![]() ![]() ![]() This is subtle but meaningful in comparing the experiences of using Siri and Google Voice Actions. What Siri offers that is not equally true for Google Voice Actions or Nuance’s Dragon Go! is broad and deep integration into the phone and a more conversational style of interaction. That may now change as Android users, seeing the hype around Siri, explore the broader potential of Google Voice Actions. But my guess is that most Android owners haven’t used it much beyond voice search or using speech instead of the keyboard to dictate emails or texts. Nonetheless, Google Voice Actions is impressive in its own right and can do a great deal. It requires certain key phrases or words to invoke particular actions. Google’s technology was developed in house and is somewhat more rigid than Siri. Siri uses Nuance speech processing technology on the front end to recognize and capture speech “utterances.” (As an aside, Nuance has its own “assistant” in the form of the app Dragon Go!) Siri’s “secret sauce” involves its capacity to understand your question in a natural speech form rather than relying on keywords or rigid protocols to initiate specific actions. Siri More “Conversational” than Google Voice Actions I’m sure that Google will quickly be working on ways to improve Voice Actions to minimize or eliminate Siri as a competitive advantage for the iPhone. You can do many (but not all) of those same things with Google Voice Actions already. Find friends/family members (relies on find my friends account).Here are the kinds of things you can do with Siri: But most iPhone 4S owners will need to play with Siri for a few days to understand how best to use it. In less than a handful of days since the first demo phones were distributed there are already hundreds (maybe even thousands) of articles discussing and evaluating Siri’s capabilities. (The conventional wisdom is that Siri is a direct threat to Google but the reality is somewhat more nuanced - so to speak.) What Can You Do with Siri? We may see Google’s query volume on the iPhone increase and not decrease accordingly. For many users Siri may become the voice front end to Google search on the iPhone 4S and beyond. It relies heavily on Google search for things it can’t do or answer. However when I rephrased the question slightly and asked “What can I do with Siri,” it sent me to a Google search result. If you say to Siri, “What can I ask you?” it returns a list of the categories of things it can do. In this piece I’m going to offer some general thoughts comparing Siri (on an iPhone 4S) with Google Voice Actions on my current phone (Android EVO) as well as some head to head examples of queries on both. (It’s also not clear how to access it.) Yesterday Danny wrote up some initial thoughts/criticisms of the Siri local search experience. When you first begin using Siri it’s not entirely clear what you can do with it. ![]()
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