https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKj-6oqcwE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKj-6oqcwE)
During Google's I/O conference last week where the Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 were both introduced, we got a brief look at the new voice activated search 'assistant' in Jelly Bean which many have compared to Apple's 'Siri'. While I was impressed during the demo at the conference the above video by Android Community's Cory Gunther really blew me away.
There's no doubt that Google's 'Assistant' sounds much more human than Apple's 'Siri' and the ability to understand relatively rapid speech with little or no errors is also impressive. Now obviously this is a technology that is continuing to evolve rapidly and as Google improves the technology we can expect more and more Artificial Intelligence features to make its way into the new 'Assistant'...which since I can't find any other name given to her I've chosen to name 'Gabby'. ;D What do you think? Is gonna be a fun feature to play around with or what? Seems to blow 'Siri' out of the water, no?
Note: (While Cory calls this 'Google Now' in the video, that is actually a different feature that I will go into in a future article. This video is the voice actuated search 'assistant')
(http://i.imgur.com/Z61gw.png)
Source: androidcommunity (http://androidcommunity.com/google-now-voice-search-hands-on-video-20120703/)