Move over, Kinect -- here comes Siri. Microsoft 
's gesture-and-voice -based game controller, which has been hacked and adapted for a wide range of radical new user interface applications, may soon have to share that spotlight with Apple's intelligent voice-recognition agent, Siri.
Only a few weeks since its launch with the iPhone 4S, Siri is being hacked and adapted by third-party developers. First in line for Siri-ization are other Apple devices. One group of developers, dubbed the iPhone Dev Team, has ported Siri to run on an iPhone 4 and a 4th-generation iPod Touch. But, to do so, they had to jailbreak the devices so that they would run unauthorized code.
Siri for Android ?
The iPhone 4/iPod Touch hack is not yet released, but the developers have posted a video attesting to their success. There is also a report that Siri has been made to run on the iPhone 3GS, although less successfully.
To operate Siri as well as on the 4S, a device must have a powerful processor, a continual data connection, and excellent microphone pickup. Siri is unique, in that it understands many kinds of natural speech, asks questions if needed to complete a task, and communicates wirelessly with Apple's data centers, which helps to decode your communication or find the requested information .
A French developer, Applidium, has announced that it has cracked the protocol by which Siri communicates with Apple. "As a result," Applidium posted on its Web site, "we are able to use Siri's recognition engine from any device." It added that "yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri!"
All of which means that these Siri adaptations, and the booming cottage industry of finding new ways to use Kinect, could drive a massive transformation across virtually all technology, with Kinect-based in-the-air gestures and facial recognition, and Siri-based intelligent voice recognition, making even touch interaction seem quaint.
The Kinect Effect
Kinect, for instance, has now moved far beyond games and into business. Microsoft has said that it will release a Kinect for business next year, including a Software Developers Kit. A SDK for academic and non-commercial projects has already been released. (continued...)
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