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Siri Android Clones Are Laughable At Best
- ifyouwillit 15y agoagree with this completely. i've tried a few and none of them work very well. need something that allows plain language and doesn't require special 'languages' or commands.
- Pewpewarrows 15y agoIs this what passes for journalism on TechCrunch these days? Three short paragraphs that are backed with maybe 30 seconds of Internet research? For those who actually care, Android has had great "Siri"-like apps outside of the built-in voice system for a while now, with Vlingo [1] leading the pack. Asking pretty much any respected Android mailing list / channel / forum will give you Vlingo as the de-facto Siri for Android that we and iOS users have had before Siri even existed. With one exception: the two-way conversation that Siri has right now. That's the nice feature that I hadn't seen before the Siri-buzzword-madness started. [1] https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vlingo.client https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vlingo.client
- philbarr 15y agoI think they need to spend more time getting voice recognition software, on all devices including iPhone and Android, to recognise speech across many more regional dialects. I'm from the north west of England and didn't think my "lancyshire" accent was that bad, but I can hardly get Android to recognise anything I say. Maybe it gets it right one in twenty times at best, which makes it unusable. My wife (an Apple fan-girl) has more luck with Siri, but it still gets it wrong enough that you have to stare intently at the screen just to make sure it's not going to phone your Mum by accident. People with strong accents all over the UK probably find these things unusable. I wonder, is it the same in the US? Do these things only ever get tested in San Francisco? (probably a little unfair, but still...)