Sara - Siri Alternative

antodeco

Just installed 'Sara'. Looks and acts the same as Siri. No proxy server needed. All software based. Very quick.
However, it struggles to understand me. I'm going to try it for a few days and see does it learn me!

wolfyboy555

Where you get it?

antodeco

Add isoftjsc.com source to cydia and search for Sara

kjl

Not as good IMHO.

antodeco

kjl wrote: »

Not as good IMHO.

I agree totally, but things are going the right way. If they had the Sara GUI with Vlingo functionality, it would be perfect

squonk

Is it better or worse than Evi? I heard Evi had improved after the first release so I tried it last week. It's still a joke.

antodeco

Never used Evi so can't comment I'm afraid.

They've just updated Sara and so far out of 25 commands I've asked, it's recognised each one. Asked it to open safari and worked perfectly. The fact it's only out a month and it's like this already is great!

balkieb2002

antodeco wrote: »

Never used Evi so can't comment I'm afraid.

They've just updated Sara and so far out of 25 commands I've asked, it's recognised each one. Asked it to open safari and worked perfectly. The fact it's only out a month and it's like this already is great!

Just testing out the siri alternatives on non 4S and this does seem to be the best one though I am still having some issues with it recognising.

What settings did you use? As in language settings - English (UK)?

Also do you know if anyway to incorporate this with activator as its pointless having to go into the app to open something else i.e. safari

antodeco

I have it setup with activator. Hold down my home button and up she pops! When did you install Sara? When I reinstalled it two days ago, it's recognising me much better. I have English US on but she seems stuck on UK

balkieb2002

Sorry I forgot bout this thread, thanks for the reply, yeah I realized I was using the wrong option in activator (SARA dictation and not the actual app), seems to be opening fine now though still having hard time recognising some of my words. I updated it yesterday I think and seems to be working a bit better, prob just missing some of the commands. I tried the different versions of English but seem to get same results.

Nice alternative though and be good to see where it goes as it seems to be constantly updated.

biko

Installed it there on a whim but felt it was slowing iphone 4 down and not working well. I installed Siriport first and removed, then Sara. Maybe Siriport left some crap on the phone and this caused a conflict.

I usually use Vlingo so Sara looked promising.

biko

Gave siriport another whirl following this
http://modmyi.com/forums/file-mods/798814-siriport-tutorial-iphone-4-3g-3gs.html
and it started working 6 hours later, takes ages to activate.