TechPhonesRevealed: the best digital assistant on your phone and smart speakerSome smart assistants are smarter than others. But which one’s best?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesRevealed: the best digital assistant on your phone and smart speakerSome smart assistants are smarter than others. But which one’s best?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Some smart assistants are smarter than others. But which one’s best?
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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Digital assistants have come a long way in a very short time, and many of us depend on them to control our smart homes, to set reminders and in the case of my kids, to cheat on their homework. But which one’s best? There’s only one way to find out – and that’s to ask a YouTuber.
The popular YouTuberMKBHDhas put all of the big-name voice assistants to the test, and it turns out there’s a big difference between the best and the worst. So if you’re thinking of buying one of thebest phonesorbest smart speakersin theBoxing Day sales, you might want to check out the video first.
Who’s the smartest assistant of them all?
Overall, Google Assistant got the best assistant award – which isn’t really surprising when you consider Google’s huge resources and the massive amounts of our personal data it’s been crunching for years now; that’s also why despiteApple’s best efforts,Google Mapsis better than Apple Maps.
And the worst? That’sAmazon’sAlexa, and not just because unlike the other assistants it isn’t native to any phone platform. The tests found that Alexa wasn’t as good at finding facts, didn’t integrate well with other apps and used comparatively poor conversational models.
Personally I’d have given Siri a low rating too. It’s noticeably slower to respond than its rivals, it often mishears me in hilarious and annoying ways and it’s still fairly limited in its ability to answer questions – something I, and my kids, have found Alexa to be much better at.
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