"Siri, how expensive would it be to replace all the lights in my house with fireflies?" (cf. "Is that rain?")
posted by griphus on May 23, 2012 - 56 comments

G-Male And Siri: A Love Story
posted by The Whelk on Apr 15, 2012 - 15 comments

If people thought Apple's voice assistant Siri was conservative, then Iris, a similar feature for Android (which uses the search engine ChaCha), will blow their mind.
posted by Brandon Blatcher on Feb 9, 2012 - 84 comments

Siri meets Furby. (SLYT)
posted by sweetkid on Nov 5, 2011 - 25 comments

Why are computer voices mostly female? Apple's 1987 vision of a computerized personal assistant was originally male. Siri's voice is female in the US and Australia, but male in the UK and France. [more inside]
posted by flex on Oct 21, 2011 - 81 comments

Another mind numbing tumblr blog- shit siri says. Apparently Apple Purposely Gave Siri Some Attitude. Here is a cnet demo of siri on youtube.
posted by TheBones on Oct 15, 2011 - 77 comments

Apple - Introducing GLaDOSiri on iPhone 4S (SLYT)
posted by Vibrissa on Oct 12, 2011 - 63 comments

In 1987 Apple predicted a complex language voice assistant built into something called the Apple Knowledge Navigator, a tablet computer. With today's announcement of the refined (and integrated) version of Siri, it appears they were less than a month off.
posted by mrzarquon on Oct 4, 2011 - 405 comments