Siri has commanding lead in users over Google Assistant, Samsung S Voice in the US
A new study of voice recognition assistants on smartphones shows Apple's Siri to be in the lead of all other comers -- but usage industry-wide appears to be dropping.
According to a new study by Verto Analytics, 44 percent of all smartphones in the U.S. have a personal assistant app. Siri has 41.4 million users per month of a total pool of users in the U.S. is 71 million.
Siri has nearly twice the user base as its nearest competitor, Samsung S Voice.
Overall, the time spent per user per month has dropped notably in a year, down across the board from 26 minutes to 12.
However, Siri's metrics are falling. Between May 2016 and May 2017, Verto claims that Siri lost 7.3 million monthly users. Samsung S Voice has dropped proportionately as well, suggesting that the decline is more from usability concerns and market trends than any specific concern about Apple's technologies.
Verto postulates that the drop in numbers is from standalone devices, like the Amazon Echo and Google Home series of products, which have seen unspecified "dramatic growth" in the last year. Apple will be joining that market with the HomePod, but with it launching with a subset of Siri specializing in music playback, it will most likely not be considered a standalone voice recognition assistant.
Samsung's next-generation voice recognition software, Bixby, has yet to see a rollout in the US. Reportedly. it has a "data problem" which has led to poor english comprehension.
According to a new study by Verto Analytics, 44 percent of all smartphones in the U.S. have a personal assistant app. Siri has 41.4 million users per month of a total pool of users in the U.S. is 71 million.
Siri has nearly twice the user base as its nearest competitor, Samsung S Voice.
Overall, the time spent per user per month has dropped notably in a year, down across the board from 26 minutes to 12.
However, Siri's metrics are falling. Between May 2016 and May 2017, Verto claims that Siri lost 7.3 million monthly users. Samsung S Voice has dropped proportionately as well, suggesting that the decline is more from usability concerns and market trends than any specific concern about Apple's technologies.
Verto postulates that the drop in numbers is from standalone devices, like the Amazon Echo and Google Home series of products, which have seen unspecified "dramatic growth" in the last year. Apple will be joining that market with the HomePod, but with it launching with a subset of Siri specializing in music playback, it will most likely not be considered a standalone voice recognition assistant.
Samsung's next-generation voice recognition software, Bixby, has yet to see a rollout in the US. Reportedly. it has a "data problem" which has led to poor english comprehension.
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Having said that, it's a shame Siri is utter dogsh!t. Everyone tries it at least once intentionally, then loads of times accifentally - usually with similar results. I've rarely found an instance when manually searching wouldn't have been at least as quick as Siri.
Impressive.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apples-vocaliq-ai-works-2016-5
Aren't the knockoffs just as easy?
It's easy for something like Alexa to understand you more clearly because it uses a finite database of commands. And can pick the closest match of what it thinks you said.
Siri is a natural language processor and as such doesn't have pre-set commands to follow - it only has a set of known subjects/domains to refer to. And since the same thing can be said in many, many different ways, Siri has to be able to understand and interpret YOUR voice. It can only do that if you use it a lot.
That said, I have actually been noticing ways that siri has been learning in the past several months. Some of the same questions that siri got wrong before, she is getting right now. Also, I've been noticing that Siri handles queries very well from multiple devices. Even if I'm trying to talk to my watch, if my iPad is nearby, the iPad will pick up the querry, as it apparently (obviously) has better microphones.
One of my main peves rn is that siri can't handle multiple querries at once. It gets a bit tiring; for example:
hey siri, turn my living room lights blue
pause
hey siri, turn my living room lights to 50 percent
pause
hey siri, turn my kitchen lights violet
pause
hey siri, turn my kitchen lights to 30 percent
This is a typical routine for me that I think could/should be made much simpler by being able to combine those commands into a single sentence.
I hope Apple is ready to make a big jump soon to make up for the HUGE lead that they seem to have mostly squandered (performance wise).
Also, I can't wait to get a Home Pod.
Uh, why don't you just set a scene in homekit for those series of commands? I don't get it. That's the whole POINT of scenes.
So what, exactly, are you implying here?
This has to be coming, though. It's just a matter of time.
But yeah, "Read the last text message" and "Send text message to ..." both work great for me. Also getting navigation has worked without a hitch. Setting timers, alarms, adding calendar appointments, and other actions which hook into the built-in apps also work well. I don't really have big expectations about being able to automagically look up information on the web aside from simple facts like, "When was <movie name> made?" and similar.
However, in my wife's car with CarPlay "Hey, Siri" works great and is faster to initiate than using the button on the steering wheel. Of course, this is also not over Bluetooth as the iPhone is connected via Lightning.
I find it hard to be sympathetic with this complaint. All I see is someone sitting on a couch asking a computer to do things for them.
But as others said, if this is something you do repeatedly, use a scene. Imagine that.... someone already solved your problem, just a different way.