Google Now is a better voice assistant than Siri and Cortana

Now that the big three tech companies, Google, Appleand Microsoft, have their own voice assistants established and present on mobiles Some people have not hesitated to measure their effectiveness And it seems that the future of searches and interaction with mobile devices goes through voice and user support, even more so with the presence of wearable or wearable technology like smart watches.That is why the consultancy Stone Temple Consulting has carried out a series of tests to compare Google Now, Siri (Apple ) and Cortana (Microsoft). Three tools that stand out for their different abilities, but can go head to head on the same scale.

The researchers who have carried out the tests have submitted to 3,000 questions to these three assistants. Questions that do not analyze in detail the characteristic functions rather they try to demonstrate their efficiency in finding correct information, understanding the question being asked beyond lexical recognition, or analyzing the quantity and quality of information The result?

According to study tests Google Now is the most capable assistantNot because of its unique proactive features or the ability to perform tasks with voice commands, but by presenting information. Thus, Google Now answers correctly and directly to the user's question in a 88 percent of cases, while Siri stays at a 53 percent and Cortana falls to 40 percent But there are other values ​​that have also been analyzed.

Regarding the amount of information, the data from the study are also clear. Google Now once again proclaimed champion in this section against Siri and Cortana And it comes to presenting almost twice as many answers and information than the assistant of Apple, and almost the triple than the wizard of Microsoft In this way, it would be the ideal tool for those users who need greater amounts of dataOf course, the notes are not perfect, because not all questions get the same treatment from these tools.

Therefore, companies still have a long way to go to improve their assistants and become an effective and attractive utility for the user to use instead of performing a search manually through the Internet browser. Of course, we must not lose sight of the other qualities that they possess and that have not been analyzed in this study because they cannot be faced on equal terms. And it is that Google Now records user activity in addition to exploring their Gmail inbox , giving you enough data to make recommendations, set reminders or learn your tastes and present suggestions before the user even searches for them.For its part, Siri offers an almost human interaction by responding with irony, humor, or seriousness to the different questions of the user, in addition to performing other terminal tasks with only one command. For her part, Cortana characteristic mix of the other two assistants, with a notebook to write down tastes, customs and interests of the user to offer related information, as well as perform tasks for him