PayPal integrates with Sherpa to take on Siri

Sherpa, a voice-activated Android competitor to Apple's Siri virtual assistant has launched in the US, with support for automated funds transfer between PayPal accounts.

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PayPal integrates with Sherpa to take on Siri

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Since it launched for Spanish speaking countries in October, Sherpa has been downloaded almost half a million times. Much like Apple's Siri, users can ask Sherpa to play a song, book a flight, update a Facebook status and call up stock prices, among other things.

Unlike Siri, Sherpa also offers support for money transfers to via PayPal to a user's mobile contacts. To access the service, users have to declare that they are over 18 and, for the moment, may only send up to a maximum of $5 to the specified account.



The product, which is still in beta, can be downloaded from the Google Play store.

News of Sherpa's launch comes as e-commerce retailer Amazon moves into the voice recognition market with a $26 million acquisition of Siri clone Evi, which works on both Apple and Android devices.

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