Perplexity AI: A Fresh Alternative to Siri for Voice Assistance

### Quick Summary
– AppleS Siri is facing performance issues, especially in responding to simple queries and creating calendar events.
– Apple has postponed updates to improve Siri’s capabilities via “Apple Intelligence” until the end of the year.
– Perplexity AI’s Voice Assistant aims to fill this gap and offers features such as creating calendar events, reminders, drafting emails, playing music, web-based actions, and conversational AI.
– Perplexity integrates seamlessly with Apple’s default apps like Calendar, Reminders, Mail, Contacts after permission is granted. It also connects to external platforms like Uber for booking assistance or YouTube for quick video searches.
– The Voice mode on Perplexity supports background operation and interactive conversations while retaining contextual memory of previous prompts/questions.
– Limitations encountered: Issues with text messaging feature despite full access permissions; inability to replace Siri at the OS level (e.g., toggling system settings).
– Despite some shortcomings in its beta phase (like occasional task failures), Perplexity provides reliable responses for non-system-level tasks.