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Which assistant understands you best?

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  • 16-05-2017 10:19pm
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    ED E
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    Video on Wired thats relevant to this sub.

    https://www.wired.com/2017/05/ai-assistants-accented-english/
    We put the three top assistants to the test. We asked friends of ours from Italy, Ireland, Scotland, England, Japan, Germany, and Australia to ask an iPhone with Siri, a Google Home, and an Amazon Echo various questions. Mostly, the assistants did a pretty good job. Mostly
    Google wins


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    Dave0JV
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    I've not got a particularly strong Irish accent and I've found Google's​ voice recognition to be really good, Amazon's is not quite as good, Siri is ok but makes regularly mistakes in my experience.


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    bk
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    I'd put them in this order, for me:

    - Google
    - Siri
    - Alexa


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    Stoner
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    +1


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    pxdf9i5cmoavkz
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    What do the ladies using Google Home think?

    I have a pretty high success rate with ours, I cannot remember the last time it got an instruction incorrect but for my wife it's a daily occurrence. Does Google Home struggle to understand the female voice?

    I must also point out that my wife thinks Google Home is similar to the "Computer" in Star Trek etc..; This amazing flawless voice recognition system.

    She sings to it sometimes and gets angry when it doesn't understand her so her tone changes as a result which makes it even worse :p


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    Metric Tensor
    Registered Users Posts: 3,724 ✭✭✭Metric Tensor


    Open the pod bay doors please Hal.


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    bk
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    Sam Abundant Silencer wrote: »
    What do the ladies using Google Home think?

    Funnily my better half complains about all the ladies I've in my home! :D


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    Black_Knight
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    Sam Abundant Silencer wrote: »
    What do the ladies using Google Home think?

    Something similar here, though my wife either speaks like she's talking to a foreigner (slow and annunciated - somehow this doesn't work well), or giddy/singing to it. I find when I just speak normally it understands me 9/10 times.

    Biggest repeat offenders are:
    "Hey Google, Turn off the hall light." I think I merge the 2 words (all the L's) into one.
    "Hey Google, Set the volume to 3". Twice i've set alarms for 3 and 4am. Silly Google.

    I did have a great conversation yesterday though. I asked about Supervalu, it found 3 or so within an 8 mile radius. I replied "Ok Google, the first one". It gave me more details on the first supervalu, to which I replied "ok Google, what time does it close". Unfortunately Supervalu was already closed. :(


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