When we talk about virtual voice assistants, the three names that come to mind immediately are Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant. There are several others like Microsoft’s Cortana, Xiaomi’s XiaoAI but they are not so popular outside China. Globally, Google dominates the Android smartphone segment with its data-driven assistant, Amazon’s Alexa has carved out a niche of its own in the new smart speaker segment while Apple’s Siri is for the company’s products. In case you are curious, just as we are, to know which one has the highest IQ among the three, a research report has been released which gives Google Assistant the lead in the smart voice assistant segment.
The research emerged from the US where the capabilities of the virtual voice assistants were tested using smart speakers. Of course, the smart speaker market is dominated by Amazon Echo series and Google Home series with the ApplePod firmly rotted in the third spot.
he research was carried out by Loup Ventures and how it was done is that the company prepared 800 questions, tested them separately, and scored the voice assistants based on two indicators:
1. Can the voice assistant understand this problem?”
2. Can the voice assistant answer this question accurately?” In order to cover most of the conversations in life as much as possible, the 800 questions are divided into five parts, namely:
1. Location information – for example, “Where is the nearest coffee shop?”
2. Consumption information – for example, “Help me order some paper towels online?”
3. Navigation information – for example, “How do I get to the city by bus?”
4. Information – For example, “What time does the Rockets play tonight?”
5. Command information – for example, “Remind me that there is a meeting at 2 pm this afternoon”
The final test results chart shows that Google Assistant won almost all of the categories with over 90% accuracy rate. On the other hand, Siri came second while Alexa is third.
A similar test was carried out last year with the same ranking but this current one shows all three have got some form of improvement.
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