Apple: Siri Is All Grown Up

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Chris Taylor
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Apple: Siri Is All Grown Up

We're less than three weeks away from the second birthday of Siri: October 4, the day Apple's intelligent voice-activated assistant was unveiled alongside the iPhone 4S.

But Apple has already declared Siri a fully grown piece of software by quietly removing the "beta" designation from the bottom of the Siri page on its website.

The change, first spotted by 9to5Mac, comes as Siri gets a major upgrade in iOS 7, which goes into wide release on Wednesday.

The iOS 7 version of the voice assistant comes with a lot more integration. Wikipedia is baked in, and Siri will display tweets from any Twitter account you care to mention. You can also customize his or her voice much more, including gender. In iOS 6, American English users got a female voice while British English users heard a male voice.

Apple rarely gives products a "beta" designation, which signals to the user that software isn't quite complete. Until recently, Google frequently used the beta label, even on products that seemed complete. Google News, for example, was officially in beta for four years after its launch.

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