{"id":164418,"date":"2016-05-10T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T06:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=164418"},"modified":"2016-05-10T08:06:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T06:06:36","slug":"siris-creators-launch-new-personal-assistant-viv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/164418-siris-creators-launch-new-personal-assistant-viv.html","title":{"rendered":"Siri&#8217;s creators launch new personal assistant: Viv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team that brought the world Siri &#8211; the personal assistant found on iOS devices &#8211; has revealed its new virtual assistant: Viv.<\/p>\n<p>Viv was shown off at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt event, reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/05\/09\/viv-from-siris-creators-is-the-virtual-assistant-of-your-drea\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>, with the aim of showing users the next level of intuitive software.<\/p>\n<p>Viv doesn&#8217;t have a virtual voice like Siri, but one is planned for the near future.<\/p>\n<p>The virtual assistant relies on\u00a0Nuance&#8217;s technology for speech recognition &#8211; the same as Siri &#8211; but uses\u00a0a combination of natural language technology and &#8220;dynamic program generation&#8221;, which Viv&#8217;s creators said allows the assistant to &#8220;create its own programming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0TechCrunch presentation is posted below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rblb3sptgpQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on software<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/164286-windows-live-mail-2012-support-to-end.html\">Windows Live Mail 2012 support to end<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/164102-windows-10-free-upgrade-to-end-soon.html\">Windows 10 free upgrade to end soon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team that brought the world Siri &#8211; the personal assistant found on iOS devices &#8211; has revealed its new virtual assistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":142204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,2916,37102],"class_list":["post-164418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-siri","tag-viv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164420,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164418\/revisions\/164420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}