--- title: Domino's Developing Siri Technology for Mobile Pizza Orders description: Unlike the operating system in "Her," this one probably won't love you unconditionally canonical: https://time.com/2889541/dominos-pizza-develops-its-own-siri-so-you-never-have-to-speak-to-a-human-again/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-17T15:00:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:51.281Z og:title: Domino's Has Developed Its Own Version of Siri og:description: So you can continue to order pizza without speaking to an actual human og:url: https://time.com/2889541/dominos-pizza-develops-its-own-siri-so-you-never-have-to-speak-to-a-human-again/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ba5bdf0dc390f01/69868362e8524b108660196b/149615739.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Pizza og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Domino's Has Developed Its Own Version of Siri twitter:description: So you can continue to order pizza without speaking to an actual human twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ba5bdf0dc390f01/69868362e8524b108660196b/149615739.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Domino's Pizza Develops Its Own Siri So You Never Have to Speak to a Human Again > Sponsored content. 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So it’s like Siri, except exclusively for pizza. As Etta James would [say](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZXvLsltu2A&feature=kp), _At last, my love has come along._ The feature, nicknamed “Dom,” is part of a partnership with software company Nuance, who customized the technology for Domino’s, the [Associated Press](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/dominos-introduces-siri-take-mobile-orders) and [Mashable](http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/dominos-siri-dom-app/) report. Nuance aimed to make the virtual experience similar to the real-life interactions you’d have with a human Domino’s employee. “It’s our best ever synthesized text to speech voice on a mobile application,” Nuance executive Robert Weideman [told Mashable](http://mashable.com/2014/06/16/dominos-siri-dom-app/). “It acts just like a person a would.” The feature, available for both iOS and Android, is still in beta, so you should probably expect to encounter some kinks that still need to be worked out, Domino’s CEO Patrick Doyle [told the AP](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/dominos-introduces-siri-take-mobile-orders). No word yet on whether Dom will ask you about your day or [meddle in your personal life while you’re trying to play video games](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7MgbMI5zhw). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2889541/dominos-pizza-develops-its-own-siri-so-you-never-have-to-speak-to-a-human-again/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2889541/dominos-pizza-develops-its-own-siri-so-you-never-have-to-speak-to-a-human-again/"},"headline":"Domino's Pizza Develops Its Own Siri So You Never Have to Speak to a Human Again","datePublished":"2014-06-17T15:00:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:51.281Z","description":"Unlike the operating system in \"Her,\" this one probably won't love you unconditionally","url":"https://time.com/2889541/dominos-pizza-develops-its-own-siri-so-you-never-have-to-speak-to-a-human-again/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food","Technology","Pizza","Mobile","Siri","Domino's","iphones"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ba5bdf0dc390f01/69868362e8524b108660196b/149615739.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ba5bdf0dc390f01/69868362e8524b108660196b/149615739.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pizza","caption":"Pizza","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2889541/dominos-pizza-develops-its-own-siri-so-you-never-have-to-speak-to-a-human-again/","name":"Domino's Pizza Develops Its Own Siri So You Never Have to Speak to a Human Again"}}]}] ```