iPhone: Siri0us App Brings Siri-Like Speech Recognition to iPhone 4, 3GS & iPod Touch [Siri0us Lets iPhone 4, 3GS & iPod Touch 4G Users Speak to Their iOS Devices Using Nuance Speech-Recognition Technology; Jailbreak Required]

Posted on TFTS by J. Angelo Racoma on Sunday, 27. November 2011 under: Internet Highlights, Mobile/Cell Phones

Smartphone hackers and developers have been looking for a way to port Apple’s Siri speech recognition technology to older iPhones and the iPad. A recently-launched Cydia app gets Siri-like dictation on the iPhone 4 and 3GS, but is not quite the app that Siri lovers might be looking for.

We have been reporting about possible hacks, tweaks and cracks that developers have been doing in an attempt to implement Siri speech-recognition technology on older iPhones. As Apple requires a unique iPhone 4S identifier in its transmission packets, using Apple’s own Siri servers might be difficult. And so developer Eric Day has released an app via Cydia that mirrors Siri’s functionality, but doesn’t exactly use the Siri speec recognition engine.

Dubbed Siri0us, the app is described as “Siri dictation for your iOS devices. No iPhone 4S keys/files required.” Recognition works seamlessly on the iPhone 4, according to iDownloadBlog. Siri0us is actually powered by Nuance speech-recognition technology, although the end result is said to be similar to Siri. The app requires an iOS device to be jailbroken, and users will need to add the http://apt.if0rce.com resource to the Cydia sources list to be able to find and install the Siri0us app.

Siri0us is designed to work on the iPhone 4, although the app can likewise run on the iPhone 3GS, 4th-generation iPod Touch. Users might be disappointed by the lack of artificial-intelligence or personal-assistant features, though, since Siri0us is meant for dictation only.

A big question is whether Apple does plan to officially implement Siri on older iOS devices, including the iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad and iPad 2. No word on that yet. Rumor has it that Apple is internally testing Siri on older iDevices, although with Siri being a big marketing feature for the iPhone 4S, that’s unlikely to happen, at least in the near future.

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