Comments on: iPhone Siri vs. Windows Phone TellMe in fair comparison video

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:18:00 +0000

Siri bandwith consumption is likely to raise the cost of 4G communication. Aside from that I must admit Siri is cool.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:16:00 +0000

Siri is great, but it requires a powerful server. That is it consumes a large amount of data transfer. Tellme, on the other hand, operates locally on the Windows Phone. The more Ipad and Iphones are using Siri the more difficult it will become to provide bandwith to satisfy the demand. We will all pay the price for the greater demand.

By: Newkid Nuñez

Newkid Nuñez — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:22:00 +0000

on SlashGEAR | via DISQUS, both are cool! accent issue, not cool! hehehe

By: Peter L Shields

Peter L Shields — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:18:00 +0000

I have been a tech for nearly 50 years, the arguments between the followers of microsoft and apple are all a figment of the marketing imagination. In the end the user is right, what works for you is great. Have the courage of your own convictions and don’t worry what others say about it. I’m an Apple users even though I have had many types of computers. Apple has provided what works for me. Siri and Tellme are two sides of the same coin one is not better its just different.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:57:00 +0000

Generally intelligent people who work in areas other than IT, are too busy with their own stuff to let technology come in their way.

Microsoft does nt get the meaning of this. It is too profound for them to really understand what this means. Google is in the same boat. Both care for their own developers. End users are an after thought.

A consequence of this rotten mindset causes them to not see the difference between getting a precise answer from phones and letting the end user figure it out himself.

By: Conbon1

Conbon1 — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:26:00 +0000

If u like wp7 you’re always going to justify its flaws and raise it’s strengths extremely high. Same with apple. So just pick a phone don’t diss tellme if u have Siri. And don’t rag on Siri if u have tellme.

By: Martin Turner

Martin Turner — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:07:00 +0000

Just the results of the two tests – merely drawing inferences from the videos.
Martin Turner
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By: 1001

1001 — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:50:00 +0000

Surely, you jest.

I happen to speak articulate English and the TellMe program works better for me than the Siri app.

Siri for a simple show. TellMe for the sensible pro.

By: 1001

1001 — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:46:00 +0000

The common person generally has the common sense to ask for the weather. The intelligent don’t need to ask an app if they ‘need an umbrella’.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:24:00 +0000

How can they be more advanced when the article says that Microsoft demoed an improved tellme with new speech recognition improvements to match SIRI when they clearly said there was nothing special about SIRI and they had the software first if I was there before and so good why would they improve upon it

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:50:00 +0000

if you want a butler get wp7, he will do what you ask for nothing more nothing less.
if you want a nagging e wife get iOS

lol i have used both and i am favouring WP7. not just the voice application is great but the rest of the OS is much better and simple, which i really like. and thank god there are no 100k fart applications in the marketplace.

By: José Villaró

José Villaró — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:18:00 +0000

So? Are you such idiot that you can’t keep track of them?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:39:00 +0000

Natural language processing may not be a big deal to basement dwelling .NET developers ( or as a matter of fact any basement dwelling software developer ) but it is a big deal to common folks. ( I use the phrase basement dwelling deliberately here because there indeed are good software developers out there who also have good common sense. I don’t want to trivialize them)

You see there is a saying called – simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It really is extremely difficult to simplify complex tasks. Apple excels in this. Asking whether I need an umbrella today and getting a precise answer yes or no, is beautifully simple and extremely sophisticated to implement.

The rest of the industry and their fanbois have no clue what simplicity means. In fact most of times they dismiss the simplicity implicit in Apple’s designs because they mistakenly believe that reduction in choice that simplicity brings is a bad thing to have. The analogy of Windows and Android fanbois is that of a stick shift car salesman who promotes his stick shift car as something that offers choice to the end user in changing gears and hence being superior to automatic transmission cars. However common folks actually love automatic transmission cars as they simplify car driving experience. Stick shift might be great for expert drivers who can optimize the car performance as much as they please, but for common folks it really does not matter.

PS: common folks need not necessarily mean dumb idiots, they also include people like myself who happen to have a PhD in materials science. I bet I know far more on Materials Science than a basement dwelling software developer. And I love natural language processing.

It really is a big deal.

By: Daleos

Daleos — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:08:00 +0000

I can’t see why asking if I need an umbrella is any better than asking the phone to pop up the local weather app. It’s hardly a ‘big fail’ whatever happens.

Technologically Siri may be streets ahead of the competition but as a real world benefit, the advance is marginal at best.

By: Herman Guerra

Herman Guerra — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:44:00 +0000

He is not a nerd. He does not know any better. …just another example of sheep doucheness.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:08:00 +0000

Natural language processing.

WP7 does not have it.

Asking your phone whether you need an umbrella and the phone interpreting this as a query on local weather and further refining the results for a precise yes or no answer is a big deal.

Windows users = big fail

If they cannot understand this advance.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:15:00 +0000

@google-9da8b1954519c2907a8c17fee107aa10:disqus

Being an American I don’t have an English accent and I use Tellme all the time on my Android phone in the Bing app and it works just fine. Of course I’ve never really tried to dictate an entire paragraph, converse with it, asked it the meaning of life or who/what it is… I’ve also never thanked it for anything, all of which you can do with Siri, if you’re either bored, lonely or just stupid. Because I’m not a nerd and don’t need a digital girlfriend. I just need the app to return relevant search results and it works almost every time. As far as accents go there is this vid with a heavily hungarian accent and another with a heavily Indian accent on the web comparing voice on both platforms and in both instances Tellme appears, when correctly used, to understand the user on the first pass BETTER than Siri does (for those of us not fortunate enough to have an Australian accent which Siri appears to favor). This probably has something to do with the fact that Tellme is used to power customer service call centers all over the world and has been able to leverage all the real world accents it hears whereas Siri has probably been taught accent recognition in an r&d lab. Brandon by “a lot of people” you must mean yourself, try Tellme in the Bing app for web searches, use it to find things on the web to do so you can get out of your mom’s house and stop talking to your phone. I guarantee you will EVER find the meaning of life on an Apple device but someday you might actually be able to use your voice to launch one of the 500,000 apps you’ve loaded on your phone and then never used. A function strangely missing from the, “there’s an app for that” set.

By: Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:38:00 +0000

Siri still works better for me. I tried the windows 7 phone in the store and it sucked so either I need to develop an Indian accent or a lot of people on here are full of crap.

By: Cory J. Crook

Cory J. Crook — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:55:00 +0000

What a great comparison, I remember when I had an iPhone and used Siri as an app before Apple bought them, it was a really cool app. I’ve since switched to WP7 and I love it! I do wish that Tellme did more though, such as the location aware reminders that Siri has, but, I really love the hands-free text experience with WP7, top notch!

By: John Lehmkuhl

John Lehmkuhl — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:35:00 +0000

I love these 2 word messages – great way to see how accurate the speech to text abilities are like… With my iPhone 4S I can write a 5 paragraph story by voice with ?, !, ” and so much more. I’d like to see a comparison that goes deeper than “Hello John”

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:12:00 +0000

This is no surprise, TellMe is more advanced than Siri. I am rather surprised at how Apple fanatics respond to Microsoft having better technologies than Apple. This is only one of many much more such technologies. Real phone users can testify that WP7 is a better extension of your desktop/laptop than an iPhone. The number of apps available is not important, what is important is having the essential apps. Just like comparing PC to Mac, PCs have millions of apps compared to Macs but how much of it does the average user ever use?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:41:00 +0000

I remember several years ago before bing was coined, my old OLD non smartphone had voice searching via some type of windows live feature that was on the phone and it worked really well so I’m not surprise that TellMe would work well.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:41:00 +0000

yeah, seems like with the exception of calendar integration TellMe is MORE capable that Siri. I guess if you’re a lonely, basement dwelling nerd who needs to have “conversations” with electronics then Siri is the right choice for you but I have conversations with actual people so I just need my phone to return the information I ask for.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:40:00 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:36:00 +0000

Seems pretty clear, at least to anybody that isn’t a smug idiot, that like ALL tools you have to use both Siri and Tellme correctly – and if you do the results are generally positive. The integration and capabilities of both are pretty impressive and this rag outfit Tech AU and Jason should be ashamed for trying to pass off their Apple Siri promotional video as a valid comparison. Tech AU are the ONLY ones that got such poor results using TellMe so it’s clearly Jason and not the platform.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:24:00 +0000

what a fucking idiot …. he changes iphone and wp7 place all the time….
are you stupid ????????????

By: Rodney5

Rodney5 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:17:00 +0000

This is very interesting. It seems like Tellme is actually way more useful.

By: Martin Turner

Martin Turner — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:13:00 +0000

Gotcha — so, if you speak ordinary English, get the iPhone, but if you have a strong Hungarian accent, it has to be TellMe. Now we know.