With the new iPhone 4S, many were swayed to pick up the latest model due to its new voice recognition feature, Siri. With Android users left a bit out, a few developers from Dexetra.com managed to get a Siri-alike app up and running in about 8 hours. So meet Iris and entertain yourself by asking it as many simple, serious, or fun questions as you wish.

Similar to Siri, Iris will rummage the internet to answer your questions the best it can. With the potential it could have, the team is excited to get the chance to polish it even further and have something pretty substantial. Lead developer Narayan Babu had this to say,

When we started seeing results, everyone got excited and started a high speed coding race. In no time, we added Voice input, Text-to-speech, also a lot of hueristic humor into Iris. Not until late evening we decided on the name “iris.”, which would be Siri in reverse. And we also reverse engineered a crazy expansion - Intelligent Rival Imitator of Siri. We were still in the fun mode, but when we started using it the results were actually good, really good.

Though the official release isn’t out yet (it’ll be arriving on the Android Market soon), you can try it out the early beta if you can’t wait.

Totally love that play on the name, so clever to name it Iris.

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