When Apple announced last year
that all iPhones would come with a voice-activated
assistant named Siri, capable of answering spoken
questions, Michael Phillips’s heart sank.
For three decades, Mr. Phillips had focused on
writing software to allow computers to understand
human speech. In 2006, he had co-founded a voice
recognition company, and eventually executives at
Apple, Google and elsewhere proposed partnerships.
Mr. Phillips’s technology was even integrated into
Siri itself before the digital assistant was
absorbed into the iPhone.
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