Port Siri to iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch, iPad 1 Legally with Spire

J. Miller, Ph.D. on January 1, 2012 with 0 Comments

Spire enables Siri to be legally ported to the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G/3G and the iPad 1. It was developed by chpwn and requires the device to be jailbroken on iOS 5 first. Spire is available on Cydia in the BigBoss repository and can be installed by simply searching for “Spire”.

Spire provides the first legal port of Siri to other iDevices by using a completely different method to obtain all of the necessary files legally and directly from Apple’s servers. Spire is not without any problems a unique proxy set-up along with an iPhone 4S for authentication to get Siri running on the older iDevice.

Developer chpwn has some interesting comments on the port.

However, Spire is not a complete solution. Apple still requires authorization to use Siri, so information from an iPhone 4S is still required. To insert this information, Spire allows you to enter your own proxy server address. I’ve put up a list of my ideas on how you might get access to a proxy; hopefully you can figure something out.
To get a Siri proxy, chpwn suggests:
westbaer’s SiriProxy fork
Own an iPhone 4S too: Maybe you already own an iPhone 4S, and just want Siri on another device of yours. This is simple; you can just use the above proxy yourself.
Find a friend: Maybe your friend has an iPhone 4S and will let you use their authentication tokens (maybe in exchange for some cool SiriProxy plugins). Then, you can share the authentication. Or, maybe you gave your relative your old iPhone when you got your iPhone 4S: now you can share your token and give them Siri.
Pay up: It’s very likely that soon we will see for-pay services online to rent you some space on a Siri proxy, attached to one of their iPhone 4S devices. I haven’t seen anything like this yet, but I’ll keep my eye out, and I would encourage anyone who is interested to set something like this up.
And now for something completely different: As I suggested earlier, you might be able to replace Siri entirely. A simple method might be to use Google Chrome’s speech “API” hooked up to some code to decode the Siri requests and parse Google’s result. Or, someone could hook it up to some logic backends like many of the clones available on Android: the possibilities are endless.

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