Will Majel voice Google's rebuttal to Apple's Siri? - CNET
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Codenamed Majel after the late "Star Trek" actress Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, who provided the voice of the computer for all of the later versions of the popular science fiction TV series, the new voice assistant could launch as early as January or February. But Android and Me says that only Google search queries would be accessible in the first release since engineers have been working hard to get Majel off the ground. The project is reportedly being cooked up at Google X, the companys "secret" laboratory designed to turn futuristic ideas into reality, as profiled recently by The New York Times. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt recently referred to Siri as a "significant development" but one that he thinks could threaten the search giants core business. But Siri users can also tap into Bing, Yahoo, Wolfram Alpha, and a host of other online services to track down information and answers.
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