The Voice Assistant Battle! (2023) 

Please bring back the iPhone 15 Mini.... Mini phones are not for everyone but are for some of us.

@@fxmasterwongi get a button phone

And not actually say "Hey Google"😎 in the video.

Can we just appreciate that he works for hours to make these videos for us. He does all of this just to entertain us. We don’t deserve him ❤

@@fxmasterwongi just get a pixel 6a

I'll take Morgan Freeman

@@MontereyFilms like i said… serious money

@@aaronpeter6474Yess totally.

Why don't you invest %10 of that in my pod business which is struggling coz I'm short of cash for some resources

So I've been your voice assistant for the last couple weeks now...

It wasn't even that long ago when everyone wanted bixby gone! Now look at bixby doing well

Yeah and Bixby Routines (I think they're changing this name tho) it is really good if you're into it, far better from Apple Shortcuts or whatever

Yes, I completely agree to this. This video truly changed my perspective towards Bixby

Especially when you see Siri in comparison... I remember when Siri was the benchmark (well, it was the first for smartphones, I think). Kind of sad.

I think the hate for bixbi was how insanely hard samsung pushed it and forced everyone to use it. Some earlier phones had their own dedicated bixby button which you couldn't remap until a later update. This did not seem right by anyone.

Yup. Bixby is really well interested into the settings. I used my voice assistant a lot and, while Google assistant is catching up to changing my phone settings, Bixby is the winner

Agreed 💀😂

I'm sure a few things might be worse than iPhone, but I think you'd be blown away by a lot of the features on Android, and Pixel in particular, that you just can't do on an iPhone.

All options suck and are not even able to get half as close to the Russian assistant - Alice

He should have used a phone with Alexa and Amazon apps integrated

at least amazon got an idea, gratuit😁

It feels like apple isn't really paying attention to Siri anymore

Yep. Not even close

Siris voice sounds clearer tho

Siri is by now a liability. Let it drift a little more and HomePods will leave my home. One step in breaking the wallet garden

@@Tilteddog but that could just be the speakers

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Surprised to see you here! Its been so long since ive watched your videoss!!

a lot of work is an understatement

I was pleasantly surprised by Bixby but i assume there's a lot of Google DNA inside it

@@panathatube that's actually a good thing Siri really struggled with understanding and also why the hell would I want to go half way around the world in a car? It legit suggests places out of my country for places I want to go too and it really needs to be fixed

U better hope she didn't hear u,lol

Windows phone was also my favorite to use but it didn't have the support from devs

I would love for Cortana to be licensed to Google in perpetuity. I'd love to say Hey Cortana or Okay Cortana, but have the power of Google. And heck, the voice of Cortana for that matter.

@@GTYellowJacket9the Hardware was so far ahead of its time, it was incredible, the lack of support killed it before it could take off. The sad part is, if Microsoft did it today, I think it would be more successful as they have a better relationship with third-party developersz

How I like my women 🤣

Cortana on PC is amazing, the device control is so good i could tell it to shutdown via verbal command, which most assistants would stop there, other than Bixby of course since both their nature is very similar.

It's pretty ridiculous how they still have so many flaws and blow everyone else out of the water despite them

@@meso772 Yep siri is only good for weather, timer, and msg reply. Pretty dumb in everything else.

yeah is the smartest, but i have a google nest mini 2 speaker, and an alexa echo dot 4 gen, and alexa is by far responding much faster, and the google takes up to a minute to respond and find the ansfer, same with the smart devices control in my room, so i sold my google nest, and i remain with my alexa

Agree. I was an IOS user for a decade and used Siri regularly. It's fine and can do the basics. However I was shocked when I switched to a Pixel phone last year and started pushing the boundaries of the voice assistant. It just does stuff you assume aren't possible because you get so used to the other brands assistants which are so one dimensional.

I have an iPhone but my apartment is filled with google speakers. Google Assistant has so much trouble playing music for some reason! It keeps playing the wrong songs or has the hardest time finding my playlists

I do that too but be careful because often the answers are absolutely wrong. especially math. its bad at math. Siri never messes up math, not for me ever. super strange.

@@Chris_Hruska becasue siri uses wolfram alpha

Curious what you are using it for

bumb for matter

MIGHT get the correct song 50% of the time. Its fucking wild how bad Siri is with all the money they have to work with.

I laugh when Siri goes “Sorry I can’t search the web on iPhone”. Um what 🤷‍♂️

siri generally has bad word recognition. If I want to listen to a band that has not over 100.000 listeners a month it never finds the band, mainly because it does not unerstand what I am saying. The matching does not seem to happen on a word to word basis, but what is most likely the thing i wanted to find

google assistant in android auto sucks too tbh. they`re both pretty much the same. they should make it so you get the full functioning assistant/siri in your car, and not just "open app xyz" "play song xyz"

@@Doofens not mine, i literally do nothing with my hands when using android auto. Maybe a user error or car microphone issue

Truest facts. Car play Siri is near useless for me. Ask it to navigate somewhere, on waze, and it will often ignore it and open Apple Maps. And on anything not apple, good luck accomplishing anything with voice.. "Stop navigation" does nothing for example

that sucks, but I'm pretty sure google assistant couldn't do that either. they both can only interact with media apps really. must be legal reasons?

With Siri you have to setup shortcuts which is a task in itself to get it to do something in Waze. I have spent lots of time and effort to get simple things to work. So now I just set it up in the app.

@@Doofens you sir are absolutely wrong there :D i use google assistant in my car all the time with waze without problems, works perfectly, if i say navigate to petrol station and im already in waze it just does it in waze, but i can tell it to use waze anyway and it understands, if i say navigate to xy in google maps it opens up google maps even if im in waze and starts a navigation there, obviously google assistant is still not perfect especially in a car, but million times better than carplay it seems

@@egoszmotyike Probably works so well with Waze because google owns Waze

I actually liked the old format better.

@@OneKnifeYeHand There are still other RU-vidrs that do that.

I think you are not allowed to use chatgpt but I get what you are saying

@@henkiespenkie4414 you can use it right now wym

Google assistant is already using machine learning (what powers those new AIs) to drive it’s assistant results. They’ll continue making improvements but what you’re seeing here with the context recall and general results are directly derived from similar back end tech to ChatGPT

With how far AI has come in terms of pre-trained ones (GPT3, DALLE, etc) that use pre-existing information to dynamically create new information, it'll be cool to see how developers at Google, Apple, Samsung, etc incorporate that type of machine learning into a voice assistant. What's a REALLY cool possibility is that if every persons voice assistant is only trained to that one person, which makes all virtual assistants unique to their respective users. When you setup your phone and go through the voice assistant setup, maybe there would be personal questions asked (your full name, career, your likes/dislikes, your character traits, etc) to really personalize it for only you. When your VA then replies, it will reply in a manner that would only be appropriate or interesting to just you. And the more you use the VA, the more it will train itself to only fit you correctly. It would also be a cool experiment to let every single person in the world train their own VA and see how weird or interesting they become through all this individually different data they come across.

I'm wondering when these assistants will start leveraging ChatGPT

I have so much selfmade shortcuts, obviously also for making a photo

Good to know and all, but such a thing would be nearly impossible for someone like my mother to set up without help, as she and tech just don't vibe well at all. For her and those like her, the command just simply working out of the box makes a huge difference.

making siri shortcuts is such a pain

@@mollerbt you can share shortcuts with her easily.... (still would make sense to make them work oob)

Yeah it’s kind of like apples saying “fix it yourselves” tho

then welcome to the hood , his videos are soooo authentic and simplicity that u cant find elsewhere in tech YTers

You've got brown on you.

@@TheTechAdmin that's kinda racist but funny xD

@@sebastiangomes2769 😒

@@Neighbourhooddegenerate🙄

quality over quantity

True, although what I find frustrating with the boomers is how quickly they get sucked into every product into Apples ecosystem and refuse to try something new. The new Google devices with all their AI smarts are probably better suited to them.

@@MrPixel. I've tried them all and tbh theres no significant difference. they can all turn your smart lightbulbs on and off, start a timer and tell you the weather. the google home and alexa apps are probably too complicated for the average boomer while siri just works. (google home is a complete mess)

@@Doofens lol

​@@Doofensyou've been in multiple comments tryna downplay Google and have been wrong with each one. If you hate Google then just say that instead of spitting false information especially to those who may be looking for useful information on products they might purchase in the future.

yeah, but apple designed the clock app also.

@@cuber64 Oh, really?! I didn’t know that!! Of course they did… 🤦🏽‍♂️ But, again, that is not a Siri herself problem, it’s an app design issue.

siri's interface has always been incredibly ugly

Only wish Samsung released homepod competitor.

My phone (pixel 7 pro) doesn't even respond to "Hey google."

I've got the Google mini and that thing always responds. Often times I'll have just woken up my voice is all messed up and I'm mumbling and that thing still understands. I'd recommend turning up the sensitivity for the wake up command

@@gabe6068 I've got 3 devices, the sensitivity is useless. I have living room on max and bedroom on minimum and still sometimes bedroom speaker responds when i am in living room. It's a sham. I've got routines i use daily, you'd think it would learn to understand "change lights to evening" when I said it 1000x but instead it asks "set alarm for when?" Or "i found a shopping centre near you in Beijing only 5,000km away" it's become more useless by the years.

​@@thewaffle003 maybe you gotta set it up boss

@@Henry-qt3py Not the issue fam. It's simply glitchy as hell.

there alexa will come second after GA

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Georgia?

@@tonypadilla9596 Yes.

@@tonypadilla9596 Georgia is the best! 🤪

wtf is GA

@@warishae.9143 Google Assistant

You choose the hotword tho

@@ygwaltgmb for google assistant? How?

Agreed. In Dutch, Google Assistant on Google Nest (Hub) can’t even start a podcast on Spotify, if you ask it for a playlist it doesn’t first start with your own etc. All sort of random questions it consistently hangs on. Siri does all this on all my Apple devices :/ more over Siris voice is far more natural and pleasing than Google assistant. When switched to English, Google does quite well. But the beta where u can have it listen to 2 languages is still dog shit after 5 years. So guess I’m stuck with 2 halve arsed assistants.

And bixby best for korean? Lol😂

@@Rudransh-rc7bp It's true.

lmao siri 🤣

Do you ever speak in a mixture of the two languages? How does it handle that? Now I'm wondering if google assistant can understand spanglish lmao

​@@GlorifiedGremlin Per command/request only German or English, but your question made me curious. I will try :-)

@@GlorifiedGremlin That would be impossible. Recognizing two languages and identifying what the user is saying is linguistically impossible, because many languages have a similar vocabulary (Exempli gratia, Spanish and Portuguese) and there are UNCOUNTABLE false cognates across languages.

@@Ed.07 Works for me when I speak both English and French at the same time. Usually French grammar and sentence structure while using English words. ! For example, I say "Hey google, active Voice Access" and it works. or I say "Il reste combien de jours pour Christmas (je viens d'essayer" I have a pixel phone but not the most recent

He is biased towards Google and Apple unfortunately

Agree!! That's one of the features I miss on the Pixel. Bixby routines and Siri Shortcuts are the best.

That's the only part of Bixby I use. Got turned off from the assistant from it being so bad back when it came out lol

@@abroonasif4691 Its a shame that we are talking about the biggest tech youtuber on the platform, here.

it wouldn't be a fair comparison though, since apple has automations too, they're just not part of auf the voice assistant..

And how you like photos to be..

It makes sense that Googles is the best. They collect all information on you unabated and therefore know everything there is about you. With Apple, Bixby and Alexa, they all don't have nearly as much information as Google does so they all have to do a lot of guesswork or generalization.

Google is good at AI stuff in general. They've been doing it for ages so the other guys have to catch up.

Google is great at googling. Go fig

also camera phones :)

what you're asking for is extremely difficult,google assistant can't even do it which is backed by google's ai companies

Contextual clues weren't even added to Siri until iOS 8. You can't ask a series of questions to any capacity on iOS 5-7. Siri just has no clue.

@@15Stratos Real tech tho, it exists and Google is holding out. ChatGPT does it with flying colors it's why the internet is obsessed with it. It's just the tech is cloud based and too "smart" for its own good to easily control (plus hard to validate its answers), and Google is scared of a big media outlet catching a LLM in saying something inappropriate or inaccurate in today's world of mass misinformational panic.

@@15Stratos Hmm. Odd. Because Google Assistant does that in this video. Maybe one of us misunderstood....

Behind the scenes they actually had to completely rework Siri a few years after introducing it as the way it was architected when they bought Siri (the company) just wasn’t scalable. That would explain why it seemed stagnant for some while.

That could be combined with a Matter video. Would be great!

Personally if I ask where something is I just want a city/state/country answer, with the option to open the map after. If I ask how to get somewhere then I want the map.

The location showed in the pin was wrong though. :)

I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 9, setting up alarms with the main Bixby button is extremely smooth and honestly surprisingly reliable.

Bixby routines now no longer uses Bixby on it's name. Samsung realized that people hates bixby and decided to not associate its best feature with the name

@@mehshutup3041 nah now Bixby has been more improved

Bixby is a lot better.

Which makes so little sense. Google has done so much work with artificial Voices in the ML world. Why don't they just release it for their Assistant?

@@gempir You can change Google assistant's voice.

He did talk about it in his podcast

plus 1

@@pumbi69 I know I know but watching a video were he only talks about home integrations between companies and matter would be very cool.

Not many Matter devices yet, so almost nothing to talk about.

Unfortunately that was Alexa's purpose all along: to pump up Amazon sales

OMG that sounds miserable! It really tries to sell you stuff after a command? Who could have possibly thought that was a good idea...

So happy I don’t get Alexa lol. Sorry this happens m, but as the other comment mentioned, this was to boost Amazon sales.

Its crazy how people keep saying that yet its been years of daily use and my echo has never said an extra word about amazon itself

I still remember when Alexa didn’t wake me up by calling me sunshine as she told me the weather after turing off my alarm

Same! I feel like Siri on HomePod is the best assistant for smart homes. It knows to only switch the lights in the room you're talking to, when you don't specify and you can also chain as well as exclude devices from being switched. "Turn off all the lights, except under cabinet" or "turn on the fan in the living room and in the bedroom"

Me too was considering ditching Alexa for a nest hub because Alexa can't really answer many questions accurately.

WHAT THEY SAID. ☝️

I have never heard of it until now, what is it?

AND Thread too.

Me too!

video on matter would be great!

🤣😂

Like frrrr 😭🤣🤣

Seriously, the way Bixby is integrated with my cellphone is amazing. It controls everything so well, the only thing I sometimes miss is the ongoing conversation capabilites, but I barely use those anyway. SmartThings is also great to be paired with it

I doubut google giving up on assistant, and bixby has has bad rep and poor marketing tbh, still good but no where near in terms of scale and growth as its limited to samsung

Try Bixby in Norwegian, swedish, Danish, Dutch, Portugese (not Brazilian Portugese) , Hungarian, Csech, Russian, Arab, and so on and so on. it will not work. Bixby may be fine for some langauges: English (variants), Brazilian Portugese, Spanish, French, German Chinese Korean and Italian. That is all.

I'm a fan of bixby. I use it on all my Samsung devices. Like my watch, phone, headphones & tablet. And that's what I set my smart home around so i got tvs to match 😁

Bixby seems to have these great features, but I won't switch over to it before it adds more language support. It's to silly for me to have a calendar with events in my non native language. :/

😂

Couldn't agree more! During the summer I have used Bixby to turn on the air conditioning at home once I leave the office and turn on the lights once I get near home. It's like having an actual assistant at home!

Is that Bixby related? I can do those things with stock Android on my Pixel.

@@lewiscopland4568 As far as I'm aware, yes. They're called Bixby routines. You can do things like automatically turning on your Samsung TV on certain channels once you're home at a certain hour. Maybe text a family member automatically once you're at a specific location. It's pretty darn customizable :)

Well with Android you can customize the animations to be anything/any phone you want even iPhone the downside is you have to buy your apps again since Apple, Amazon and Google don't share app licenses sadly

I personally prefer Samsung S22 Ultra for it's better screen and features. Pixel's software -is glitchy- and Apple's lacks basic features, but they all have their pros and cons and it depends on what you like

@@willwunsche6940 I don't think the pixel software is glitchy at all. It might have been a while back but from what I've heard its perfectly fine now. Been using a Pixel 7 Pro myself and have had no issues

@@TheRealAstro_ Oh good to know! In my past experience it had a lot of bugs, less support and I thought it was still the same problem as the MKBHD video showed. I absolutely loved stock Android back in the day and my Google Asus Nexus 7 growing up. I'll have to look into it again although I am pretty happy with my S22U. I used to despise Samsung software pre-S9 but it is entirely different beast now that One UI is a thing.

@@TheRealAstro_ Just wait lol, it's the defining pixel feature. My Pixel 1 started great and so did my Pixel 5, really annoying bugs within a year, takes forever to fix and sometimes they just dont fix them

yeah it is almost an Google Assistant with Samsung skin! If it works, do not change heh?

It sucks. It's honestly really bad. Google is far, far superior.

They all suck. It's interesting how these companies can't make an assistant that understand foreign accents.

Google assistant is absolutely insane at that. %100 the best in my experience, especially for strong African accents or indi accents google assistant will understand

@@ajnart_ can it handle the scottish accent test tho?

My wife has a strong Latin accent and google gets it right every time. The voice assist in the tesla couldn't understand and we had to change it to Spanish. No problem with the google in the volvo electric.

I'm just talking from my experience with people around me. Granted they're not south american or Indian.

This is currently true on the S22 I'm using 😬😬

@@mkbhd what the, thats such a weird thing to do. You really never know with these companies anymore

Interesting to know

@@lyndonhayes3311 I think it comes down to Amazon cutting costs on Alexa and gradually moving away from it. Alexa has been costing Amazon about $10 billion a year and the results aren’t there for that price, so I think you’ll see them scaling it back and no longer positioning it as a real competitor to the other voice assistants, all in an effort to stop the project from burning through cash.

@@BryanTerran Exactly, it costs a lot to keep developing the service and to keep servers running but it hardly makes them any money. They sell their smart speakers at a loss as well to get people in to their ecosystem but can't make the money back. Makes me wonder what Google and Apple is planning for their services, the same got to be true for them, right? People asking about the weather, setting timers and playing their favourite songs can't make them much money. I guess time will tell 🙂