Majel Barrett

If there’s one thing tempting us to convert to the iPhone 4S , it would be Siri —the featured voice-activated personal assistant on the device. Well, almost. Before we could even wipe away the saliva from our faces (yes, we do admit it’s a really cool feature we’re jealous of), we received word that Android will be having its very own rival to Siri. This time, our own assistant has been called Majel, relating to Majel Barrett-Roddenberry who, for many die hard Star Trek fans remember as the...Read Full Story

Ethan Miller / Getty Images Actress Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, speaks during a fifth annual central Star Trek gathering during a Las Vegas Hilton Aug. 20, 2006. It’s not accurately a final frontier, though a hum around Siri has seemed to give Android’s makers adequate of a flog to come out with their possess chronicle of a smartphone voice-activated personal assistant, codenamed after a princely Star Trek legend, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry...Read Full Story

Apple pushed the iPhone 4S to the world, that was more than an iPhone, which brought several features with new way of intracting with technology. That’s the way was first real way of talking to a piece of software using natural language. With the help of Nuance we heard voice commands before, but Siri comes out, the software was listening for every specific words and a very specific syntax. News comes out that the Android team is to build a Siri competitor which was codenamed Majal...Read Full Story

see photos Forbes Images Click for full print gallery: The Google Search Evolution Google skeleton to launch a voice partner for Android to opposition Apple’s Siri, integrating voice approval with a determined hunt capabilities. The Mountain View, Calif.-based association is rumored to be operative on a voice partner program during a “secret” laboratory, Google[/entity] X, according to a site Android and Me, and might launch a use within a subsequent few weeks. Codenamed “Majel...Read Full Story

We've said it before: something as complex and integrated as an Android version of Apple's Siri will need to come from Google, not some third party. As you'd expect, whether as a direct response to Siri or something Google had been working on already, it's coming, and could be here as soon as the end of the year. Considering that the end of the year is only about two weeks away, that may not happen, but what is happening, according to Android and Me , is that the project is live, and being...Read Full Story