After the emergence of Apple Siri and followed its competitors in the Android platform as Samsung S-Voice, Google Voice Search or LG Quick Voice, Windows Phone platform now turn to the teeth with applications Ask Ziggy.
Ask Ziggy application is indeed not much different from similar applications are first present in the market such as Apple and Google Voice Search Siri who was present as an intelligent assistant ready to help users.
Like the Apple Siri, Ask Ziggy can also answer questions of users, even it has the ability to answer business areas such as stock quotes and answer any questions.
Unlike the Apple-owned Siri, Ask subuah Ziggy was developed by an independent company and has just announced that it has secured funding worth USD $ 5 million from a multi-national companies.
Ask Ziggy company declined to companies that have contributed substantial funds, but some pundits speculated that the company is Microsoft.
Ask Ziggy plans to be present in non-Windows platforms such as Android Phone and Apple's IOS in the third quarter of 2012, but until recently, the application is only available for devices based on Windows Phone.
Nuance, a developer of intelligent assistant Siri and Nina is known to have formed a partnership with Ask Ziggy. Not only Nuance, Ask Ziggy also has a partnership with Kopin Corporation in Golden-i program.
As reported by TechCrunch, with funds amounting to USD $ 5 million will be used to expand the applications Ask Ask Ziggy Ziggy to a new platform and immediately released the SDK (Software Development Kit) for developers to take advantage of voice-based intelligent assistant.
Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.
