While Apple's new "Siri" speech interface on the iPhone 4S may have a few more features and a little more intelligence than Windows Phone's current speech interface, Microsoft isn't standing still has been working on similar features for a while now. They put together this video that was released months ago of how a future version of Windows Phone will work with a more natural, personalized, and adaptive speech interface. Microsoft also shows how this will be highly integrated with Xbox and Kinect, which will be pretty cool. After all we know already that Windows Phone's speech UI shares the same system as the Xbox Kinect speech interface and that they learn from eachother. Source: Creamhackered
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