By John Glenday

Two engineers who helped build Siri, the famous voice assistant built into every iPhone, have claimed to have gone one step better with an all new digital assistant nicknamed Viv.

Unlike her predecessor promiscuous Viv flirt will not be locked down to one ecosystem – an advantage which is likely to set it apart from the likes Facebook’s M, Microsoft’s Cortana, Google Now and Siri itself by Apple.

Anyone familiar with existing voice assistants will feel instantly at home with the latest version, which relies on users clicking on a ‘Viv’ button before posing it a question or voice command.

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Source: The Drum