Siri dictation now available on other iOS 5 devices with Siri0us [jailbreak]
28/11/2011 |
System wide voice-to-text dictation, once exclusive to iPhone 4S, has now been replicated on other iOS devices thanks to a Jailbreak hack called Siri0us.In order to use the dictation hack, you will need to have a jailbroken iOS 5 device. A point to note, the hack does not use Apple’s servers, it solely uses the Nuance speech recognition system on device, and it does not provide any of the Siri voice control features.
Currently it has been confirmed to work on an iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and...
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