Apple Buys Tech That Could Help Them To Make Siri Offline
Apple
has sort-of-confirmed that it recently snapped up another small company, called
Novauris. The firm specializes in speech recognition and has historical ties to
the core technology and patents underpinning Siri. TechCrunch reports that
Novauris's experts are already working inside Apple to improve its voice
assistant, but no one really knows exactly what they're up to. One of
Novauris's big strengths has been locally-processed recognition, which doesn't
rely on distant servers, so it's possible that Apple wants Siri to accomplish
more without a data connection.
Apple's
current Siri partner, Nuance, can also do offline processing, but Apple hasn't
been able to bring that technology in-house. We're just speculating, of course,
but this is a function that no voice assistant has really mastered so far
(although others are definitely working on it), and it's even more important
now that iOS is getting into the car.

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