Siri is a buzzing topic of mobile community as a whole. All of the major smartphone platform developers have tried to imitate the functionality of Siri in one or another way. The voice based personal assistant is talk of the town and is present in one or another form in Android and Windows Phone marketplace. Even Cydia is not an exception. In fact, many of developers have provided Siri clone and Siri tweaks to capitalize on the available opportunity.

Android community has the most number of Siri clone to date. Obviously, some of them came tad close to mimicking the functionality of Apple’s Siri. Amongst those apps, Speaktoit application has outperformed other equivalent applications of the same genre.

Speaktoit was launched back in October 2011 in Android marketplace. Since then it has got more than 1.5 million downloads making it the most used personal assistant software on Google’s Android platform. Now, the developer of Speaktoit has decided to port this application to iOS platform. While developers have created many clone of Siri, none of them have came even close to the Siri. Probably, this is the reason why Apple has always been applauded by all, as they provide top-notch product for consumption.

By looking at the track record of Apple, it would not be hard to judge that Apple will not allow a perfect illegal clone to enter into iTunes backyard. Speaktoit has just made into the Apple’s iTunes store. Speaktoit is rather blessing in a disguise for old generation iOS device owners. Few days back, we mentioned about Sara for old generation iOS device owner. It would be possible to run Sara on iPhone 2G and other devices as well, making it as a perfect companion if you’re foraging for a Siri-like application.

Despite Sara being an only resort for old generation ARM based iDevices, its functionality and usefulness is apocryphal. Conversely, Speaktoit been designed to work with new generation devices – iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. It is rather a virtual buddy that uses natural language than restricted narrations in Siri. This will arride the new generation iDevice users, since it astutely integrates natural language dictation.

Instead of insipid flashing purple circle like figure replying to your queries, Speaktoit smartly integrates different assistants to guide you through. Users can choose a different assistant from a set of given characters. Let’s sail back to the features of Speaktoit app for iPhone.

Features of Speaktoit

• Connect to different sites
• Support for Foursquare, Evernote, Google, Facebook, Twitter and many more
• Search for News
• Search images
• Search Maps
• Find weather information
• Send email
• Currency converter

The developer strives to improve the functionality of Speaktoit every days. Overall, the application is very slick and professionally designed which gives it an edge over to other applications under the same category. Natural language assistance makes it much more simpler to use and adopt to. Comparing it to Siri would be unfair, as it has limited resource and APIs compared to Siri. However, it is definitely worth a shot for old generation iOS device users. As of writing this article, Speaktoit 0.2 version works on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, iPod touch and iPad running on iOS 4.0 or later.

Download Speaktoit at $1.99 from the iTunes store