Meet your smart assistant Siri from Apple
Siri was created in December 2007 by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Tom Gruber. Siri is considered a product of the SRI International Center for Artificial Intelligence. It has been labeled the largest artificial intelligence project yet.
Siri is a comprehensive smart assistant, which has the ability to carry out different tasks depending on the user's needs.
Get information about what the user asks for in applications. If nothing is found, it will search for it on the internet.
Siri finds you information related to the weather, restaurants closer to your position, movies that are in fashion at the cinema, manage your social networks, open an app, make reminders, send messages and emails, organize appointments, set alarms, create routes of maps, give you information about the stock market.
Siri is not just a smart assistant, it can be your friend and collaborator that can simplify your life.
How Siri works
The internal mechanisms of Siri cannot be exactly discussed, due to their complexity. When the user issues an order, it is recorded, compressed and sent to Apple's data center with Nuance (speech-to-text processor) and Siri AI as the natural language processing engine. In this way Siri notices what has been said.
Now Siri creates a voice response and sends it back to the device, you can query and send the voice response file and phone information.
Siri also vocalizes the answers to the questions and displays the information obtained through Siri's backend services, such as Google results for example, or also through the maps' app.
Siri is the ideal butler for your home
Thanks to the Home app, you can easily keep your Homekit accessories under control using Apple devices. You can turn off the lights, see who is ringing the bell, make adjustments to the room temperature, turn up the music volume, among other things.
In short, the user is the boss. And thanks to the new protected video and Homekit routers now everything has much more security. Due to this Home app, the connected systems of your home can make your life more comfortable and simple.
The Home app can help you configure and have control of the accessories that have compatibility from the same place. There are even more than 100 manufacturers on the planet that are making accessories that can work with Homekit, and they continue to increase.
The Apple company is responsible for reviewing and approving each one of them so that they can function safely in the hands of users.
The accessories available are the following: Air conditioners, speakers, sprinklers, cameras, locks, sockets, taps, humidifiers, switches, bridges, lights, garage doors, air purifiers, receivers, routers, security, sensors, televisions, thermostats, doorbells, windows and fans.
Because the Home app has the ability to group accessories by room, it is much easier to control the systems in each space with just a touch or click.
The user can say things to Siri like these: "Turn off the lights in the room", "Turn on the heating in the upper floor". You can even perform more complex actions such as dimming the lights, regulating the thermostat with just the touch of an icon.
If you have a TV that is compatible with Airplay 2, you can add it to the Home app to control it like any other accessory. You can turn it off, on, adjust the volume or change the input.
Siri controls images from cameras
As is known, the images contained in the security cameras of a house can contain confidential and very personal data. Thanks to Homekit's protected video, compatible camera recordings are privately analyzed in the home accessories' hub, in order to know if people, animals or cars appear.
In the event that any important activity is detected, the people with whom you share the Home app, and you will receive notifications so that they can view the images from the lock screen.
The recordings will be available in the Home app for ten days, they will be stored for free and safely in the accounts that are compatible with iCloud and do not influence your storage limits.
Top camera brands like Eufy, Logitech, and Netatmo have already announced that they support Homekit's protected video.
Homekit routers
In general, home automation accessories connected to the internet are at risk of being attacked.
Due to this, routers that are compatible with Homekit serve as an internal barrier to protect your smart home, since they activate a firewall for each of the accessories.
In this way, if there is a security problem, you will not be able to access other devices or your personal data.
You can use the Home app to have control of the services that can communicate with Homekit both on your network and on the internet.
Top brands like Eero, Linksys and Charter spectrum have already announced that they can provide compatibility with Homekit routers.
Voice control
Thanks to the Home app you can create environments in which you can combine accessories that can work simultaneously when you give the order.
To cite an example, you can activate the "I'm leaving home" environment so that the lights turn off, the thermostat is lowered, and the door is closed.
You can activate the "Movie Night" setting to turn on your Airplay 2 compatible television, lower the blinds and turn on the lights.
The great thing about Siri is that it knows which Homekit-compatible accessories are in your home and if they are working. You can ask him to turn on or off a device, to play another song, to activate an environment that you have previously configured, to play movies or your favorite music that has Airplay 2 compatibility from the iPhone or iPad.
If you have the Apple TV or the HomePod, you don't even need to be nearby. You can be driving and say to set the "I'm coming home" environment so that this way when you arrive and enter the house, the heating and lights are already on.
The user can have control of their home no matter where they are. With the Home app you can remotely access any home automation accessory that is in the home through Apple TV, HomePod or iPad.
If you are in the house, you can do the same too, you can close the garage door, see who is calling on the video intercom or ask Siri to lower the temperature of the thermostat.
Users can put their home on autopilot, they can use Apple TV, HomePod and iPad to automate certain tasks, such as activating accessories or environments according to a certain time of day, your exact location or what the devices can detect sensors. You only have to configure it once and the rest will run automatically.
These are some of the tasks that you can automate:
Program the lights so that they can come on when you enter your home.
Let the heating turn on at 6:00 am, so getting out of bed is not too heavy.
Put a motion sensor in the kitchen, so the lights can turn on immediately the moment you walk into it.
The activation of environments according to who is in the house, for example, that the lights can be turned off automatically when you leave the house.
The configuration is quite simple, you just have to configure the Homekit accessory to control it with the Home app.
Activate or scan the Homekit code found on the accessory or in the instructions, so it can instantly pair with your iOS or iPadOS devices.
In addition, the Home app is capable of recognizing the homekit accessories that you configured with other apps.
Siri is a mobile encyclopedia
Siri is capable of answering all kinds of questions you want to ask. You can compare data, perform calculations, and learn new things. Take the test and ask what you want, you will see how Siri can surprise you.
Even if you didn't ask for anything, Siri is such a good assistant that it will continue to keep an eye on you. Here are some of the things you can ask Siri :
How do I say Hello in Mandarin?
How many are $45 in euros?
What are the reviews of a certain movie?
Multiply 55 x 80
It gives you information about the stock market.
You show the results of sports.
Siri uses speech synthesis technology to help you express yourself naturally, which is very useful when speaking long sentences.
Siri can make reservations and search / send files faster than you, look for photos of your relatives, tell you where you parked, call you for a taxi, and the best part is that it can use any device to help you no matter where you are.
The shortcut app
Siri has a shortcut app that integrates with iOS and iPadOS. It contains a set of functions, so you can choose the one you like.
You just have to say "Go home" and immediately you receive a message with the arrival time, it presents you the fastest route and even gives you a list of songs for the road.
If you prefer, you can also create your own shortcuts, in such a way that you speed up the tasks you do most frequently.
Siri is designed to learn
Siri learns from you every day that passes, and it will not stop, since it has machine learning that you can customize yourself. You can configure it in up to 21 languages that it has available.
You can tell Siri the names of your family members and spell them out for them, so they can more easily recognize you next time.
Apart from learning, you can also do it without being connected to the internet directly to your device. Searches and requests are not related to users.
The company does not store your personal data and then sell it to other companies. It has end-to-end encryption so that no one accesses your personal information, nor can Apple.