You can probably thank Siri for this. Speech recognition isn’t exactly a new technology, but the “digital voice assistant” in the iPhone 4S has certainly encouraged us to start looking for things using our voices rather than typing with our fingers. Not to be outdone, Google has more than its fair share of voice-based...

I love my Android phone, but I can’t help but to be a little envious of my iFriends from time to time. While it wouldn’t be totally accurate that I wanted to have Siri on my phone, too, I thought it would be nice to have a true “voice assistant” on my smartphone. There are other so-called Siri clones out there...