AssistantEnhancer is a tweak launched last night in Cydia, and with its help you can implement in iOS, for Crab, a whole suite of functions that the assistant from Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he doesn't have them and probably won't have them soon. AssistantEnhancer allows you to control applications Spotify or Grooveshark to search for music through them, to make playlists, to play your favorite songs, or to search the Internet for the lyrics of your favorite songs, or of those that are playing in one of the two applications.
Compatible with iOS 5 and 6. Requires Siri capability. AssistantEnhancer picks up where Apple left off with Siri by addressing some of their glaring oversights and adding a slew of new features. Not everyone uses the default music app which Siri is limited to controlling. AssistantEnhancer integrates Spotify, Grooveshark, and even Pandora with Siri to allow access to a nearly endless supply of music. Tell Siri to play your favorite Spotify playlist, create a station for your artist of choice on Pandora, play one of the millions of songs Grooveshark and Spotify have access to, or dozens of other commands. In addition, you can conveniently search for a song's lyrics or get the lyrics to the song you're listening to.
Leaving the music aside, the tweak implements in iOS the possibility of searching for information about the events taking place near you, and of purchasing tickets for them, if you are in a civilized country. The tweak also implements the option to search for information on Amazon, Google Images, eBay or even App Store, everything being much more useful than simple searches made through Wolfram Alpha. Finally, the developer of the tweak has also implemented a function that allows us to use Siri to mark on the map the location where we parked our car and to be directed to it, we have the option to open web pages by simply saying the domain them, we have the option to call the emergency numbers, and at the end we can find out information about the battery status, the available storage space or even the amount of free RAM memory.
One feature that Google Now has that Siri doesn't is the ability to search for local events. That is no longer the case with AssistantEnhancer. Tell Siri to "Find concerts happening next weekend" and you'll be presented with a list of concerts and a convenient way to buy tickets. But it doesn't stop with concerts; you can search for any event, from hiking groups to book readings. Siri is a powerful tool to acquire information, but lacks some obvious abilities. AssistantEnhancer adds several new ways to search, including Amazon, Ebay, Google Images, Urban Dictionary, and even the App Store. Tell Siri to "Search iPhone on Amazon" and you are instantly brought to a page of results, ask her to search "YOLO" on urban dictionary and you will be given a definition, say "Show me a picture of a chipmunk" and instantly get a picture from Google Images, or tell her to search Angry Birds on the app store and be given a list of apps and a convenient way to download them.
AssistantEnhancer is available at the price of $1.99 in Cydia's BigBoss repo, but many of the new functions may not be available in Romania. If you decide to use the tweak, then on this page you have listed all the commands you can say.
Siri should fit into your life as a utility but many of its small annoyances inhibit that from happening. With AssistantEnhancer you can now tell Siri to remember where you parked and then retrieve directions when you need to get back to your car, navigate to popular websites by name eg. "Go to 9to5mac", be brought to webpages directly instead of wasting time searching them first like Siri wants to, get today's XKCD comic, and even bypass Apple's ban on calling 911 and other emergency numbers. In addition, you can ask Siri about your device and get information about your battery, storage space, and even free your device's memory.
