Who is Siri? Apple's voice robot explained in detail

By now it's common knowledge that Siri is Apple's voice robot. Nevertheless, many smartphone users are still wondering: what exactly is Siri? What can the voice recognition do and how useful is it really?

Siri is the name of the voice that speaks to you from every iPhone and iPad when you have voice recognition turned on. She is part of all sorts of fun websites on the Internet. In fact, she often gives you very amusing answers to your questions. This is due to the programming of the speech computer: Its answers have been fed in advance by computer scientists. On its own, Siri does not yet answer.

What does Siri do on your iPhone?

Siri is the official name of the voice assistant that is built into all modern Apple devices. You can ask her questions, which she then answers in the best possible way. Possible questions would be, for example, what the weather is like or what is the best way to get to your destination when you are on the road.

• Siri thus helps you deal with various everyday problems. It is very easy to start: to communicate with Siri, you only have to say "Hey Siri".
• Under "Settings > Siri and Search" you can activate, deactivate and make further adjustments to Siri.
• But Apple's voice computer also takes commands from you. So you can say, for example, "Siri, call contact xy". Das erspart Ihnen vor allem unterwegs viel Zeit und Stress, wenn Sie eine Nummer nicht erst aus dem Telefonbuch heraussuchen oder ins Tastenfeld eintippen müssen.