Nick Cassimatis is a professor of cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has a PhD in artificial intelligence from MIT, and thinks that Apple, Google and other big companies are wrongly looking at how systems like Siri should work. He says that Siri is trying to learn the Library of Congress, and the application developed by him learns the dictionary to read the Library of Congress, and by this the teacher tells us that the application should use other parameters to perform smart searches. The named application SkyPhrase can perform searches on Gmail, Twitter or Orbitz, and phrases such as: emails that Jane sent me during the holidays containing pictures, tweets about Mars from NASA during the last two days ori flights from New York to Orlando leaving next week and returning in November, provides the results that people really need.
SkyPhrase lets you search and listen to your email using speech. Your inbox and your old email contain important information (eg, flight information, pictures, addresses and phone numbers) that is difficult to access on your phone. With SkyPhrase, use voice or text to find the email you are looking for (eg, "email from jim last week that says southwest itinerary") and get just that email. No more vague keywords or cumbersome web forms. Use Auto Speak mode to have your messages, inbox and search results automatically read to you by a male or female, UK or US voice.
The idea behind SkyPhrase is to provide users with the exact answers for natural searches, those based on expressions used in everyday life. Siri or Google Search need exact commands to provide the information we need, but SkyPhrase can provide the same information even if we ask the application a question that we would normally ask a friend or a travel agent. Whether this application will become popular or not remains to be seen, but the idea of performing complex searches based on spoken commands using "natural", common phrases, is what Apple must have in mind.
SkyPhrase for now is only available in the US.
