“As with all new technologies developed by or associated with Apple, competitors are stumbling over one another to dismiss Siri,” Chris Rawson writes for TUAW. “Google has already played the ‘yawn’ card, and now Microsoft’s Craig Mundie has joined the fray during an interview with Forbes.”
“Can you really just pick up one of these Windows phones and use it right out of the box in the way Mundie claims?,” Rawson asks. “Not if the results of a video comparing TellMe versus Siri are any indication.”
Rawson writes, “Using Siri and TellMe simultaneously, an Australian user tries to create a meeting, send a text, check the time in Perth, and play songs by a certain artist. Siri doesn’t miss a beat, while TellMe fails every time, often with hilarious results.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Rik Tosun” for the heads up.]
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Siri actually interacts with you a bit. After watching the video (and LMAO over the teen anal), I asked for the time in Paris. She came back with: “It’s 10:41pm in Paris, France. Something going on there I should know about?”
Voice commands are no big deal. Siri is a whole different game.
Just tried that, Siri just gave me the time.
Probably one of those Random answers, like the Good morning when it’s night.
Still trying to get siri to give me the smartass response to the temperature. (says it’s always room temperature, then gives you the current temp outside) now matter how many times, or how i ask.. never says it to me
http://thatsirisays.com/how-many-degrees-it-now/
1 for Skrillex
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. . ” competitors are stumbling over one another to dismiss Siri,” Chris Rawson writes for TUAW. “Google has already played the ‘yawn’ card, and now Microsoft’s Craig Mundie has joined the fray during an interview with Forbes.” . . .
Meanwhile behind the scenes they are most likely making an intense effort to copy Apple’s success yet again, and meanwhile Apple move on leaving its competitors with an inferior imitation of Apple’s past product.
The problem with Google’s Voice or Microsoft’s TellMe, I venture, is that both companies will not take the effort to make their counterpart to Siri to be as capable and versatile because it will only kill the geese that lay their ads’ golden eggs. Google’s only game in town is its one-trick pony ads business, and Microsoft has lost billions to upset Google’s applecart. You will notice in the demonstration that TellMe always bring you to the Bing search interface.
Here Apple has a huge advantage over Google or Microsoft: It has no huge investment in a soon-to-be-outdated search interface.
Another interesting observation is that Siri is open; Google’s and Microsoft’s voice-search interface are closed and proprietary. Siri will use any database or search engine. So Apple has nothing to lose or protect.
Yah, they’ve “had” speech recognition for years….
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1123221217782777472
i believe thats the same voice recognition they use today on the “smartphones”
worked the same anyway. 😉
What amazes me is I lost my voce due to a cold and Siri could still understand me even though I could barley get the syllables out.
Siri understood me better than my wife! 😉
It seems if you use WP7, you are in danger of getting charged with being a pedophile.
I’m still laughing at the “teen anal” bit. 😀
As I posted at the video and its follow up:
Microsoft actually had an even bigger head start via Sync in Ford vehicles starting in 2007. IOW: MegaloManiaSoft sat around twiddling their thumbs for 4 years while Apple successfully sought, bought and an implemented a far superior system.
Please Microsoft fanbois, whine about that.
Not in any way defending MS here, but this video is not Siri vs TellMe, it is Nuance vs TellMe (or which ever voice reco MS is using on the backend). Siri is natural language processing, Nuance performs the speech to text component for Siri/Apple. TellMe was producing absolute junk and Siri would not know what to do with that text either.
My guess: MS/Tellme either do not have an Aussie accented English model or the phone was not configured to use it.
Regardless, the magic of Siri is decoding the text that is spit out by the voice recognizer, again which is being done off-board by Nuance.