On: Siri bought by Apple

[cwilson]

Looks like Apple wants to improve voice control on the iPhone!

[paulgb → cwilson]

Siri seems to be using Nuance (http://www.nuance.com/) for speech recognition, so Apple doesn't seem to have bought any of the actual speech recognition technology.

[edster → paulgb]

Siri uses Nuance, but loads it with it's own vocabulary. But you are correct, Apple would not acquire Siri for this reason.

I think the real reason is the ip in this area and the natural language processing built into the server.

[cwilson → paulgb]

I don't specifically mean speech recognition (although that could use an improvement), but some of the other features Siri would bring to that specific part of the iPhone.

Good point though.