Tellme vs Siri follow up

500,000 views, awesome!

Just wanted to respond to some of the comments in the video.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Siri
• Tellme

[TazD579]

The reason he gave TellMe commands that he knew it wouldn't support was to prove the point that TellMe is NOT in the same league as Siri. It is more natural to ask someone "What is the time in Perth?" than COMMAND them "Time: Perth, Australia." More natural to say "Remind me when I leave work to get milk at the store." than "Reminder: 5pm Milk." (In that case, what if you don't leave work AT 5? I have a habit of dismissing early reminders and then forgetting about them.) Apples and Elephants.

[rth314]

My personal experience is that TellMe has much better voice recognition than Siri. (I have an American accent.) I've also found with my 6-year-old kids that Siri has never understood a word they have told it. TellMe gets it right most of the time. Siri also has a problem understanding my wife, and unfortunately it is her iPhone.

[rizkisfaisal]

this is what happened when IDIOTS are trying to "compare" things. but they don't know anything about it.

[masrobato93]

the only thing ive noticed siri is useful for is to ask it ridiculous questions or statements and see what the geniuses at apple decided they wanted siri to say. otherwise, there rly isnt a big difference between tellme and siri. just putting a copper plating over nickel.

[rth314]

You didn't balance your video with useful commands that TellMe can handle that Siri cannot. For instance, if you would have said "Start Netflix", the WP would have started Netflix. Siri: "Searching the web for Netflix." Say "Call Voicemail", WP will call your VoiceMail rather than saying "I can't help you with voicemail". That would have provided balance to your video to show that both services have work to do. Launching apps with voice commands is probably the most basic of voice features.

[97jazzgeek]

Nice idea of comparing the two technologies, but you really lost credibility by how you handled it and just exposed more of your bias in the follow up. All you really wanted to do was flame Microsoft and give Apple fanboys something to smile about. OK, you did that. But some of us just like just saying to the phone "find this...or open that..." It cuts through the crap. I really don't want to say much more to a ****** machine than that. Tell Me is an app not a person. I am OK with that.

[FlyingD]

LOL, so you took a worst case scenario and then bitched that it wasn't the same. Gotcha.

[ceomoneymaker]

Well this is very Microsoft too do this... They have always taken shots at apple in this fashion... If you remember when a reporter asked Bill Gates about the first iMac. He said will I can put a coat of blue paint on my PC or something along those lines... So this is nothing new just the same song and dance... Users of these products ans services no the real deal...

[XxTangoDownxX1]

Woo Aussie