Natural language personal assistant, Maluuba, now available for Windows Phone 8

Maluuba is a personal assistant app that takes advantage of voice commands to help you brand information technology through the mean solar day. Information technology'south a pop app over on the Android format and today, the visitor has announced the app is headed to Windows Telephone eight devices.

Maluuba uses your Windows Telephone'due south spoken communication recognition for input and then uses it's proprietary, patent-pending language engine that ensures great accuracy in interpreting your requests. Maluuba uses a statistical approach to achieve a college accuracy than many other assistant apps that may utilize rules or other methods for understanding that don't always handle natural sentences.

Maluuba for Windows Phone 8 will offer a large feature set designed to help users manage daily life and search for things in a simple, straight forrad fashion. Features of Maluuba include:

Searches for restaurants, movies, events and businesses
Scheduling of alarms, reminders, and meetings
Voice dialing, texting and emailing
Search for directions and weather
Online shopping
Search the web
Integration with your Outlook calendar.

Information technology is our understanding that boosted features are in the works and will get bachelor in the coming months.

Much like Siri over on iOS, Maluuba volition further our hands free experience with our Windows Phones. We've already seen Diablo announce for Windows Telephone eight and information technology volition be interesting to see how these personal assistants compare. Based on the demo video below with Maluuba running on an Android device, the Windows Phone version should be interesting.

We'll accept Maluuba out for a test bulldoze over the next few days and meet how well it tin selection up on a Southern accent. In the meantime, if you lot'd similar to give Maluuba a effort yourself it is a free app that you can find hither in the Windows Phone Store.

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