Siri vs. Google Voice Search for iOS: Video Shoot-Out

[pinkoos]

Follow-up on this post:

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-1452869

Here's a video shoot-out:

http://vimeo.com/52497584#

[hal]

the google search is really fast and very nice, BUT it's not connected to the main iphone button. I have to launch the app first - not so with siri.

I'm glad to have both options...

[rgG]

Since Siri doesn't work on either my iPhone 4 or my 1st generation iPad, I think Google search is great. That said, I generally don't like talking to my phone or iPad. I only like talking to a real person on my devices, not the device itself. I can see how it can be handy, but I also think people look sort of silly talking to their phones. There is enough noise pollution as it is with everyone talking on their cells all the time anyway.

[jardster]

Asked both who was playing in the MNF game tonight.... Google came up with a web search which I'd have to click through. Siri told me it was the Saints playing the Eagles at 8:30 and what channel it is on. I'll use both.

[RAMd®d]

but I also think people look sort of silly talking to their phones.

When I'm wearing BT gear, I hold my wrist up to my mouth to talk and scan my surroundings constantly. Ifanybody thinks I look silly, they keep it to them selves and walk away quickly.


I'll use both.

Siri seems to have been optimized for sports, but I think there's room for both for the time being.

I've still got an iPad 1 and Goole Maps sometimes gives me better info than Apple Maps, such as of two Chick-Fil-As are nearby, but one is permanently closed. Apple Maps didn't tell me that, but has been used for turn-by-turn twice for navigation, with 100% success.

So if Google gave us an iOS Maps app, I'd use it as well as Apple's. I wouldn't care if Google continued to deprive us of turn-by-turn.

[Grateful11]

Myself and another put Evi and Siri on heads to heads challenge the other day when she wanted to know what
Martial Law meant Evi got right on the second try, she never got Siri to answer it correctly. Maybe it was her
voice not really sure. Evi and Siri changed Law to Wall on the first tries.

[graylocks]

rgG wrote:
That said, I generally don't like talking to my phone or iPad. I only like talking to a real person on my devices, not the device itself. I can see how it can be handy, but I also think people look sort of silly talking to their phones.

i feel less silly speaking my request to the device than laboriously hunting and pecking it all out on a handheld. you can also speak requests on google on a computer but i don't there as i can quickly touch type on the regular keyboard.

[rgG]

graylocks wrote:
[quote=rgG]
That said, I generally don't like talking to my phone or iPad. I only like talking to a real person on my devices, not the device itself. I can see how it can be handy, but I also think people look sort of silly talking to their phones.

i feel less silly speaking my request to the device than laboriously hunting and pecking it all out on a handheld. you can also speak requests on google on a computer but i don't there as i can quickly touch type on the regular keyboard.
Oh, I agree that it can be handy, but I just feel a little funny talking to my phone in public.
I think it would work well say, in the car.

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pinkoos wrote: Here's a video shoot-out:

http://vimeo.com/52497584#

Silly, and here's why:

http://counternotions.com/2012/11/12/siri-future/