A good comprehensive list of questions you can ask Google Search with voice-back replies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkhp6BwnGo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkhp6BwnGo
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Enhanced JellyBean Google Voice Search (40+ Questions that will blow you away)
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Any reason you couldn't have added it to the thread already talking about Google Voice?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1396890/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1396890/
I saw this video the other day. It is a really good show of what Google Now can do. Excellent stuff. I see myself using it a lot to ask movie related questions.
Yeah. Right now I'm testing the movies / pop culture type questions. Seems like it can't do voice-back replies for upcoming movies.
What's great is that even though some do not have cutesy cards (as of yet, google will be adding hundreds, if not thousands more) you can always check the actual google web results, which are almost always accurate.
You'd be surprised.
I'm just going to replicate the exact questions from the original video. She does ping WolframAlpha for some of them, which is when she says "I found this for you" and I don't know of a way to stop it.
So you are saying Apple will adopt Android for the iPhone in 2012?
I was hoping BB10 would take over iOS.Google Now seems to be a front-end to Google Search dictation. Siri gives the exact same answers if I add the word "Google" in front of my question.
Siri isn't good because it can process static commands, we've had things like that for years, Siri is good because of the artificial intelligence it uses. The problem with this new Google Now search, is it's still just dictating to a Google text search, which can be replicated by anyone. I used Siri to do a Google Search for each one of the examples posted above, and got the exact same result.
I'm not sure how these tests would go, because I'm not familiar with the new Google Now, but how about saying things like:
"Remind me when I get to my Dad's to call Mom and let her know I arrived."
"When is my next meeting with Scott?"
"Am I free tomorrow at 11am?"
"Wake me up in 8 hours"
"Move my 3pm meeting to 4:30"
"Reschedule my appointment with Dr. manning to next Monday at 9am"
"Tell my girlfriend I'll be 10 minutes late"
"Remind me when I leave, to pick up milk"
"Did my girlfriend send me an email today?"
"Show me my last email from my Mom"
"Is my son still at school?"
It's Siri's intelligence that sets it apart from just dictating the words into a Google search.
Siri isn't good because it can process static commands, we've had things like that for years, Siri is good because of the artificial intelligence it uses. The problem with this new Google Now search, is it's still just dictating to a Google text search, which can be replicated by anyone. I used Siri to do a Google Search for each one of the examples posted above, and got the exact same result.
I'm not sure how these tests would go, because I'm not familiar with the new Google Now, but how about saying things like:
"Remind me when I get to my Dad's to call Mom and let her know I arrived."
"When is my next meeting with Scott?"
"Am I free tomorrow at 11am?"
"Wake me up in 8 hours"
"Move my 3pm meeting to 4:30"
"Reschedule my appointment with Dr. manning to next Monday at 9am"
"Tell my girlfriend I'll be 10 minutes late"
"Remind me when I leave, to pick up milk"
"Did my girlfriend send me an email today?"
"Show me my last email from my Mom"
"Is my son still at school?"
It's Siri's intelligence that sets it apart from just dictating the words into a Google search.
The 'broken record' in me agrees wholeheartedly. The Android-related threads are so frequent now that some are redundant.
The answer to everything and life is 42?
At least Siri would have thrown out a slick or logical remark.
At least Siri would have thrown out a slick or logical remark.
The answer to everything and life is 42?
At least Siri would have thrown out a slick or logical remark.
What's wrong with 42?
The answer to everything and life is 42?
At least Siri would have thrown out a slick or logical remark.
Yes, so that makes siri better. Productivity > Gimmick.
The answer to everything and life is 42?
At least Siri would have thrown out a slick or logical remark.
This comes from the book "A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", this book has vastly influenced pop culture for over 30 years. I wont spoil any more of the book, but the whole concept around this question is quite funny. Watch the movie (which is way to short) to get the summary lol
Same thing that's wrong with 43.
I have the 4. Don't have Siri or Google voice and I'm not partial towards eithier. I just made a comment. Stop being so freaking defensive for no reason.
Thanks for the explaination. I thought Google voice just threw out a random number. That's one of the few movies I haven't watched.
Questions like these show off AI? Several of them are nothing more than location based reminders, which you could do on Android before iOS.
Several of them are calendar events. I don't have an Android powered device right now, but I bet the SGS3 is capable of answering those questions for you. As well as checking an email from a specific person, and sending a text to a specific person.
The only thing I didn't cover, was your question "is my son still at school". So I asked Siri. "What is your child's name?" Me: "Adam" (I don't have a son, so I just picked someone). Siri: Which Adam? Me: Adam xxxx. Siri: Sorry, Timothy, I can't add the relationship for this account. I don't have an address for Adam xxxx. Me: Add an address. Siri. If you like I can search the web for 'Add an address'.
Pretty impressive AI, right? She followed along the conversation perfectly, right? That's a freaking joke.
And still not sure how you would even get to the point where Siri could answer that question anyway. I guess maybe just have the times your son is in school on your calendar. But then that's not really dynamic...she's just checking your calendar. Something just hit me, it could be that your son also has an iPhone, and she pings Find my Friends to see where your sons iPhone is. Something like this is probably possible on Android using Latitude, but I don't know for sure.
*Gave it a test, and yeah, that did work with Find My Friends. So one thing it has. And it may be something that can be accomplished with Android...maybe someone can confirm that.
Hey, if the S3 can answer those questions, I'd be just as impressed as I was when I did it with Siri. From what I've seen, however, nothing else on any platform can.
Calling Siri's AI a joke, because it didn't understand the 4th thing you said in a line of conversation, when the service this thread was created to praise would have shut you down immediately, is a bit silly
Pretty cool, but not impressive at all. All it's doing is translating speech and doing a google search. Siri does this. I'm not saying one is better then the other, but using the video to show android (eating apple at end of video) as the dominate force over iOS is silly. Android has come a heck of a long way, but I wouldn't count apple out just yet. Let's wait until fall to make an apples to apples comparison (pun intended). If u think Apple doesn't know exactly what they are up against, or what they need to do, ur crazy.