Siri vs Alexa – Which is the Smartest Virtual Assistant?

The service is too easy, and it is a lazy task to chunk Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri into the same category. Moreover, both the services were virtual personal assistants and are developed by the two biggest and most influential companies in the tech world. Where both the services can answer your questions, control your smart lights, add things to shopping lists, with that, it will tell some awesome dad jokes. But when we come to reality both Siri and Alexa are pretty different, in fact, that it seems as that the only thing that they have common that is they both can respond to voice. Moreover, the Siri is an Apple mobile devices, and the Alexa is working on speakers. The Siri’s voice service is tightly controlled by Apple, and the developers of Alexa party was welcomed by Amazon to create all kinds of kinds of skills. The Siri service is close to the users, and the Alexa can hear you from and across the room. Here we can see Siri vs Alexa.

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Comparison of Siri vs Alexa

Here we say that what are the similarities and differences that we can find between Siri vs Alexa. In that, some of them are given here.

• Recognizing your voice
• Making calls
• Music services
• General questions

Recognizing your voice

The HomePod is not like iPhones, but the Siri cannot able to differentiate between the voices. This says that if anyone says “Hey Siri” will show the response from the Apple smart speaker. Then we come to contrast the Amazon speakers has voice training capabilities. Herewith the help of voice training, the device can be used by your entire family, where every user can get customize responses, which entirely based on the device that you are talking. The devices will not provide the depth of personalization, with that, it says that the Amazon has not completely nailed the feature. At the time of testing, we can able to trick Alexa just by pretending to be our coworkers.

Making calls

To make a call with the help of this service you will say “Hey Siri, call the caller name” from your iPhone, and she will respond to you as “Calling Tyler Lizenby, from your mobile.” If you try it on some other smart device like HomePod, it will say that I wish I could, but I can’t help you make calls on HomePod. From Alexa, you can only to receive calls from other Echo speakers, cell and all the landline calls are not supported in Alexa.

Music services

Amazon can support a wide range of third-party music services, where the Alexa service can play all your Spotify song with just a simple voice command. The Siri device can only use the voice command to play some of the Apple-approved music services. In the case, if you want to use the services like Spotify, YouTube or another third-party service, for that we have to send the songs manually from your phone to your iOS device. Here it has more info on the approved music services for Siri and Alexa.

General questions

Basically, Siri has done a great job by responding to your basic questions, roughly as like as you using Alexa. Where if you want to know about the weather forecast, to know about the driving time to the movie theatre across the town, name of local restaurants and more. Moreover, the service can accept the natural languages and then the Alexa was not quite responsive when you come to conversational follow-up questions. If you ask a question to Siri on your device, where it will produce a link relevant Wikipedia link. But Alexa has no more issues for answering questions with your voice.

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