Microsoft's Tellme vs Apple's Siri
Microsoft’s chief strategy and research officer Craig Mundie talked to Forbes about the company’s kinect and when asked about Siri, he said that Siri was nothing special, and Microsoft’s own voice capabilities have been around for over a year. Siri is all about good marketing nothing else:
People are infatuated with Apple announcing it. It’s good marketing, but at least as the technological capability you could argue that Microsoft has had a similar capability in Windows Phones for more than a year, since Windows Phone 7 was introduced.
This is what Microsoft execs usually say when challenged with a tech by their competitors:
you can pick ‘em up and say ‘text Eric’ and say what you wanna say and it transcribes it. You can query anything through Bing by just saying the words. I mean, all that’s already there. Fully functional, been there for a year.
This is not the first time, we all know when Steve Ballmer slammed the original iPhone back in 2007 and touted it as being overpriced and not appealing to business for the lack of a keyboard.
Jason from techau ran a test and put a video comparison between Microsoftt’s Tellme and Apple’s Siri. Watch the video below. The results speak for themselves:
One Response to “Microsoft’s Tellme vs Apple’s Siri Video Comparison”
I’m no Apple fanboy but, Siri is something to show up and brag about. I mean voice to text has been around for a while, especially with Android, they have a “mic†icon on their keyboard by default that allows you to say whatever you want and turn it into text. But Siri is its own beast. Its almost as if you have your own personal assistant in your pocket. I’m not gonna say Siri is awesome and that I’d use it all the time, but, its unique.