Saturday, March 17, 2012
Does Android’s Voice Actions Compare to Siri? (Highlights Only)
This video is an attempt to debunk some of the rumors, unfair comparison’s and myths about Android’s voice command capabilities: I don’t own the iPhone 4S, so unfortunately I can’t do a side-by-side comparison. But I have read a lot about it and seen many of its features in videos as well. So I feel quite familiar with its capabilities. Overall I am impressed with Siri, so much so that I believe it is the best in the market in regards to speech to text communication. But the question is how much better is it? There have been numerous videos made comparing Siri’s capabilities vs. Android’s, but none of them that I have seen have been fair comparisons. Most of them seem to confuse “Voice Actions” applications with the common Voice Search built into most Android devices. The Voice Search app in Android is for just that: Voice Search and will do nothing else but search Google with your voice. To compare Siri with this would be ludicrous. Here’s a very popular video that has been floating around that does just that: www.youtube.com Notice that this video not only uses the Voice Search app in Android designed only for Google voice searches, but it also focuses on a lot of the silly Easter egg nuances built into Siri, as if Android would have those same Easter eggs built into its platform. Also note that thousands of people have already seen this video as well as other similar versions making the same unfair comparisons. I am sure that many seeing these videos will accept it as …
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Amazon is now in the Android apps business with their newly released Appstore. Apple has already sued them over the name (they have their own “App Store”). The new store will offer another avenue through which one can buy and install apps on their Android-powered device. Unfortunately, to use it you have to be able to side-load apps — which many AT&T phones cannot do. Additionally, unlike apps in the Android Market, apps that you download through the Amazon Appstore don’t let you know what security permissions the app requires until after you have downloaded the app, at which point the Android OS presents you with the permissions the app is requesting before you install it. While this is essentially the same information as you’d get from apps in the Market, you have to spend the time (and potentially the money in bandwidth fees) before you get to a decision that may result in your choosing not to install the app. See more at JoeTheAndroidGuy.com
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