Apple took the lead in launching virtual assistant Siri in iPhone 4S in 2011. It took a few years for other tech makers to catch up. Amazon's Alexa came out in 2014 and Google Assistant appeared in 2016. But now Google and Amazon have come out, not only Product features more than Siri, play a more important role in the terminal market, and the growing gap with Apple.
Google previously targeted Google Assistant as the heart of all new products at product launches, including wireless headsets, smartphones, smartphones and laptops, said Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a natural and seamless manner Interact with your computer, such as Google Home, to recognize different people's voices.
Google and Amazon are significantly harder than Apple to open up outsiders with their virtual assistants, and outside developers have now created more than 25,000 technologies for Alexa that Alexa can integrate into dozens of cars, TVs and appliances. Built into Sony products, Google also released tools to encourage developers to create apps and games for Google Home in early October, compared with Apple's restrictions on developers' development of Siri Apps.
As Apple's first smart home stereo iPodP will not be available until December, when Google and Amazon have already sold tens of millions of smartphones, and although HomePod can use Siri, Apple will position it as the iPod's successor Plastic home music products, rather than multi-functional home assistant.
Apple may launch Siri's new features for HomePod in November, and recently Siri has made some improvements, including greater voice and translation capabilities. In contrast, Google Assistant not only has been upgraded to sound and can be used with Pixel Buds wireless Headphones, instant interpretation service with more than 40 languages.In addition, Alexa and Google Assistant can handle the image, Amazon has launched the Echo Look named Alexa device, equipped with a camera for users to take advice.
Google has researched image recognition for years, using the stylus pen to circle the faces of musicians on webpages on the newly published Pixelbook, Google Assistant can recognize and provide links to their work. On Pixel phones, Google Lens Allow Google Assistant to take a photo or a file on a cellphone lens to identify the email address or phone number, and can be used to write or make a call directly, while also showing artwork, landmarks, movies, or books Information.
In fact, the current virtual assistant function is not perfect enough to create AI software to understand the content of the dialogue is still a major challenge, and the other challenge is to make AI knowledge map (knowledge graph) database form, the world There's a much broader understanding of things and their connections, and Google seems to have more advantages in this regard.
The most commonly used feature of smart audio users is to answer common questions. According to the research, if the general assistant is asked about the virtual assistant, the correct answer rate of Google is 91%, Alexa is 87% and Siri is 62%. Recently, Apple came out with the intention Develop a knowledge map for Siri and are hiring related engineers.