Siri for iPhone 4s Meet Iris for Android

In all the ads for the new iPhone 4s, the main portion of what they are marketing is Siri.  Siri is a voice recognition program that intelligently responds to your questions.  For an overview of all the things that it can do, click here.  Siri is only available on the iPhone 4s

There were some similar apps to this in the Android platform, but when Siri came out, one development team (Dexetra) went into an eight hour binge to come up with a comparative app for Android.  After the eight hours, Iris was born.  

To give you an idea of what Iris is capable of, check out these screen shots.  What is in white is what I dictated to the device.  In Blue is the answer from Iris (these were taken on my Samsung Droid Charge).

So, you can see a couple of things from this.  A: Iris has a bit of an attitude when it doesn't know the answer and B: It might be a little dated when it comes to the Jim Tressel reference...

Here is another mix up that Iris had in my testing...

Oh, and by the way, this is what a Pug Jack Russel mix really looks like (not quite the worst thing that one could imagine):

So, all in all, the Iris program has a bit to do to go all the way to Apple's Siri, but given that this program was only made in 8 hours, I think Android's version of Siri will only get better.  In the meantime, we can still sit back and enjoy all the mix ups that it is giving us.

Here are some links to some of the apps and devices that I talk about in this post:

Iris Android App