Go ahead, Siri. There is a new AI in the city that is threatening to handle your area. Its name is very much.
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Latest version of Perplexity iPhone App Introduction A New voice assistant Designed to perform various types of tasks. Many of these functions are usually reserved for Siri, as they are not only interactive, but can also get important information on your phone.
What can you ask
Like Siri, you can ask the Voice Assistant of Perplexity to set a reminder, schedule a calendar event, play a song of Apple Music, open a podcast, and get the direction through the Apple Maps. Just ask it to do any of these tasks, and the perplexity will interact with the appropriate app or feature and display the results.
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For example, ask the Assistant of Perplexity about your appointments for next week. AI will scan your calendar and both will speak and display your upcoming appointments. Ask it to set a reminder to take your cat to the vet at 11 am tomorrow, and it would add that task to the Apple’s reminder app. Boston will ask for directions for the Fenuil Hall in Massachusetts, and a map of the AI route as well as a link to open it in Apple maps with turn-by-turn directions.
Voice Assistant can handle other tasks, such as composing emails, sending calendar invitation, and booking a ride with Uber. The first time you ask it to do a system-level task, AI will request specific data, such as your calendar, reminder or permission to reach the contacts. After that, the process is usually quick and comfortable.
Siri disappointed
The new skill of Perplexity is an attempt to take some of Siri’s abilities by AI. Typically, most AIs do not have this level of access to your iPhone, which is why you can not ask your library to run music, add a reminder, or to reach your iPhone calendar, google Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot.
This new ability also comes at a time when Apple users are disappointed with Siri. Many times, Apple’s voice assistant fails to understand the simple requests, what you say wrong, or just leave instead of helping. Apple is promising to increase and improve Siri, but those efforts are repeatedly delayed.
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Even with the new power of perplexity, there are still many tasks that can only complete the Siri. For example, when I asked Perplexity to send a text message to someone in my contacts, he replied that it could not send the book directly. However, Perplexity’s Voice Assistant is an impressive first attempt on strict integration with your data.
How to try new voice assistant
To try new voice assistant, download and install Perplexity iOS App If you don’t already have. Otherwise, make sure that you are running the latest version. Open the app and sign in with your email address or your Apple or Google account. “Ask anything” on the prompt, tap on the audio icon on the right. Then you can speak your request.
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To make the app tweet, tap on the settings icon at the top. Here, you can turn on or off the subtitle between two different modes to talk to AI. You can also choose from six different voices.
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