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VocalIQ acquisition hints at how Apple plans to win the intelligent assistant war

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<p>When the original developers of Siri jumped ship to develop a competing intelligent assistant <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/09/siri-creators-show-off-viv/" target="_blank">called Viv[/url], they dismissed Apple’s implementation of their intelligent assistant as just ‘<a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/10/opinion-viv-siri/" target="_blank">a clever AI chatbot[/url].’ We’ve since heard that Apple plans to offer <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/24/apple-siri-hardware-device-echo-competitor/" target="_blank">a Siri SDK[/url] that will allow it to call on the capabilities of third-party apps (something I called for <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2015/12/18/feature-request-siri-access-3rd-party-apps/" target="_blank">last year[/url]) – but it seems like the company is also seeking to go even beyond Viv’s capabilities.</p>
<p>Apple <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2015/10/02/apple-vocaliq-acquisition/" target="_blank">last year acquired[/url] British intelligent assistant developer VocalIQ – a tool specifically geared to truly conversational queries – and a source who spoke to <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-apples-vocaliq-ai-works-2016-5" target="_blank">Business Insider[/url] gave some insight into just how intelligent Siri could become when infused with this tech …</p>
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