Perplexity’s voice assistant is now out there on iOS

Perplexity‘s voice assistant has hit Apple gadgets.

Introduced by the San Francisco-based, Nvidia- and Jeff Bezos-backed firm on X on Wednesday, the AI search engine’s iOS app now consists of the flexibility to speak aloud with the assistant. Perplexity’s Android app launched in January in 15 languages.

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The voice assistant lets you transfer past the app itself inside the dialog with a view to e book a desk at a restaurant or a rideshare, present instructions, examine your calendar, play music, or draft and ship an electronic mail.

You’ll find it inside the Perplexity iOS app inside the search bar on the backside of the display screen subsequent to “Ask anything.” Tapping this can immediate you to permit the app to entry the microphone and you can begin chatting.

I requested Perplexity to search out me the perfect espresso close to me and it generated a map of “highly rated” cafes in London whereas itemizing them aloud. Once I requested Perplexity the place it drew the knowledge from, it stated, “A combination of sources including TripAdvisor and Google Maps, which include user ratings and reviews to highlight popular spots.”

From “a combination of sources including TripAdvisor and Google Maps.”
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Perplexity’s voice assistant arrives on iOS at a time when rivals like Google’s Gemini Reside, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Voice Mode, and AI startup Sesame are aiming for seamless chats aloud with multimodal AI assistants.

The information additionally comes simply over a month after Perplexity introduced its personal Deep Analysis device, powered by a model of DeepSeek R1.