Siri Vs Now: Does Apple’s Siri Hate Google Now?

The latest tests also found evidence of behind-the-scenes improvements to Siri, though the changes have been slight. In iOS 5, Siri understood 89 percent of queries spoke in a quiet environment, while that improved to 91 percent in iOS 6, while 76 percent of queries were answered correctly in iOS 5 and that improved to 77 percent with iOS 6.

In typical fashion, nobody expected Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) to sit back too long while Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) dominated this side of the smartphone competition. With this in mind, the company launched a Siri of its own – known as Google Now.

So, which company has the lead at the present? According to Munster, it is close:

It appears the two voice assistants are comparable to one another in terms of understanding the spoken query and returning the correct result. In our test, Siri correctly understood our queries 91% of the time in a quiet environment compared to Google Now at 88%. In terms of accuracy, we determined that Siri accurately answered understood queries 77% of the time compared to 75% for Google now.

In the months to come, it is safe to say that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) will be putting plenty of resources into its respective voice-driven applications.

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