Like a human you can also interact with machines is possible nowadays. An IPA (intelligent personal assistant) can be interact by people who search for music, news, weather report for whatever information they want through voice search. You can question your personal assistant to get back the result from it. It performs the task whatever you’re given to it. All brands are now involved in developing personal assistant for the people voice search. The top IPAs are Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri Microsoft Cortana.
Let I’m going to compare this 3 personal assistant which perform better for you.
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1.Amazon Alexa:
Alexa currently uses two languages to get instruct they are English and German. This can able to do activities such as
Music play, alarm setting, interacting, play audio book, weather reporting, cooking instructions, alerts and whatever real time information you need.
Special uses:
- You can turn on and off the lights in your home.
- It helps to send the brightness of your lights.
- You can reorder the products which you need from Amazon by using Alexa.
- Alexa can able to set the temperature of the room.
- You can set the timer using Alexa.
Features:
- Uses microphones and speakers in it for interaction.
- Alexa app is used for both Android and IOS versions.
- It supports for operating system in iOS 8.0 versions or later versions. For android version 4.4 or later version.
2.Apple Siri
It acts like a knowledge navigator for the people who want to answer their questions.It is a program initially that runs on iPhone. In Later this program available in BlackBerry and also Android phones.
Now this technology is used in third generation iPad series, apple watches and in Apple TV.
FEATURES:
- It is used by carplay in cars. That uses audio system to control your Smartphone when you are in driving.
- That helps to read your messages in your phone by asking question to Siri. The siri can read your message and deliver to you in voice. At the same time you can send reply to that message using your voice instruction.
- The great thing is that you can check the traffic when you are in driving by Siri assistant.
- Used to check the weather outside or you can check the weather in certain area.
- You can set timer when you are in cooking.
- It is able to control your system in a faster way.
3.Microsoft’s Cortana
Cortana software recognizes voice speech of people and response according to that.
This software is used in Windows mobile8.1, bing mobile also in windows 10.
Operation done by cortana:
- By using this intelligent personal assistant you can able to set reminder for calls.
- Search information using bing search engine.
- Cortana can calculate math.
- It checks with current weather, current news and sports scores extra.
- Make a call.
- create a text message.
- speech notes ca be taken.
- can set alarm.
- search for free music.
- can get direction
- search Apps’
- can able to set reminder for certain date or time.
- If you said to another reminder for the same date cortana reminds you when you are setting the second reminder that you have already one reminder in that date.
Languages:
You can instruct this IPA by American English, British English, Chinese, Japanese, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages.
The following chart shows you which personal assistant response first when asking related questions:
| Features | Alexa | Siri | Cortana |
| Weather Questions | First | second | First |
| Calendar | First | second | second |
| Translation | second | second | First |
| General Knowledge Questions | First | second | second |
| Personality | First | First | First |
| Music play | First | First | First |
| Sports | First | second | First |
| Travel | second | first | Third |
All the three IPA are good. If you go with performance wise Alexa performs faster when compared to others. But it struggle to give answer for few questions.And also it works better on your home devices.
Siri can able to answer whatever the questions you ask to her.This is very helpful when you are in driving when compared to others.
Cortana performs well when you search for apps like Twitter, Skype extra. It is good for giving additional information with your question.
I hope now you can able to select better personal assistant which can fulfill your needs.Let make te life simple with this IPA.
