The only reason the iPhone 4s is selling is the fact that it has Apple’s new feature “Siri” built in. Siri is a really cool feature but its not unique, there are other alternatives out there. A few developers from Dexetra.com created a Siri alternative for Android called Iris within only a few hours.
This new app like Siri will work by asking a question, then the app will look over the internet and find the answer and respond. It was said to just be something to pass the time and have a little fun but now seems to be a worthwhile development.
One of the Developers on the project Narayan Babu says:
When we started seeing results, everyone got excited and started a high speed coding race. In no time, we added Voice input, Text-to-speech, also a lot of hueristic humor into Iris. Not until late evening we decided on the name “iris.”, which would be Siri in reverse. And we also reverse engineered a crazy expansion – Intelligent Rival Imitator of Siri. We were still in the fun mode, but when we started using it the results were actually good, really good.
The app has been named Iris and will be available on the Android Market shortly although if you would like to try it out now in its beta stages it is available. Of course those of us that are die hard Android fans knew it would only be a matter of time before Android had its version of iPhone’s Siri.