When the guys at Apple introduced Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant inside the iPhone, it became the rage of the Smartphone world. Soon after, in India, specifically Bangalore, a group of 6 young techies who had set up a company called Dexetra Software Solutions Pvt Ltd decided just for the heck of it to develop Siri's answer on the Android platform. They claim to have done so in "48 hours", & named it in the reverse of Siri - Iris.
Iris is powered by Knowledge Search Engine ChaCha. Using it, users can call, seek their horoscope, text & get the news, among other things. Users need to hold their mobile phone's Search key & start talking to Iris. You need to have "Voice Search" and "TTS library" installed in your phone for Iris. Most of the phones have these pre-installed. If not, users need to install them from the Android market 1st. Iris has already been downloaded 1 million times in the last 2 months. & yes, Iris is a woman, just in case you were wondering.....a Free to use App.
You may click here to download Iris on your Android device
When the guys at Apple introduced Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant inside the iPhone, it became the rage of the Smartphone world. Soon after, in India, specifically Bangalore, a group of 6 young techies who had set up a company called Dexetra Software Solutions Pvt Ltd decided just for the heck of it to develop Siri's answer on the Android platform. They claim to have done so in "48 hours", & named it in the reverse of Siri - Iris. 
