This is a ridiculous comparison. Every question is ridiculous and straightforward. Of course a robot understand them. He never gets beyond this. Do call Round 2 difficult questions is just dumb. Why didn't he try actual complex commands, instead of his weaksauce 'Round 2'?
Things like:
'Remind me to pick up lettuce when I leave work'
'I need directions to the closest grocery store'
'Send message to Kim that I'll be home soon'
'I want to go see 'Brave'
These are actual tough questions, not robotic ones that he chose
This is also comparing iOS 5 to Jellybean instead of iOS 6. Here is what I get on iOS 6 when I ask 'Did the Yankees win?'
Epic Fail. Why compare a 1 year old OS to a 1 week old one?
That's what I noticed as well. I rarely used Voice Action before because I could never really remember the commands. But with Google Now, I'm using it more because I can speak naturally and it seems to understand and perform better. And everything seems faster and more responsive, input and output.
Because both are the newest shipping operating systems available from each respective company.Why compare a 1 year old OS to a 1 week old one?
I guess you finally get why people like Siri. When you can ask for stuff the way you normally talk, it becomes useful.
Because both are the newest shipping operating systems available from each respective company.
If I go to store.apple.com and order a iPhone 4S, it will arrive with iOS 5.1.1.
If I go to play.google.com and order a Galaxy Nexus, it will arrive with Android 4.1.
That's typically how product reviews are done: based on the currently available ship-to-retail product.
The funny thing about your point is I bet there are more people using iOS 6 than Jellybean right now.
Isn't Siri only on the Iphone 4S and Ipad 3? Even the Nexus S is getting the upgrades to google voice. Talk about fragmentation... on the ios platform.
Isn't Siri only on the Iphone 4S and Ipad 3? Even the Nexus S is getting the upgrades to google voice. Talk about fragmentation... on the ios platform.
True, but it needs to be accurate and fast to be truly useful. Suri doesn't have accuracy or speed. Google Now still needs to work on accuracy too but it has the speed.
I'd just like to point out the new voice in GVC sounds amazingly human. It makes Siri sound robotic and artificial.
Can someone test out the new version of google voice with the commands I posted above? I am curious to see how it handles those. Does google voice do geofencing reminders yet? Can you look up showtimes yet or just movie theaters? Will it text someone accurately by just using their first name? Can it go beyond just a list of grocery stores and actually give me directions to the closest one?
Here they are again:
'Remind me to pick up lettuce when I leave work'
'I need directions to the closest grocery store'
'Send message to Kim that I'll be home soon'
'I want to go see 'Brave'
Can someone test out the new version of google voice with the commands I posted above? I am curious to see how it handles those. Does google voice do geofencing reminders yet? Can you look up showtimes yet or just movie theaters? Will it text someone accurately by just using their first name? Can it go beyond just a list of grocery stores and actually give me directions to the closest one?
Here they are again:
'Remind me to pick up lettuce when I leave work'
'I need directions to the closest grocery store'
'Send message to Kim that I'll be home soon'
'I want to go see 'Brave'
Yes to all of that. Actually, Voice commands, which has been around since the beginning, could already do most of that.
Ive never read once where it says google voice does geofenced reminders. Please show me this in action or point to an article that proves this.
The videos posted around the thread already show the functionality you ask of it,
The videos posted around the thread already show the functionality you ask of it,
Also I JUST did those commands into stock Google Voice Commands. Not even Google Now.
'Remind me to pick up lettuce when I leave work' - Doesn't work in stock Voice. I can do this fine in Tasker though. And tasker is about 100000x more powerful than anything Siri can do.
'I need directions to the closest grocery store'- Opened up navigation app with directions to nearby grocery stores
'Send message to Kim that I'll be home soon'- Opened Messaging app with message prewritten to the reciever.
'I want to go see 'Brave'- Opened up Google search website and was able to click on a link to Brave.
I was attempting to make a tongue in cheek remark about google's perpetual beta nonsense. Clearly that did not come across as well as intended.More like bought a competing technology that may or may not have predated Google's functionality, and released it with more polish and usability (at the time) than Google's tech. Google has answered, we move forward and things get a little better.
Unless you press one button on the phone, say 'Remind me to pick up lettuce when I leave work' and it will create a geofence reminder for you to do so it is not a valid comparison. Does tasker even do voice commands in a similar vein to google voice commands and siri? Why are you even bringing it up?
The Butthurt in this post is amazing.
So when you are proven dead wrong you resort to an insult. Nice job, phandroid.
No. I'm pointing out how obscenely insulted you seem when Android already has most the features that you're touting from the very beginning against iOS. And for the one feature it DOESNT have, which of course you zero on because you have no argument, we already have an infinitely more powerful tool to do such actions.