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A look at Apple’s Assistant interface for the new iPhone (with video)

Friday, September 30, 2011 · 4:18 pm · 26 Comments

“Apple has been rumored to be working on advanced speech recognition technology for some time,” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors. “The Siri/Nuance-based voice recognition Assistant will be the major new feature in the next generation iPhone and will be an iPhone 4S/5 exclusive feature.”

“The Assistant will allow users to speak to their iPhones in order to schedule appointments, send text messages, retrieve information and much more,” Kim reports. “Voice recognition happens on the fly and reportedly with great accuracy.”

Kim reports, “We contracted Jan-Michael Cart to put together a video representation of the Assistant workflow… Due to the short turnaround, we know that not all elements in the video represent actual look/feel of the Assistant interface, but should show off the general workflow.”

Read more in the full article here.

Categories: News

Tags: Assistant, iOS 5, iPhone 5

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26 Comments

Former co-worker of yours Sam

Friday, September 30, 2011 - 4:27 pm · Reply

Good I hope this is legit and not just a mock up. Suck it Android speech recognition. This UI looks amazing. Once again, not the first to do it but the best to implement it.
- dinjin201
  
  Friday, September 30, 2011 - 4:34 pm · Reply
  
  Macrumors did the mockup “Based on the information we got from our source”
  
  So, I do think its legit. And if you’ve used the siri app, it actually uses this conversation style interface.
  
  It had better be true. >:D
- praus
  
  Friday, September 30, 2011 - 4:39 pm · Reply
  
  Well this is of course a mock up of the UI (no one out side Apple has seen the actual UI) but the things that are being requested are not a mock up. Siri can do all these things currently so there’s no reason the new iPhone can’t do these things as well.
- WaterFalls
  
  Friday, September 30, 2011 - 8:45 pm · Reply
  
  This is a demo (mock-up) YES…
  
  “We contracted Jan-Michael Cart to put together a video representation of the Assistant workflow”.
  
  Apple will ACTUALLY have it better.
  Since the HOME button is no longer physical (mechanical),
  an UPWARD slide motion to the HOME button, places the VOICE mode in lock – hence HANDS-FREE.
  
  Again – say bye bye to your bluetooth ear piece.
  It’s no-longert needed.
  
  Thx C.E.A
Macedsince84

Friday, September 30, 2011 - 4:38 pm · Reply

This voice recognition feature may be the exact reason for the title of the iPhone event Monday, “Let’s aTALK iPhone.”
- praus
  
  Friday, September 30, 2011 - 4:40 pm · Reply
  
  OMFG…I totally didn’t catch that before. I think you are 100% right.
  - TheConfuzed1
    
    Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 4:27 pm · Reply
    
    Really?
    
    Didn’t you noice MDN’s take?
    
    “Let’s talk to iPhone!”
- JBakes
  
  Friday, September 30, 2011 - 8:54 pm · Reply
  
  Nice catch!
Ballmer's left nut

Friday, September 30, 2011 - 4:41 pm · Reply

Puts phone to face. Murmurs softly into the microphone, “iPhone get me Minka Kelly and tell her to arrive braless at the poolhouse cabana at 7.30 for dinner on Friday night. And iPhone, don’t screw it up. Seacrest out.”
- Spark
  
  Friday, September 30, 2011 - 4:48 pm · Reply
  
  I took this for generic lowbrow humor until the “Seacrest Out” part. That raised it to “Golden” status.
  - praus
    
    Friday, September 30, 2011 - 5:15 pm · Reply
    
    Yes but of course if it was Seacrest, you’d think the request would be more for, I don’t know…David Beckham, jockless.
    - Spark
      
      Friday, September 30, 2011 - 6:19 pm · Reply
      
      That’s why I thought it was funny. The absurdity of it.
Weekend

Friday, September 30, 2011 - 4:41 pm · Reply

I have used the Google speech recognition and had no problem with it. If Apple can make it better,and they will, groovy!
- praus
  
  Friday, September 30, 2011 - 5:16 pm · Reply
  
  In my experience the Google speech recognition was mostly just turning your words directly into a Google search. This actually decodes your speech and finds out how it applies to a bunch of different stuff.
Tim cook

Friday, September 30, 2011 - 5:01 pm · Reply

Oh darn you ruine the surprise.
- Steve jobs
  
  Friday, September 30, 2011 - 5:04 pm · Reply
  
  Dude!! I told you not to tell anyone!! D:<
R2

Friday, September 30, 2011 - 5:03 pm · Reply

The screen better be at least 4 inches.
- Tim Cook
  
  Friday, September 30, 2011 - 5:09 pm · Reply
  
  I assure you, it is.
  - Steve Jobs
    
    Friday, September 30, 2011 - 6:55 pm · Reply
    
    Dude!!!! D-:< Really!?!?!?
The Beav

Friday, September 30, 2011 - 5:21 pm · Reply

It’s the 1987 Knowledge Navigator come to life.
WaterFalls

Friday, September 30, 2011 - 8:39 pm · Reply

The NEW Home button is not a physical button.

By gesturing (a slide of the home button UPWARDLY)
it then goes hands-free mode…
SAY BYE BYE to the bluetooth ear sets.
smacsteve

Friday, September 30, 2011 - 10:09 pm · Reply

Looks terrible! I was hoping for something a bit more in depth. I just hope the crappy voice recognition has improved. A lot.
- Applesmack
  
  Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 12:34 am · Reply
  
  It ‘s not voice recognition, it’s speech recognition.
  If you want a preview of the functionality check out the Dragon Go app.
Incarnato

Friday, September 30, 2011 - 10:24 pm · Reply

I want more GD it. I can only watch that 30 second video so many times. I want the f’n thing NOW. What sucks is Tuesday gonna come and they’ll say ” In one month the new iPhone 5 (hopefully) will be up for pre order. I love my 4. But I need just a .5 of a bigger screen. Just a lil sum sum. And of course all the new features and hardware. Which is a given. What think the bigger screen should be to. But this 4s bs doesn’t sound like new body.
- paul
  
  Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 2:45 pm · Reply
  
  Why does everyone want a new body for? A slimmer iPhone 4 body will do me. The iPhone 4 body is truly a magical piece of art and design. For me, they can take all the iPhone 5 “guts” put it into a slimmer iPhone 4 body and they can call it 4s and I will be happy.
  - Incarnato
    
    Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 3:24 pm · Reply
    
    Ip4 is a work of art no doubt. But a little more room to work with on the ip would just top it off.