| rocketpig said: I keep hearing mixed reviews of JB's voice operation versus Siri (but in all reviews, they're close). Some say JB doesn't understand dialects as well as Siri and doesn't handle slang words as well as Apple's service. Others say that Siri is slower and that its voice is more uneven. Meh. I don't know what to believe at this point. I've used Siri quite a bit and it's pretty good. Understands me close to 100% of the time, though it's a little slower than I'd like. All in all, I hope Apple and Google continue to push each other in this market. I think it's the future of mobile computing... Not useful in all situations, but extremely useful in some (such as driving). The major downside I see right now is that JB just isn't being delivered to enough devices. It only has something like 2% of the Android market right now. Google promised that this would change soon but I'm not seeing much in the way of results yet. |
They are close to each other now. I'd still say Siri is better and general human natural speech and Google is better and finding the right stuff quickly. With JB the results are also better looking... something iOS6 started to copy.
I know Google has very good learning features, so regardless of your speech patterns, the more you use it the more precise it becomes. For me using it for a few years now, its nearly 100% for anything I say or ask. Additionally, if you've ever played with Google Translate, you'll realize it is very good at handling a great number of languages and their dialects. But if you have a very heavy accent of one language and you're speaking another, it will get tripped up more often.
Of course Android's biggest complaint is always its slower distribution of the latest updates. If a phone launched with ICS or later, that is greatly rectified as the OEM has only a few months to get it up vs over a year previously. So, its an improvement, but it will never match Apple due to the simple fact that there are FAR more players/devices in the field. But, that is why I always argue to buy Nexus.
