Codebreaker

Susan Orlean’s smart search app review

author198 Jun 22, 2010

Susan Orlean, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of The Orchid Thief and other wonderful books, joined our show on Monday.  We’ve received some emails asking about the iPhone app she reviewed.  It’s called Siri.  Voice recognition is something we’re interested in; we’ve been talking about it on our blog. If you try Siri out, we’d love to know how the voice recognition works for you. /la

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