A voice assistant can act as your eyes when you’re using your phone. Ask it questions. Tell it to do things. It’s your own personal assistant. Voice assistants are evolving quickly, but they’re still in the early stages of development.
Voice technology is evolving quickly. That means new services and features for voice assistants like Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Google Assistant, and Samsung Bixby are constantly under development.
The best assistants streamline your relationship with technology.
So, let’s check out which voice assistant which makes your life the easiest by choosing a winner on each of the categories which a voice assistant should be capable of.
Interacting with a voice assistant shouldn’t feel like placing an order at a drive-through. Voice assistants need to think of these interactions as organic conversations that recognize follow-ups and can maintain the pace of a real-life chat.
Simple questions
When coming to simple questions all of the voice assistants can do pretty much good like answering Tell me about yourself or What’s the weather today? This is so basic and surely I wouldn’t even put them to the test if they can’t answer even these simple questions.
- Find pizza restaurants nearby
- How’s the traffic today?
- Who won the Champions League game?
- What’s 2+5*20
- How many inches in one foot?
- Play some Indian music
Complex questions
Let’s move on to some complex questions so that we can really know what these voice assistants are capable of like what’s the maximum temperature today? or What’s the next Marvel movie this year? These are also pretty much handled very well. So we pushed them further with the following questions
- How much is 8 times 23 divided by 4?
- Split a bill of 87 dollars among 4 people
- Sing Me a Song
- Tell a joke
- How do you remove wine stains from a rug?
Here Google Assistant is the clear winner! It’s your own personal Google, always ready to help whenever you need it.
Device Control
Now let’s check which assistant is more capable of device control with questions like Turn on wifi or Call Mom. Google Assistant is specifically designed for device control and hence we see that it can do almost anything you say but Alexa is left far behind while Bixby and Siri do most of the things right.
- Turn on flashlight
- Increase the volume
- Decrease the brightness
- Take a photo
- How much battery do I have left?
Yet again the award goes to Google Assistant!
Continued Conversation
Continued Conversation makes the interaction with a voice assistant a lot better as it can remember the previous question and relate it to the next question asked. For example, Say What’s the weather like today? After your Assistant shares today’s weather, you can ask And what about tomorrow? and get the forecast for tomorrow.
Fun Questions
It’s the first thing anyone does when they get a voice assistant, ask it some funny questions like Are you married? or Do You Like Star Trek or Star Wars? This is fun and hence each assistant answers it differently so it’s always a mood brightener to ask these questions.
- Self-Destruct
- I’m Naked
- What’s the Best Pickup Line?
- What Am I Thinking?
- Give me a hug
- Will you be my girlfriend?
Voice Assistant – The Winner
Even though Siri is the most widely used voice assistant, Bixby can go one step higher and manage your bad habits and Alexa is the widely used personal assistant at home, here Google Assistant is a clear winner.
Actually, there are other great voice assistant applications, say, Lyra, Robin, Cortana, Alice, and more. You can try them too and experience different things.
