Download Iris Voice Assistant for Android – Alternative to Siri

iris-logoWhat is your phone for you? An assistant or just a tool? Using the speech recognition service for mobile phone, you can make your mobile device as your assistant. We have already seen many voice recognition services /voice assistants like Vlingo, Siri, SpeaktoitAssistant, etc. One more app to add to the list of voice assistants.

Soon after the release of Siri in iPhone 4S, a team of folks from Dexetra.com built ‘Iris‘ – a Siri-alike app for android in just 8 hours during a hackathon. Iris android app allows you to search on various subjects including art, literature, history, and biology to general conversation.

You can ask it “What is a fish?” and it will reply with a paragraph from Wikipedia focusing on our finned friends. You can ask iris anything. She will talk to you on any topic.

It uses Android’s speech-to-text functions to understand basic questions.

Download Iris for Android

You need to have “Voice Search” and “TTS library” installed in your phone for iris. to work. Most of the phones have these pre-installed, if not please install them from Android market before you try iris.

Features

  • Call someone with Voice Actions
  • Text someone with Voice Actions
  • [advt]Search something (on the web) with Voice Actions
  • Lookup for a contact
  • Ice cream Sandwich Inspired UI
  • New Design and new logo

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