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do Siri, OK Google or Cortana offer any API's for 3rd party apps? So that I could do things like get X app to do Y with voice commands? Either when I've got th

by dharma1 11y ago

do Siri, OK Google or Cortana offer any API's for 3rd party apps? So that I could do things like get X app to do Y with voice commands? Either when I've got the app open/focused, or even when the app isn't running?

arihant 11y ago
I think both Siri and Google Now offer third-party hooks, even on the watches. I'm not sure about Cortana.
- MBCook 11y ago
  Siri does not, at least at the moment. It's widely hoped that it will, but today no.
  - mikeash 11y ago
    A notable exception to this is HomeKit devices. While it's not close to what you'd want for a general third-party API, it does let you integrate some things. I've messed around a bit with using a server to fake being a HomeKit device to get some custom things working with Siri.
silverlake 11y ago
Cortana does: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/cortana https://dev.windows.com/en-us/cortana
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Grazester 11y ago
Of course Google now has an api that can be used for issuing voice commands for third party apps
- dharma1 11y ago
  No support for voice actions on Android TV it seems, shame. Bought an Nvidia Shield TV recently and while voice search is really good, it would be awesome to have wider voice control.
- blhack 11y ago
  Of course? How do I use it, because I have used a third party app for this for a while.
sp332 11y ago
Amazon's Echo also has an API https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-sk...
KirinDave 11y ago
Yes, someone else linked it. Another interesting point, Cortana is itself a CLIENT of open APIs you can build on as well. https://graph.microsoft.io/ https://graph.microsoft.io/ It's a pretty interesting concept. It means it's really easy to knit together a user. One of the most fascinating concepts is this notion exposed by mbrace of "just in time" and "user specific" clusters. You can use a user's Azure environment to do distributed computation on their behalf (after getting them to agree to charges, of course) without exporting their data to a generalized cloud infrastructure. This has a lot of potential for giving the user the best of both worlds. It's a hell of a lot more approachable than a DIY approach like Sovereign.
- tedks 11y ago
  What is Sovereign? It isn't googleable for me.
TheLogothete 11y ago
Not what you are asking about, but I find it very useful; Microsoft has a product called power BI which is a dashboarding/BI solution and you can create dashboards for Cortana.

by dharma1 11y ago

arihant 11y ago

I think both Siri and Google Now offer third-party hooks, even on the watches. I'm not sure about Cortana.

MBCook 11y ago
Siri does not, at least at the moment. It's widely hoped that it will, but today no.
- mikeash 11y ago
  A notable exception to this is HomeKit devices. While it's not close to what you'd want for a general third-party API, it does let you integrate some things. I've messed around a bit with using a server to fake being a HomeKit device to get some custom things working with Siri.

silverlake 11y ago

Cortana does: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/cortana https://dev.windows.com/en-us/cortana

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Grazester 11y ago

Of course Google now has an api that can be used for issuing voice commands for third party apps

dharma1 11y ago
No support for voice actions on Android TV it seems, shame. Bought an Nvidia Shield TV recently and while voice search is really good, it would be awesome to have wider voice control.
blhack 11y ago
Of course? How do I use it, because I have used a third party app for this for a while.

sp332 11y ago

Amazon's Echo also has an API https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-sk...

KirinDave 11y ago

Yes, someone else linked it. Another interesting point, Cortana is itself a CLIENT of open APIs you can build on as well. https://graph.microsoft.io/ https://graph.microsoft.io/ It's a pretty interesting concept. It means it's really easy to knit together a user. One of the most fascinating concepts is this notion exposed by mbrace of "just in time" and "user specific" clusters. You can use a user's Azure environment to do distributed computation on their behalf (after getting them to agree to charges, of course) without exporting their data to a generalized cloud infrastructure. This has a lot of potential for giving the user the best of both worlds. It's a hell of a lot more approachable than a DIY approach like Sovereign.

tedks 11y ago
What is Sovereign? It isn't googleable for me.

TheLogothete 11y ago

Not what you are asking about, but I find it very useful; Microsoft has a product called power BI which is a dashboarding/BI solution and you can create dashboards for Cortana.