Apple Special Event 2011 Siri Introduction

Siri was not Apple s first venture into voiceactivated controls and speechrecognition, although the program makes a few big leaps over the capabilities of VoiceOver, the technology used in Mac computers since OS X as well as iPhones since iPhone 3GS. Apple did not develop this technology in house. Rather, Apple acquired Siri Inc. in 2010, a company that had developed an iPhone app called Siri Personal Assistant. Sometime after Apple took over the company, the app was pulled from the App Store.