Just watched the German dude's video about VIKI. Is it just me or is it completely wrong headed, against common sense and actually plain stupid to force a user to hold down a button (SIRI) or go fishing for a side button (VIKI) to enable voice commands? Doesnt that defeat the whole purpose of 'hands free' command??? I certainly hope the final version of BB10 doesnt force you to do that. How hard would it be to come up with an easy gesture or better yet a voice command "VIKI On" to wake up the feature?
I got my corporate Iphone 4S last week and was really looking forward to use SIRI. To say SIRI comes up with weird and wonderful results would be an understatement. To be fair, I live in my car. Travel for work extensively. Have a database of over 4,000 contacts going. Always on the phone, texting, emailing etc... So if you're gonna call it a 'personal assitant', I expect no less. So between road noise and the amount of data it has parse through, SIRI has been next to useless so far. I'm actually starting to call it names out of frustration and the results are getting funnier.
I certainly hope VIKI outdoes SIRI.