Indigo brings Siri-like assistance to Android for free (Hands on video)

Indigo brings the functionality of the iPhone's Siri to Android and Windows Phone 8, letting you sync the account across all your devices.

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BARCELONA, Spain -- Fancy challenging Siri to schedule every aspect of your busy life but don't want an iPhone? Great news for you then as Artificial Solution's Indigo service brings similar functionality to Android, Windows Phone 8 and your web browser. Better yet, it's completely free.

Indigo works in much the same way as Siri; Ask it your question and it will use its various channels -- web searches, a built in catalogue of commands and, also like Siri, Wolfram Alpha information -- to perform the required task.

The usual requests of "What is the weather doing in Barcelona this week?" are handled perfectly well and it's also able to create appointments, open apps, dictate and send emails or post statuses to your social networks of choice. Unlike Siri though, Indigo is available across multiple platforms and also lets you use one account to sync across them all.

The benefit of that is that if you begin creating an appointment on your Windows Phone device then switch to your Nexus 10 Android tablet, your previous requests will already be there waiting for you. You can then finish off your searches without going through all the previous stages. Just think of it like updating a document in Google Docs and loading ... [Read more]