Available for a few weeks on iPhone, the perplexity application has improved. Users can now talk with the company’s voice assistant, but also ask you to perform specific tasks, such as making a reservation, reading music or a podcast, or sending an email.
Perplexity can replace Siri, Apple’s vocal assistant, whose optimized version will not come immediately. Tech & Co explains how to install it on your iPhone.
How to make perplexity to your new voice assistant?
To start, you must download the perplexity application in the App Store, then create an account with the email address of your choice. It is also possible to use your Apple or Google account. If the application is already installed on your iPhone, it will be necessary to update it to benefit from the voice assistant.
Keep in mind that it is not necessary to remove a subscription (22 euros per month) to use it. Once connected, it is found in the tab that allows you to interact with the perplexity chatbot. From there, simply press the icon on the right in the text input bar to exchange vocally with the assistant.
You just have to ask you to do a task. But it will be necessary to authorize perplexity to access various applications (Uber, mail, calendar …) necessary to carry out actions so that the assistant can carry them out. And he is going quite well, as Tech & Co.
When asked to reserve an Uber to go home, he does it without problem, just asking to specify the address of the house, then authorize access to the Uber application to open it and show the various racing options.
It also manages to add an event in the application of the calendar, indicating the day, time and type of event in question (meeting …).
However, the assistant can find some difficulties in reading music, having difficulty understanding the title of certain songs, as well as the artist’s name. For example, he took two attempts to play the song Messy From Lola Young in Apple Music, the chatbot understood for the first time we asked the song 2 grams German.
It is a bit more complicated to send emails. If the wizard can carry out this mission, you must ensure that the recipient’s email address is well in your contacts and tell you that you can find it in the application. The wizard then travels his contacts to find his recipient. He still asks if the email address he found is what he wants to send email.
If the email address is not registered in your contacts, you will request to dictate it orally. Once this is done, you should only indicate the object of your email and the content of the message so that the assistant transcribes them and offers an email version that can modify.
Source: BFM TV
