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Google has given its iOS app a new search feature that squares it directly at Apple's Siri. Google even calls it the "most advanced voice search" on iOS. Google gives a number of examples of how the service can be used.YouTube: videoThe service feels notably faster than Siri, recognizing words as they are spoken rather than all at once in the end. It even works on devices that aren't supported by Siri. One commenter on Hacker News confirms that the voice search works on his iPhone 4.
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Article Link: Google Search App Brings Siri-Competitor to iPhone
Again, it probably depends on where you live. For me, Yelp produces results that are laughably incomplete, inaccurate and/or outdated. Maybe Yelp is very US-centric or something. Apple seems to go for those partners. They can't give me local weather, they can't give me local movie listings and so on. Google does all of it, even if you live in some puny town in Denmark or Poland. Apple basically stops caring once they've got the capital of each country covered.I can't speak to the others, but I actually quite like Yelp!
Nope, but since Apple is at war with them and have thrown them out of everything except web search in Safari, I don't consider them one of Apple's partners.Do you consider Google to be a crap 3rd party service?
They can do whatever they feel like, as long as they make up their minds: Go all-in and be the best, or get out.I just think if Apple focused more on what they do well, and less on competing with Google at what it does well, they'd be very successful, and have compelling enough reasons for people to buy their hardware, which as most agree, is where they make most of their profits.
I can see Siri becoming mounds better in the future, now that Cue is on the job. At least I hope!
Nice, blows Siri out of the water. Apple seriously needs to step its game up. Google now has better voice support, better maps support, and a better mobile OS.
Well it's clearly happening locally, in the app. Apple for some reason needs to bounce the recorded voice data against their servers, resulting in Siri sometimes taking her sweet time.Holy crap - anyone just amazed how fast the recognition is?
Apple take note
One wonders who has the real competitive advantage?online queries seems to be miles ahead of Siri at the moment, which isn't surprising given they have the worlds largest database of information at their disposal.
The speed in recognizing your speech as you speak it is impressive but the way it does it hinders the results.
It uses commonly searched terms to complete your request as you're still talking but because of this, it will ignore what you actually said in favor of a similarly sounding term.
Try this:
Speak: "Show me pictures of iPad mini"
Result: it searches for pictures of iPod mini.
I've tested this with multiple people with me here now and it always replaces iPad mini with iPod mini.
iPad and iPod may be one letter away from being the same word but they sound very different. No matter now much you stress the A in iPAAAD it will change it to iPod.
Nonetheless, Apple now has a target to beat. Instant speech recognition results is how SIRI should always have been.
I have an iPhone 4 so this is nice. Gave it a a few test tries and it works very well.
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I don't seem to get voice feedback. Just goes straight to a google page. Is this a UK thing?
Did you even try the app or did you just write a standard rant that doesn't apply here? Apple's voice recognition does not have a huge head start, this app demonstrates that they're already lagging behind, just like they did with the miserable voice recognition they had before Siri, "Voice Control" which never got a word right.No way that this is as good as SIRI.
All that Google ever does is to fire up the copy machines and imitate everything that Apple does first. But Apple has a huge head start and Google will NEVER catch up.
Well at least they don't store recordings of my voice input, unlike Apple: http://mashable.com/2012/06/28/apple-siri-stores-voiceprint/Google does not respect its users privacy. Stay away unless you want every secret aspect of our life to be sold to the highest bidder.
Is it noting more than google search? instead of typing it uses voice recognition?