We have seen the excellent Google Voice capabilities in Android 4.1 and how it beats Apple Siri hands down. The good news is Apple iPhone users without Siri, now need not mess with hacks and tweaks like SiriProxy to get voice search functionality as Google has now officially launched the Google Voice Search for Apple iOS.

The new Google Search app for iPhone and iPad lets users perform enhanced voice searches using accurate voice recognition technology which works with many different accents world-over. Watch the demo videos posted ahead.

As announced with Apple iPhone 5, the Apple iOS 6 upgrade made it to public downloading today. According to Apple, iOS 6 has more than 200+ new features and is aimed to deliver a stable and responsive mobile operating-system to all recent iDevice.

While majority of these 200+ new features are nothing more than minor tweaks and cosmetic changes, the major new features are new Apple Maps, improved Siri, Passbook, tight Facebook integration throughout the OS, Shared Photo Streams, Facetime over cellular, new calling features like call decline with text message or a callback reminder, Do Not Disturb mode, iCloud tabs and the ability to update apps without having to enter your password.

Direct, resumable download links and torrents for Apple iOS6 for iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and other supported iDevices (as shown in image above) posted after the jump.

Google unveiled the latest version 4.1 of Android mobile operating-system "JellyBean" with announcement of Nexus 7, and with it comes the new "Google Speech Recognition" technology.

Apple's voice recognition assistant "Siri" is a hit and Google can't afford to loose behind, there were rumors of development of similar technology codenamed "Google Majel" and the results are out now with introduction of new "Google Speech Recognition" with Android 4.1 JellyBean. Here is a video showdown how Apple Siri and Google Voice Recognition competes each other.

Spire the Siri port for non-iPhone4S Apple devices is sadly no longer developed and would even refuse to install on Apple iOS 5.1 . While trying to install via Cydia you will receive the following error. However, there is an alternative way to get this on iOS 5.1 as shown ahead.

Speaktoit, the top-rated virtual assistant app on Android since launching in October 2011, has come to Apple’s iOS platform. Whereas Siri, Apple’s homegrown virtual assistant, only works on the iPhone 4S, Speaktoit will give older iPhone their very own assistant that performs most of the same tasks as Siri (and even some that Siri cannot do, such as updating a user’s Facebook page). Speaktoit is now available for $1.99 on the App Store. However, on Valentine’s Day (February 14th), Speaktoit will be free to the first 100,000 people.

While Google is paving it's way to offer a competitive virtual voice assistant to Apple's "Siri", the current Siri Alternative solution's on Android platform are not very exciting. Thankfully, under some new exciting development "Nuance Communications" - the team behind technology powering Siri, have released a similar application for Android.

Dragon Go! features the tested and dependable, Nuance voice-recognition and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology allowing users to get direct access to 200+ of the most recognized destinations on the Mobile Web today spanning mobile entertainment and streaming media, social networking, shopping, and every other online content need imaginable simply by using their voice.

The only worth talking-about feature in Apple iPhone 4S is without a doubt the virtual voice assistant "Siri", while the popularity of this feature has caused many ports and hacks on other devices like "Spire", Android Speaktoit and in-works "Google Majel" why should "Windows Phone 7" be left aside. Thanks to new free (also adfree), virtual voice assistant application "Ask Ziggy" downloadable from "Windows Marketplace" this is now possible.

Ask Ziggy makes use of renowned Nuance speech-to-text analysis and natural-language-processing (NLP) technology coupled with advance web scraping and mash-up techniques to offer a worthy experience, a demonstration video is available after the jump.

It was just a matter of time after Apple made the decrypted ramdisks available with newer build of iOS 5.01 for legal Siri ports to appear, and that time has now come with popular iPhone dev @chpwn releasing the first legal port for "Siri" via Cydia. Dubbed "Spire" the legal port allows hackers to get required Siri files legally (gets downloaded from Apple servers) on older devices like iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4G etc.

Apple's Siri virtual voice assistant seems to have sparked the demand for virtual butlers, tech giant Google is being reported all set to offer their own alternative to "Siri" as "Majel" named after "Majel Barrett" - the voice of the Federation Computer from Star Trek. While all the previous attempts to mimic "Siri" functionality on Android have not been very promising, codenamed project "Majel" will be an evolution to Google’s Voice Actions adding the ability to process natural language. Rumored to get released/announced publicly by end of this year this would be definitely the way to go for future of computing.

Comments from senior Google executive "Amit Singhal" very much sums what Google wants to achieve with "Majel" and change the way we compute today :

Apple is placing high bets on it's iPhone 4S voice control utility "Siri", to highlight the feature Apple is airing a new advertisement on television showing Santa with Siri - the full advt. is available for your pleasure after the jump.