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Apple Building its Own Speech Recognition Team to Power Siri

(http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2014/03/siri_ios_7_icon.jpg) Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal claimed (http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/16/samsung-nuance-siri/) that Nuance, which is responsible for the technology behind Apple's virtual assistant Siri, was in talks with Samsung Electronics about a possible acquisition. Now, a new report (http://www.wired.com/2014/06/siri_ai/) from Wired states that Apple is forming its own in-house speech recognition team to power the next-generation of Siri.

“Apple is not hiring only in the managerial level, but hiring also people on the team-leading level and the researcher level,” says Abdel-rahman Mohamed, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, who was courted by Apple. “They’re building a very strong team for speech recognition research.”

Throughout the past few years, Apple has hired a number of high-level speech researchers in Nuance, including former vice president of research Larry Gillick (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/larry-gillick/5a/927/45a). A number of those researchers are working at Apple's office in Boston, which was also rumored (http://www.macrumors.com/2013/07/26/apples-boston-team-working-on-siri-enhancements/) last year to be working on an in-house Siri solution that moves away from Nuance's technologies.
 
 While the forthcoming version of Siri in iOS 8 (http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ios-8/) still features the same technology provided by Nuance, it is possible that Apple could debut its own in-house voice recognition solution in a future version of iOS. Siri in iOS 8 will feature a number enhancements, including hands-free "Hey Siri" voice activation, music recognition by way of Shazam (http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/16/apple-shazam-song-identification/), streaming voice recognition, and more. Apple will launch iOS 8 this fall.
 
 
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Source: Apple Building its Own Speech Recognition Team to Power Siri (http://www.macrumors.com/2014/07/01/apple-building-speech-recognition-team-siri/)