5 Things Google Assistant Does Better Than Siri

Good news for anyone with an Android phone that is n’t a Pixel : Google Assistant isrolling out to more phones , young and old . That means many more of us will be able to take vantage of Google ’s latest and smart AI . There are some thing both the Google Assistant and Siri are excellent at — like pull up emails or express photos you ’ve necessitate in the last calendar week in a specific city ( Apple really seems to be catch up to Google in the look-alike psychoanalysis section ) .

But there are some things Google just does better . So kibosh with the Apple enviousness and read about some of the cardinal areas where Google Assistant has the boundary over Apple ’s own digital AI .

1) Getting instant answers from the web

Some of Google ’s instant answers might beon the dubious sidebut Google Assistant seems better at pulling nuggets of entropy from the web . It correctly reply to “ who won the Best Director Oscar ? ” and “ who wrote The Body In The Library ? ” with Damien Chazelle and Agatha Christie respectively .

Siri , in contrast , yield us a list of movies ( not including La La Land ) for the resolution to the first question , and lean the result of a Bing hunting for the second ( which , to be fairish , included Agatha Christie in the snippet previews ) . Obviously Siri gets a slew of questions right too , but Google Assistant seems to be ahead here .

2) Finding places nearby

Both Siri and Google Assistant do a decent enough job of finding eating place , bar , and other form of business organization nearby , but Google ’s app get out on top in our tests , not just on the places it returned , but on the interface : outcome are presented in a round-eyed carousel and you may quickly alternate to a Google Maps view .

Over on Siri the termination inclination is more difficult to parse and looks like sick a wider net . Your mileage may diverge depending on your position and the data these apps have to put to work with , but where we ’re from Google Assistant is currently more useful .

3) Remembering what you’ve already said

Out of the gate Google Assistant promise smart , contextual responses , so if you asked follow - up questions it would respond sanely . Howeverit was n’t always as smart as we would have liked , and Siri is now just as serious at dealing with those follow - up questions , so you’re able to ask both apps for the weather in Sydney , then say “ and New York ? ” and get the right answer .

Where Google Assistant still has the edge is remembering stuff about you ( predictably enough for a Google service ) . Tell the Google Assistant your favorite soccer team , and it remembers that information ; Siri just lists association football fixture . It ’s not a huge feature , but now you do n’t have to out yourself as a Manchester United fan at the bar , and instead can just ask “ how did my preferred squad do ? ”

4) Speaking in foreign languages

Google Assistant is just more garrulous than Siri full stop , but one sphere where this really come in ready to hand is with getting short phrases render . Ask Google Assistant to say “ how are you ? ” or “ what ’s the time ? ” in Spanish and you get the answer read back to you with bona fide accent .

Siri only look for Wolfram Alpha for a rendering , so it does n’t really work for phrases and you do n’t get the tally bonus of see the pronunciation . If you ’re a long way from home and need to find a can , then Google Assistant is far more helpful ( provide you have a adequate datum plan ) .

5) Going beyond being an assistant

Google Assistant is much more than an assistant , despite the name : it will read you poetry , secernate you a joke , or play a plot with you . At the moment Siri ca n’t do any of those things , and devolve a rather evasive response ( though to give it course credit , it will direct you to the App Store if you involve to wager a game ) .

It ’s perhaps a sign of Google ’s ambition for its young Assistant app , as a whole new interface for the web and your telephone rather than just an add - on . It ’s also fair to say it ’s still more rough around the edge than Siri is , but Apple ’s got its work abbreviate out if it want to keep stride with what Google ’s doing .

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