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Here's a question: how well will the voice recognition features of the next version of Android compare with the next version of iOS? And what proportion of Andr

Here's a question: how well will the voice recognition features of the next version of Android compare with the next version of iOS? And what proportion of Android users will be able to upgrade to it? Releasing a slightly superior clone of a feature in a rival product over six months after the first product shipped isn't enormously impressive, although it is more impressive than shipping an inferior clone of a product two years after the first product shipped, so that's definitely progress.

justinschuh 14y ago
Android has had voice actions and voice search since 2.2--over a year before the Siri beta was even announced. Speech control has been a rapidly evolving and increasingly robust set of features in Android, but for some reason people are claiming Apple moved first. Honestly, I'm amazed at the extent to which marketing can completely overwrite people's recollection of objective reality.
pvidler 14y ago
In fairness, the video seems to be comparing exactly this -- the sports questions seem to show that he's using iOS 6. Speed and voice quality are irrelevant to me, but I do really like what he was able to do with the image search on android. It wasn't clear if the android version integrates with wolfram alpha, or any of siri's other sources.