The Voice-Off: Android vs. Siri
By DAVID POGUE, NYT
“Your review was the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. It strains me to avoid profanity in describing how stupid you sound.”
That’s the kind of e-mail that brightened my day after I reviewed Google’s Moto X phone two weeks ago.
My correspondents seemed especially unhappy with one sentence in that review: “Android’s voice commands are still no match for Siri.”
Man, I really was stupid. Who’d be dumb enough to take sides in a religious war? I’d have been better off writing, “Conservatives are better-looking than liberals” or “Pro-life people are worse drivers than pro-choice.”
But the superiority of cellphone speech-recognition technology is not an idle question. Once touch screens became the future of phones, voice recognition became desperately important. Without physical keys or buttons, entering text and manipulating software controls are fussy, multistep procedures.
(More here.)
“Your review was the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. It strains me to avoid profanity in describing how stupid you sound.”
That’s the kind of e-mail that brightened my day after I reviewed Google’s Moto X phone two weeks ago.
My correspondents seemed especially unhappy with one sentence in that review: “Android’s voice commands are still no match for Siri.”
Man, I really was stupid. Who’d be dumb enough to take sides in a religious war? I’d have been better off writing, “Conservatives are better-looking than liberals” or “Pro-life people are worse drivers than pro-choice.”
But the superiority of cellphone speech-recognition technology is not an idle question. Once touch screens became the future of phones, voice recognition became desperately important. Without physical keys or buttons, entering text and manipulating software controls are fussy, multistep procedures.
(More here.)
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