Smartphones are becoming more smarter day by day, one such example is the constantly improving personal voice assistant or virtual assistant.
Till now Android's Google Now and Apple's Siri were pretty much dominating the virtual assistant game, but Microsoft is catching up with Cortana on Windows Phone 8.1 which is in Beta stage as of now. Cortana is named after the artificial intelligence system in Microsoft's Halo game series.
Apple's Siri which had a lot of issues and felt sort of inferior to Google Now has been improved a lot in the new iOS 8 and covers many of it's drawbacks from the previous version. Google Now with all new features seems more better than ever.
Apple's Siri is more fun to use mainly because of it's comeback answers and recommendations. Whereas Google Now almost nails it when it comes to providing information even before you ask, to an extent Google Now clearly does the job of a personal assistant better.
Cortana seems like it has inherited the elements of both Siri and Google now. Though this does not means that Cortana is better than the two. Despite some distinguishing features like identifying the song's name which is absent in both Siri and Google Now, it still feels inferior to its counterparts when it comes to providing needed information and taking commands.
Although we should not forget that its still in beta stage and is constantly improving and being upgraded.
In a series of videos, Phonebuff tested each virtual assistant individually and recorded their response on a set of 50 commands.
Take a look at the videos and find out how each of them responds to these commands.
Till now Android's Google Now and Apple's Siri were pretty much dominating the virtual assistant game, but Microsoft is catching up with Cortana on Windows Phone 8.1 which is in Beta stage as of now. Cortana is named after the artificial intelligence system in Microsoft's Halo game series.
Apple's Siri which had a lot of issues and felt sort of inferior to Google Now has been improved a lot in the new iOS 8 and covers many of it's drawbacks from the previous version. Google Now with all new features seems more better than ever.
Apple's Siri is more fun to use mainly because of it's comeback answers and recommendations. Whereas Google Now almost nails it when it comes to providing information even before you ask, to an extent Google Now clearly does the job of a personal assistant better.
Cortana seems like it has inherited the elements of both Siri and Google now. Though this does not means that Cortana is better than the two. Despite some distinguishing features like identifying the song's name which is absent in both Siri and Google Now, it still feels inferior to its counterparts when it comes to providing needed information and taking commands.
Although we should not forget that its still in beta stage and is constantly improving and being upgraded.
In a series of videos, Phonebuff tested each virtual assistant individually and recorded their response on a set of 50 commands.
Take a look at the videos and find out how each of them responds to these commands.
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