Perplexity's iOS app will get an AI voice assistant

Perplexity has rolled out an replace for its iOS app, giving iPhone customers entry to its AI voice assistant that was initially launched for Android customers earlier this yr. Its voice assistant can carry out duties for the person by searching the online or accessing different apps for them. In the event that they ask the assistant to seek out them a desk for a particular restaurant, as an example, Perplexity can launch the OpenTable app with the variety of folks, the date and the time already stuffed out. The person nonetheless has to carry out the ultimate motion and e book a reservation, nevertheless it’s already laid out for them — all they must do is click on the button.

Customers can even ask the assistant to draft emails for them for particular contacts, which they will must ship themselves, and create reminders for them on the calendar. They’ll ask it to suggest them spots they may go to, corresponding to eating places serving meals they need to eat, and Perplexity will mark places on the map. After all, they’ll ask the assistant to do net searches for them, corresponding to discovering particular movies that Perplexity can open on the YouTube app.

As The Verge notes, Perplexity’s voice assistant works on older iPhones, not like Apple Intelligence that solely works on the corporate’s more moderen fashions. The iOS assistant additionally would not have the potential to have a look at the world for the person and inform them what they’re seeing but, although the characteristic is already obtainable on Android and will make its option to iPhones sooner or later.

Introducing Perplexity iOS Voice Assistant

Voice Assistant makes use of net searching and multi-app actions to e book reservations, ship emails and calendar invitations, play media, and extra—all from the Perplexity iOS app.

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