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Abortion-finding aside, Siri isn’t that bad. That’s why Google is reportedly feverishly working on its own version of the voice-activated, natural-language assistant, code-named Majel. It’s named after Gene Roddenberry’s wife — the voice of many a Star Trek computer. While we can’t currently confirm a release date, rumours put its street date prior to the new year. More speculation is available at Android and Me.
I doubt it’ll take too long to launch this, so release before new year is believable. Most of the functionality is there anyway as it’s all in Google’s voice search already, they just need to make it pretend to have conversations with you like Siri does.
If they are genuinely trying to make a Siri clone it’s not that easy as they have to cut functionality out of Google voice actions, not to mention reduce it’s ability to recognise accents.
Odds on it’s ICS only taking all bets
Possibly, the voice engine has been much improved on ICS.