Apple Siri

American tech giant Apple is apparently working on a way to let you make apps for its long-rumoured mixed reality headset using Siri

The platform's first priority is to support different languages as there are already many projects trying to create an English voice assistant

The voice has arrived a little under a year after Apple added its last two American Siri voices, and stopped defaulting to using a female-sounding voice

Siri has been criticized as embodying several facets of gender bias in artificial intelligence

Apple is bringing its lossless audio technology to HomePod and HomePod Mini in a future software update

Siri, who is proficient at stone walling curious Apple fans quizzing it about new products and upcoming events, prematurely seemed to have revealed the plan to hold an event next Tuesday.

The world's largest online retailer has worked for years to popularize speakers, televisions and other devices that customers activate through speech

The researchers noted it was possible to make microphones respond to light as if it were sound, which essentially means that anything that acts on sound commands will act on light commands

Siri allows users to work their iPhone without using their hands, and can send messages, make calls and open multiple applications with voice commands alone

Users need to find a balance in the trade off between convenience and loss of privacy

The Cupertino-based company is widely viewed as lagging its rivals in key areas of artificial intelligence.

Siri's behaviour becomes a privacy issue because it can read out messages and emails from third-party apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Gmail

Shift in Siri's leadership comes as Apple faces competition to get users speaking to its devices

Developers will keep an eye out for hints about new capabilities in the next iPhone