Android and Me suggests that Google's answer to Siri is named Majel, and will be released early next year (if not sooner), with engineers at Google's X laboratory working "around the clock" on the new app. Majel will supposedly be the evolution of voice actions, which have been a part of Android since version 2.1 but currently lack the natural language interpretation of Siri — Android and Me says Majel will initially be limited to Google Searches, with more functionality to come. The name Majel is a reference to Majel Barrett-Rodenberry, Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry's wife and the voice of the ship's computer throughout the series. You might remember that back in October Matias Duarte described Android's approach to speech to text as "more like Star Trek, [...] everything is voice-aware. It’s not that there’s a personality, it doesn’t have a name, it’s just 'Computer.'" If the rumored name is correct, it seems like they've taken this to heart.