Apple Inc. has officially confirmed that it has completed the acquisition of Q.ai, an Israeli audio artificial intelligence startup. This move is seen as a significant step for Apple in the field of AI voice interaction, aiming to enable the voice assistants on devices such as the iPhone to "understand" users even in extreme environments.

The team from Q.ai has been fully integrated into Apple. Notably, its CEO Aviad Maizels is now second time to "marry" his company into Apple - back in 2013, he founded PrimeSense, which was acquired by Apple. Johny Srouji, Senior Vice President of Apple's Hardware Technology, gave high praise for this acquisition, commending Q.ai's creative application of imaging and machine learning.

For a long time, Siri's recognition rate has been criticized when there is background noise or when users speak unclearly. The core competitiveness of Q.ai, however, lies in focusing on improving the voice understanding capability of devices in non-ideal environments. This technology can not only effectively filter out environmental noise, but also allow the voice assistant to accurately interpret very low-volume "whispers," greatly expanding the application scenarios of Siri.

Currently, Google and OpenAI have taken the lead in the voice interaction of AI chat assistants. Faced with increasing competitive pressure, Apple is urgently carrying out the "reengineering" of Siri, striving to make this veteran voice assistant more personalized and conversational.

Although it is expected that the technology from this acquisition may not be ready for the next major system update, in the long term, the addition of Q.ai will inject key momentum into future iterations of Siri. By introducing deeper machine learning capabilities, Apple aims to completely improve Siri's performance in complex real-world scenarios, redefining the accuracy of human-computer voice interaction.