Of course, you can do many more things with Siri than you can do with Sensory's software, which is currently made for Android phones. For example, before you walk out the door for work in the morning, you can ask Siri if you'll need a raincoat. It will do all the work of checking the weather forecast for your geographical location and returning with an answer based on that forecast.

But if you have to repeat a question five times before you can get a response from an app or instead of answering your raincoat question, it displays a calendar item with the word "rain check" in it, then that app is likely to lose its luster pretty fast.

That could be the case with Siri, according to Morgan. "Apple's gateway into the iPhone's voice commands doesn't work that well," he asserts.

"Apple did a great job of making sure that the speech recognition is contextually aware," he adds. "At this point though, as usual, it's going to be speech recognition making promises that it can't deliver on at the moment."

, located in Santa Clara, California, has been around since 1994, and its speech recognition technology has been used in products produced by Plantronics, Motorola, Hasbro, Mattel, Kensington, and Samsung, as well as others.