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Microsoft Executive: ‘Siri’s Nothing Special, We’ve Had it for Over a Year’

Microsoft Executive: ‘Siri’s Nothing Special, We’ve Had it for Over a Year’

In an interview with Forbes, a Microsoft chief executive has dismissed Siri, climbing that similar voice recognition software has already been present in Windows Phone 7 for a year.

In Microsoft’s credit, the software they use is actually pretty advanced, but I think Siri is just a bit more versatile. You can say things a number of different ways and Siri will understand, and as far as I know from watching demos on the internet, you have to say things in a certain way for Windows phone to respond in the correct way. Please tell me if I’m wrong, but I think Siri is more adaptable.

If you want to skip to the relevant part of the above video, it’s at 1:51.