SIRI

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CONTENTS
What is Siri?
History
Speech Recognition
Fundamentals of Speech Recognition
How it works?
Three stages of working.
What Can SIRI Do ?
How many languages does Siri support.
What are the Positive Points of SIRI?
What are the Negative Points of SIRI?
Conclusion


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What is SIRI?
Siri is an intelligent personal assistant helps
you to get things just by asking.
Siri on iPhone & iPad lets you use your voice
to send messages, schedule meetings, place
phone calls, and more.
The word SIRI stands for Speech Interpretation
& Recognition Interface.
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Siri understands what you say, knows what
you mean, and even talks back.
Siri unlike traditional voice recognition
software does not require to remember
keywords and speaks specific commands.
Siri understands our natural speech & it asks
you questions if it need more information to
complete a task.
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Siri uses 3G and Wi-Fi networks to
communicate rapidly with Apples data
centers.
It helps Siri to understand what you say &
what youre asking for, then quickly return a
response.
Siri uses the processing power of dual-core A5
chip in iPhone 4S.
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History
Siri was founded in 2007 by Dag Kittlaus,
Adam Cheyer and Tom Gruber together with
Norman Winarsky from SRI International's
venture group.
Siri's speech recognition engine is thought to
be provided by Nuance Communications, a
speech technology company, although this has
not been officially acknowledged by either
Apple or Nuance.


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Siri is a spin-out from the SRI International
Artificial Intelligence Center and is the hard
work of about 40 years of research.
Siri was acquired by Apple on April 28,2010
and original application ceased to function on
October 15,2011.
Apple introduced the iPhone 4S with
implementation of Siri on October 4,2011.

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Speech Recognition

-Technology behind Siri
Speech Recognition(SR) is the technology that
can translate spoken words into text.
These systems analyze the persons specific
voice and use it to fine tune the recognition of
that persons speech which results in more
accurate transcription.
Some SR system need training are called
speaker dependent systems. SIRI is a speaker
independent system.
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Fundamentals of Speech Recognition
Its a multileveled pattern recognition task.
In this, acoustical signals are examined &
structured into a hierarchy of sub word units,
word, phrases & sentences.
The structure of a standard speech recognition
system is illustrated in figure.
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How it works?
Raw speech- speech is typically sampled at a high
frequency. This yields a sequence of amplitude
values over time.
Signal analysis- Raw speech should be
transformed &compressed in order to simplify
subsequent processing. Many signal analysis
techniques are available that can extract useful
features &compress the data by a factor of ten
without losing any important information.
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Speech frames- The result of signal anaysis is a
sequence of speech frames. These frames may be
augmented by their own 1
s t
& 2
nd
derivatives,
providing explicit information about speech
dynamics, this leads to improved performance.
Acoustic models- in order to analyze the speech
frames for their acoustic contents, we need a set
of acoustic models. It is created by taking audio
recordings of speech and their text transcriptions,
and using software to create statistical
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representations of the sounds that make up each
word. It is used by a speech recognition engine to
recognize speech.
Acoustic Analysis: A type of research in which the
sounds of a dialect or language are studied with
sound analysis equipment for various
properties. Acoustic analysis is often used to
measure vowel position, vowel length, and prosody.
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iCloud
ICloud is a cloud storage service

from Apple.
Cloud storage is a model of networked online
storage where data is stored in virtualized
pools of storage.
The service allows users to store data such as
music and iOS applications on remote
computer servers for download to multiple
devices such as iOS-based devices running
iOS5.


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IRIS
IRIS is a personal assistant application for Android. The
application uses natural language processing to answer
questions based on user voice request.
IRIS currently supports Call, Text, Contact Lookup and
Web Search actions including playing videos, movies
reviews, recipes, news, weather, places and others. It
was developed in 8 hours by Narayan Babu and his
team at Dexetra Software Solutions Private Limited, a
Kochi based firm.
The name is Siri backwards, Siri being the original
application for the same use owned by Apple and
stands for "Intelligent Rival Imitator of Siri".

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With the app, an Android user can just "ask"
Iris instead of "Google-searching" for
information. The developers claim Iris can talk
on topics ranging from Philosophy, Culture,
History, science to general conversation.
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Stage 1 : Sound to Digital Text
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Siri: Send
message to Steve
Siri

Send

message

to

Steve
Result: Digital text
Stage 2 : Grammar Analysis & String Matching
Digitized text
SERVER
(APPLEs DB)
Set of Commands
Comparing Of
Digitized Text with
DB(i.e knowing of
grammar words n
matching the
strings) & A.I
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Stage 3 : Set of Service Execution
Set of command
from Apples DB to
device
Execution of Commands
What Can SIRI Do ?
Few Things That Siri Can Do:
Make A Call
Send A Message
Set A Remainder
Check The Weather
Find Information
Schedule Meetings
Send Email
Find A Contact
Set A Alarm
Get Directions
Check The Stock Market
Set Timer
Play Music

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English
Spanish
French
German
Japanese
Canadian French
Italian
Mandarin
Swiss French
Swiss German
Cantonese
Korean
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How many Languages does SIRI supports ?
What are the Positive Points of SIRI?
SIRI is EASY to use.
SIRI is HANDS-FREE.
SIRI works as GUIDE while travelling.
SIRI act as a ASSISTANCE schedules all your time,etc
Siri is also helpful for blind people to use mobile
phones.


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What are the Negative Points of SIRI?

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SIRI works its Best only in AMERICA.
SIRIs AI is Advance enough but still has some minor
problems.
Siri understands only few languages.
Geographic limitations.
Conclusion
Siri is an tremendous invention of 21
st
century.
Though it also have some limitations. Siris
inventors trying to making it popular all over
the world by introducing it in almost all
languages. Scientists are trying to implement
this technology on computers by developing
the software more efficiently. It is not far that
the computer will become Eyes free.
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Any Questions?
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