Siri, Alexa, or Google? The best voice assistant revealed
Surely many readers once had the idea of which of the existing voice assistants is the best. Bespoken, an artificial intelligence research company, decided to answer this question. The competition was attended by Google Assistant, Alexa from Amazon and Siri from Apple, who received questions of varying difficulty. They were asked using a special robot that generates human speech to eliminate the influence of the human factor.
Interestingly, the percentage of questions to which the correct answer was given was almost the same; regardless of whether it was a difficult question or a simple one. From this, it is concluded that the wrong answers are connected not with the fact that the assistants did not understand the question, but with the banal ignorance of the correct answers. The clear leader of the competition was the Google Assistant, who answered correctly in 70-76% of cases. Then we have Alexa with 55-56%, and Siri
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