Googling is a tweak launched last night in Cydia, and it has an interesting functionality that combines two of the best voice assistants for iDevices. The tweak allows us to replace the voice command recognition system from Crab with that of Google Search, but let's keep the interface Crab and its functionality. Practically using this tweak, when you activate Crab everything you say will be recognized by the system Google Now from Google Search, but the commands will run through the Siri infrastructure.
Googiri – Use Google's awesome speech-to-text results with Siri. Speak your query in the Google Search app, and if you prepend your query with a few keywords, Siri will take over handling the query. For example, you could ask Google for the weather with "What's the weather", but if you want Siri's results instead, say "hey, Siri, what's the weather". This works for system functions, of course. Telling Google, "remind me to take out the trash in an hour" will open Siri with your already filled in reminder card. You can optionally set Siri as the default results engine by toggling "Send All to Siri" in the settings panel. This will send all queries from Google's Search app to Siri, unless you say "Google" (or a similar phrase) before your query. Finally, if you prepend your query with one of the system commands, Siri will automatically take over, regardless of the setting above.
The idea behind it Googling is very interesting, especially since it could give users the possibility to control Siri in languages that the assistant does not recognize. Although I have not tried to run voice commands in Romanian using this tweak, theoretically this should be possible if in the Google Search application you have set the Romanian language for voice searches using Google Now, and in this article I explained how you can do this. Googiri is available for free in the repo BigBoss al Cydia.
