Video: Google Now Schools Siri

[NikolaeVarius]

You are wrong and you wont admit it. You try and fit a square peg into a round hole. At least vshah comes in here and proves what I said: Google voice actions does not do geofence reminders. It doesn't. End of story. Nothing you can say or twist will change this.

You are the one trying to change the conversation to something that we aren't even talking about. This is the reason why there aren't many apple users in this forum. It's all a bunch of apple haters throwing all the shit on the wall and hoping something sticks, then insulting the apple users in the process. You have proven my exact point.

Of course, if you actually already read my post instead of being insulted by it for some reason, I already conceded Voice actions doesn't do geofencing. Then I gave the argument we already have more powerful ways of doing what you talk about.

Read before you rage. Make arguments based on what you read, not on emotions.

 

[openwheel]

sorry, but Siri got PWNED!!! It's loud and clear in the video evidence.

 

[TuxDave]

Of course, if you actually already read my post instead of being insulted by it for some reason, I already conceded Voice actions doesn't do geofencing. Then I gave the argument we already have more powerful ways of doing what you talk about.

Read before you rage. Make arguments based on what you read, not on emotions.

So is tasker a replacement for Google Voice commands?

 

[psych2]

So is tasker a replacement for Google Voice commands?

Tasker is an automation tool that is powerful enough to supplement Google Voice Actions.

 

[Zaap]

I'd MUCH rather have Tasker than rely on only voice commands.

While some people are busy looking like buttheads yapping at their phone, a Tasker user's phone just DOES most of the same stuff and more automatically.

But of course, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS let's remember than in all of this: actual functions and getting tasks done ranks a DISTANT LAST of things to consider. Top priority is: team sports pissing match comparisons and spouting Apple's marketing hype as unshakable fact.

 

[sciwizam]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkhp6BwnGo

Google Voice Search responding to over 40 different kinds of questions, impressive!

 

[Crow550]

That is pretty damn cool.

Wonder what Apple is planning with Siri on Iphone 5?

Both will continue to improve this tech. Awesome stuff.

 

[WelshBloke]

Tasker is an automation tool that is powerful enough to supplement Google Voice Actions.

Its a pain in the arse getting tasker to do anything complicated though.

 

[MrX8503]

I'd MUCH rather have Tasker than rely on only voice commands.

While some people are busy looking like buttheads yapping at their phone, a Tasker user's phone just DOES most of the same stuff and more automatically.

But of course, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS let's remember than in all of this: actual functions and getting tasks done ranks a DISTANT LAST of things to consider. Top priority is: team sports pissing match comparisons and spouting Apple's marketing hype as unshakable fact.

Don't you have to manually set up tasker? If that's the case, how is it a competitor to GVC or Siri?

 

[gorcorps]

Tasker is an automation tool that is powerful enough to supplement Google Voice Actions.

All it can handle is routine things that don't change. I'm not even sure why it was brought up at all... Tasker and voice commands are meant for very different things. There's no reason to pick one or the other when life is best when you have both.

 

[Anubis]

Its a pain in the arse getting tasker to do anything complicated though.

yes and no, it has a steap learning curve but once you figure it out its really easy to use

anyone that has any programming expirence should not have an issue with it

i showed it to my boss and he went nuts with it

 

[vshah]

tasker should not be part of this discussion. end of story.

 

[MrX8503]

yes and no, it has a steap learning curve but once you figure it out its really easy to use

anyone that has any programming expirence should not have an issue with it

i showed it to my boss and he went nuts with it

You expect everyday people to have programming experience? A programmer's brain is wired differently than the normal joe.

 

[Crow550]

I wonder what Vlingo has planned too?

It's what I currently use as I'm currently on Android 2.3.6.

The car mode is pretty cool in Vlingo. Android has an official car mode called Car Home but it's really limited on devices unless you side load it.

Everyone working on better voice assist is always cool.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkhp6BwnGo

Ok, I admit. Google Now wins. Barrel Roll at the end seals the deal.

 

[BladeVenom]

Microsoft can do speech recognition to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ

 

[kubani1]

That is pretty damn cool.

Wonder what Apple is planning with Siri on Iphone 5?

Both will continue to improve this tech. Awesome stuff.

:thumbsup:

 

[WelshBloke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkhp6BwnGo

Ok, I admit. Google Now wins. Barrel Roll at the end seals the deal.

Hmmm, much as I hate voice recognition stuff that did look quite impressive (if it was legit).

 

[WelshBloke]

Microsoft can do speech recognition to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ

Lol.

You're a bad, bad man.

 

[sygyzy]

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'

Here you go:

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I think the day apps can start tying into Google Now tha twould be awesome. Isn't that Apple's pledge in iOS6? That Siri's API will start opening up to apps?

The "I want to see Brave" is useless, but if it opens the flixster app.... then that's 10x as useful.

 

[soccerballtux]

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'

you can phrase it in a difficult way or you can phrase it in a simple way.
That siri/GNow can't do it the "difficult" way doesn't matter.
The point is being able to speak instead of tap.

so intead of

'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'

do

'Remind me to pick up lettuce at 5p'
'navigate to publix'
'Text Kim, I'll be home soon'
'navigate to movie theater'

and it's fine. TBH this is all google needs.

 

[lothar]

1.) How many wood chucks can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
2.) What is the meaning of life?

What's the answer to those questions using Google Now vs. Siri vs. Samsung's S-Voice?

 

[TheStu]

you can phrase it in a difficult way or you can phrase it in a simple way.
That siri/GNow can't do it the "difficult" way doesn't matter.
The point is being able to speak instead of tap.

so intead of

do

and it's fine. TBH this is all google needs.

'Remind me to pick up lettuce when I leave work'
Some days I might leave from work late, or early, having the reminders be location based rather than, or in addition to, time based allows for such variation. The biggest problem I had in the past with reminders was trying to figure out when was the best time to set them to go off at.

'I need directions to the closest grocery store'
That sort of thing is useful if you are in a strange place. If I told my phone to point me to publix out here in Naperville, it would tell me that the nearest one was in Chicago, 35 miles away.

'Send message to Kim that I'll be home soon'
Your wording is better here. Send text to Kim is more likely, the only reason why 'send message' would be more appropriate is if for some reason you weren't sure if you had their number or email address, but in this specific context, you would know.

'I want to go see 'Brave'
This is intentionally vague, but I think that there is some value in the vagueness. Let's say I asked it 'When is the next showing of Brave?' And it would look up the showtimes at the closest theaters, and advise you which was the next showing based on the current time and location. Knowing that the next showing is in 5 minutes does you no good if you haven't left the house yet. Knowing that there is a showing in 45 minutes at the theater closest to you is useful.

All that said, I don't have Siri or Google Now. And until I get a new phone (it will be an iPhone, I am pretty well locked into the ecosystem and actually prefer the UI) I won't have them, but if the two bigs are pushing the issue and improving matters, getting us closer to real, foolproof natural language dictation that will make our lives easier without having to work around the constraints of the system, then I am all for it.

 

[sciwizam]

Android Director: ‘We Have the Most Accurate, Conversational, Synthesized Voice in the World’

We set out to create the very first conversational voice, and I think we nailed that. I think we have the very first high-quality, natural-sounding, conversational, synthesized voice in the entire world.
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It’s very deliberately not making jokes with you. Google is a neutral party — it’s not your friend, secretary or sister. It’s not your mom. It’s not your girlfriend or boyfriend. It is an information retrieval entity. You ask, we respond. And it’s very important that this entity be impartial, and adding jokes and other mannerisms to the voice would take away from that.