The personal assistant app from Apple, Siri, gets it wrong around 38% of the time, reports CNET. Analyst Piper Jaffray tested the app on a busy street in Minneapolis and it performed only 62% of searches correctly. Strangely the voice assistant from Google was right 86% of the time.
iPhone 4S Siri vs Google Voice search app
Siri should be able to work regardless of the fact of you being drunk, sober, shrieking if you are stressed or you have a regional accent. So a test was conducted putting Siri against the Google voice search app and the results were likened to Adele being put in a cage match with Chuck Norris.
The test was conducted on a busy Minneapolis street and as Fortune reports with all the noise and distractions, the app managed to get 62% of searches right. When the same questions were asked in a quiet room, this was boosted to 68%. The tests reveal that one cannot rely on her, unlike Google.
Google was given the same test and scored 86% success. The downside is that even if you type in your questions, Google manages to get it wrong around 14% of the time. For those individuals who have confessed they would rather do without a cheeseburger than without Siri, there is some relief in the fact that Siri actually got 83% of questions right on a busy street and 89% in quiet conditions. However she cannot always find the right answers.
Questions that caused her problems were ambiguous, such as “where is Elvis buried?” Siri thought that CNET wanted to find someone with the name of Elvis Buried. When wanting directions to Lake Superior, Siri tried directing them to Lake Superior X-Ray. Siri has not been without troubles and only last month there were suggestions that the Lumia 900 was a better phone than the iPhone. Even Steve Wozniak said that some of the time Siri should get together with Wolfram Alpha more frequently than the 14% she does at the moment. Currently she is reliant on Google by 60%. If perfection is to be reached then she needs an intelligent backroom team, for as Wozniak said, Siri has been “dumbed down”.
