Siri is not just any Voice Recognition Application that you have used or heard about before. It’s a Holy Grail of Artificial Intelligence and human like speech. We have never before come across an application that is both intelligent and can talk like a human being at the same time, even answering silly questions to perfection like, ‘Why did the chicken cross the road’.

Till now there were 3 ways to interact with devices, Keyboard, Mouse and Gestures. Siri with the power of Human Speech, the most effective way of human communication, is going to be a game changer in many fields including Smart Phones, Search and other technologies. Some day technologies like Google Search will become obsolete unless they will find some ways to get around.

With pasts as back as 1966, Siri is an outcome of work done by many different groups including DARPA, SRI International, many Universities and Apple of course. Dag Kittlaus , Siri Inc.’s former CEO and co-founder and Adam Cheyer, Siri Inc.’s former VP Engineering and co-founder are considered the two fathers of Siri which now belongs to Apple. But it was the ingenuity of Apple that brought Siri to a whole new level, making it possible to realize it’s potential and bringing it to the public by including it in iPhone 4S.

Siri is just in version 1.0 now. With Apple as it’s Godfather Siri is heading towards bright future, as a technology that will be an inevitable part of our future. Either be Artificial intelligence or Context awareness Siri would have it all and would be a synergy of what technology will have to offer us.

Here’s a list of what Siri can do till now. (Courtesy to Brian Roemmele, Alchemist & Metaphysician at Quora)

• Does Things For You- Task completion:

- Multiple Criteria Vertical and Horizontal searches
- On the fly combining of multiple information sources
- Real time editing of information based on dynamic criteria
- Integrated endpoints, like ticket purchases, etc.

• Gets What You Say- Conversational intent:

- Location context
- Time context
- Task context
- Dialog context

• Gets To Know You- Learns and acts on personal information:

- Who are your friends
- Where do you live
- What is your age
- What do you like