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Apple: Siri Is All Grown Up
We're less than three weeks away from the second birthday of Siri: October 4, the day Apple's intelligent voice-activated assistant was unveiled alongside the iPhone 4S
But Apple has already declared Siri a fully grown piece of software by quietly removing the "beta" designation from the bottom of the Siri page on its website.
See also: See How Siri Works in iOS 7
The change, first spotted by 9to5Mac, comes as Siri gets a major upgrade in iOS 7, which goes into wide release on Wednesday
The iOS 7 version of the voice assistant comes with a lot more integration. Wikipedia is baked in, and Siri will display tweets from any Twitter account you care to mention. You can also customize his or her voice much more, including gender. In iOS 6, American English users got a female voice while British English users heard a male voice Read more...
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