Dear Apple: Go Big with Siri and Nuance in iOS 5   (Page 2 of 2)
Nuance does it extremely well (so well the company has a market
cap of more than $6 billion today). It would then present those
sounds as transcriptions. But it ends there. It does not
understand those transcriptions.  Siri is far better at
understanding. It’s a gifted natural language AI technology that
knows the myriad of ways people express intent. Siri knows that
by “book” you don’t mean a paperback novel but the action to
“reserve” a table. It adds a deep layer of intelligence on top
of Nuance and helps turn your spoken intent into action. It can
go right to OpenTable and reserve a table for you. With one
verbal command, you can skip the thumb typing and avoid the
three Web screens to complete your task.  What’s Apple-esque  It
would be quintessential Apple to rewrite the rules and surprise
the world—like they did with the iPad. Apple owns nearly 90
percent of the tablet market today because they dictated what a
tablet should be—with its i