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Review: Top 5 Android Voice Assistants
Don't have Siri? Try your luck with these.
In light of the recent recommendations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to eliminate the use of hand-held cellular devices while driving, I've been looking into voice assistants. Voice command tools are seen as possible solutions to distracted driving, so I decided to check out my Android options for the best assistant. Here are my findings: Most accurate—Vlingo Unfortunately, for an Android voice assistant, being rated the most accurate isn't saying too much. As far as commands go, Vlingo understood what I was saying, especially Google queries and name recognition. It's also the easiest to update either Facebook or Twitter, as there are less buttons to press to do so (which is the whole point of a voice assistant, I …
Eileen Graham
6:21 pm on Monday, January 2, 2012
Update: Iris (Alpha) launched an updated version of the app on New Year's day, adding ChaCha.com as one of its information sources (Iris now draws its answers from DuckDuckGo, Kiip, Bing, Yahoo! Finance, YouTube, Twitter and World Weather Online as well as ChaCha). I did not find the addition of ChaCha to mean a great deal. If anything, more song lyrics came up as "answers" to my queries. She … more ›