Google is working on an equivalent of Siri: Majel

[thewayne]

Heh. Yes, named after Majel Barret Roddenberry, the voice of Star Trek's computers. It'll be interesting to see how it shapes up, Google has such a huge data mine to work with it should be quite viable. I use Siri occasionally, mainly as a lark. Last night I was playing with it as a joke and I said "play one song", and got Pink Floyd's One Slip, and that was it. I have used it while driving to play a podcast, and it's definitely useful that way. One thing didn't work as expected: Apple advertised that you could say 'remind me to buy milk when I leave work', I tried it to remind me to pick up some paper for my laser printer when I left Applebee's and I didn't get a reminder, but since I remembered that I needed to hit Staples it was no big deal.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/20/177218/google-working-on-siri-competitor-majel