Like any other smart Assistant out there, it is designed to aid you via voice command when your hands cannot be used.

How to activate Siri

Siri can easily be activated by holding down the “Home Button” on your iOS device until it beeps up to live by showing Siri’s interface.

Siri Virtual Assistant

While on iOS, you can simply activate Siri like Google Assistant  by saying “Hey Siri”.

Virtual Assistant is designed not to be interacted with hands but by voice command.

How do I Change Siri’s Gender and Accent?

Like most apps out there, you can change the voice setting of Siri to either a man or a woman.

All you need do is go straight into the Menu>system preferences and change the voice settings.

Siri's voice options for gender and dialect depend on the language you pick.

How many languages can Siri speak at the moment?

At the moment, Siri can speak and understand English (UK, New Zealand, US, Canada, India), Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Thai and major language around the world.

Get the full list of countries where Siri is available, fully functional by visiting “Apple’sFeatures availability website”

Main features of Siri from Apple:

Siri Virtual Assistant

Siri can do a lot of things.

She’s pretty smart, stubborn and sometimes she’s funny.

In case, you are wondering what Siri can do!

Don’t crack your brain. Because I have some rundown of what she can do;

Make a call to the user from the contact list of you’re a phone

Siri's most powerful and reliable feature is voice-command.

You can use it to call any person in the contact list of your phone by simply telling it who to call.

For instance;

“Hey Siri call mom with the speaker”

The app will respond by calling the contact mom from your phone and putting the call on speaker.

This feature comes in handy when you are driving your car, or you are cooking and your phone is close to you.

Just tell her what to do and she will in no time.

Facetime with Friends and Family

With Siri, you don’t need to open Facetime to talk with another person face-to-face, it will do it for you.

Just decide on who you want to talk or Facetime with.

Choose your preference in making a Facetime call by deciding it to be a video or just audio call.

Inform Siri about your decision and it will grant it to you like a wish come true.

Send a message to spouse or contact

Siri is also great at sending messages to loved ones, or people in your phone contact list.

It does not take a genius to figure out that Siri as an app can send a message to anyone.

To do this, just tell the app “Hey Siri” send a message to mom and tell her I would be running late due to unforeseen circumstances.

The app will do as instructed without hesitation.

Post to Twitter or Facebook

It’s not just sending messages to the people in the contact list, and can also do so on social media accounts effectively and efficiently.

To ease your day, Siri can reply your messages on social media like Twitter or Facebook.

Just tell Siri to post a message on the social platform and it will ask you what message to post.

Dictates the message clearly and Siri will write it down and send it to the recipient.

Search for things on the Internet

One of the things Siri does effectively is to search the internet for information concerning certain things.

Siri Virtual Assistant

The keyword or key-phrase does not matter, what matters is, just tell Siri what to do and it will do it with ease on the net.

Siri will use a variety of web searches to generate a search result page that matches the keywords or phrase in what you have asked it.

If you want to know about a movie let’s say “The Matrix”

Without a doubt, it will give you a whole page of search result about the movie “The Matrix”

Like most virtual assistant app on your mobile device or your television, they almost work in similar ways to realize the task assigned to them.

Other things Siri can do includes;

Set a reminder.

Launch the camera and take a picture for the user.

Find a restaurant, a hotel or any other institution.

Play music on the phone or search for it online and play it.

Do translations and conversion as instructed by the user.

Play Tv shows and movies.

Tell jokes to the listening pleasure of the user.

Check for weather reports and forecasts.

Control house lightening system by increasing the light or decreasing it.

Search emails

Pronounce names correctly

How to disable and remove Siri?

Not all users of iPhone and iPad gadgets regularly employ the services of a mobile Assistant.

When the service of a particular app is not needed, there is no need of leaving it to consume useable memory space on the phone.

This is why you need to know how to remove or disable Siri on your mobile phone.

The algorithm depends on the type of device and model.

Watch this video  and acquaint yourself on how to do what you want.

On a Final Note

As a tool, Siri can perform many functions and is compactable with most apps on any device.

Siri as an app is not perfect, but it will meet up with your expectations in style and functionalities.

Artificial Intelligence is springing like antibodies and developing at a spontaneous rate to cope with the needs and desires of the people.

That’s why soon, we will expect more from artificial intelligence like Siri and Google Assistant.