Apple is constantly improving the technology of voice assistant Siri. The operating system iOS 7 personal assistant began to better understand voice calls and more accurate in their responses, according to analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, who made a comparison function with Google Now. Nevertheless, in most cases, the development of Google does a better job with the answers to these questions.
"According to the survey, Apple continues to increase the number of queries that are able to respond Siri, without resorting to third-party services - says Munster. - This is important because when Siri does not know the answer, it directs the user to the search. But in this case for the person would be faster to go directly to the search service is not running voice assistant. "
As you know, Apple is trying to get rid of rival technologies in their products. In Cupertino removed from the operating system built-in YouTube app and mapping service Google Maps, replacing the latter on its own service. In Apple iOS 7 liquidation continued development Google. Standard search engine in voice assistant Siri appointed Microsoft Bing, and to respond to other questions help Wikipedia and WolframAlpha. In addition, users are prompted to select certain countries not to search for Google, and other services - for example, "Yandex" or Yahoo.
Comparing voice technologies, the analyst noted that the function of Google Now copes with general issues in 84% of cases, whereas the figure in Siri - 82%. Function Apple progress since the end of 2012 was 7% for Google Now - 23%.