MKBHD's Voice Assistant Battle (2017)

MKBHD recently published a really solid comparison video of the top voice assistants—Google Assistant, Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Samsung's Bixby. The results weren't quite what I expected. 

  • Google Assistant was impressive as we've come to expect. It wasn't perfect, but it was really consistent.
  • Siri was super solid. Despite missing a handful of requests, it was significantly better than Alexa or Bixby and arguably as good as Google Assistant.
  • Alexa (on a phone) showed it can do much of what Google Assistant and Siri can do, but at least for now, it fails at phone-specific tasks (i.e. open Instagram or set a timer or show me pictures).
  • Bixby was better than I expected but clearly the least reliable. That said it was able to do some multi-step tasks that none of the others could do (Open the Play Store, search Uber and download the top result).

Watch his video and let me know what you think.

TechnologyTimothy Buck