Honda has baked both Apple and Nokia technology into its latest infotainment system, bringing Siri Eyes Free and HERE Maps with remote route planning support to the 2014 Civic. The new car – and the 2015 Honda Fit which will follow it – gets an updated version of HondaLink, with a 7-inch multitouch-capable display in […]
The 2013-2014 Honda Accord and 2013 Acura RDX and ILX are getting the Siri treatment, Honda has announced. Starting now, new and existing customers can visit a Honda dealer for a software upgrade to their on-board HondaLink and AcuraLink systems to integrate Apple’s Siri Eyes Free mode. The announcement was made this afternoon on Honda’s […]
We first got word that Siri Eyes Free was coming to the 2013 Honda Accord back in January, but now the auto maker is rolling out the feature to vehicles. Owners of either the aforementioned model, 2014 Accord and both the 2013 Acura RDX and ILX can get the dealer-installed accessory by visiting their local dealer. Through a software update, Apple’s hands-free feature works in tandem with HondaLink and AcuraLink to complete tasks with the vehicles’ built-in microphone and speaker set. There’s still no word on exactly how much the upgrade will cost, but Honda has scheduled a Hangout for December 3rd to make a proper announcement, so perhaps we’ll learn the sticker price then.
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The folks at Honda have made it known that they’ll be first off the blocks in the 2014 Civic with full iOS mirroring for iOS 7. This push will begin on the 4th of December, and will include full touch-friendly integration with the vehicle’s 7-inch touchscreen on its center console. The features here will be […]
Luc Julia was director of Apple’s Siri project. This was a role he held for roughly 10 months, however he left Apple last year. Julia ended up going over to Samsung. Officially, Julia is a vice president at Samsung’s innovation lab and while the natural thought would be that he is working on improvements to […]
Apple’s virtual private assistant, Siri, which was first introduced with the iPhone 4S recently got dissed on one of the oldest running shows on television, The Simpsons. Its not like Siri hasn’t received its fair share of criticism in the past on a variety of mediums, but to make it on The Simpsons, that’s really something else isn’t it? Sunday night’s episode saw a store owner trying to help out Homer Simpson by asking Siri for local hospitals, but the virtual assistant gets an entirely different idea.
Basically Homer is trying to get some shopping done at a bowling ball store called Alley McBalls, but when he reaches the store, he finds out that it has been closed. Why? Because an Apple Store is going to be opened in that exact same location. Frustrated and acting in his signature way, without thinking that is, Homer throws his bowling ball at the store. The bowling ball bounces back and hits him square in the head. A store owners sees Homer and tries to help him out by asking Siri to tell him about local hospitals, instead Siri says that it doesn’t see any “hos petals,” and that its deleting all of the contacts. The store owner frantically says that it didn’t ask Siri to do that, to which the virtual assistant calmly replies, “delete confirmed.” A short but rather humorous swing taken at Siri, certainly seems more humorous once you take a look at its video posted above.
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Everybody knows that Siri still sucks—voice recognition is one of those technologies that has to work flawlessly 100-percent of the time for it not to suck. Like in Star Trek or 2001: A Space Odyssey. Siri doesn’t, which is why The Simpsons slammed it this Sunday in an episode full of Apple references. Watch.
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Back in 2012, Siri joined Chevrolet’s MyLink infotainment system on a handful of models, including the 2013 Chevrolet Spark. Today, the auto maker announced that Siri Eyes Free Integration will also be available on several 2014 models, including the 2014 Malibu, Cruze, Equinox, SS, Volt, and Camaro. For the vehicles equipped with MyLink, the Siri […]
I’m at my parents’ house for the weekend. Loosely translated, I’m doing some minor tech support for the next few days. My mother just implored: Siri now hates me. Can you help me? Sure, mom.
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Apple introduced its voice activated assistant software called Siri with the iPhone 4S back in 2011. Siri has been offered in each iteration of the iPhone since then and is widely used by number of iPhone fans. Previously, Apple attempted to silence voice actor Jon Briggs, whose voice is the default Siri voice in the […]
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