Battle of the Digital Assistants

DUBAI, UAE - Oct. 24, 2017 - PRLog -- Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Google Assistant and Amazon's Alexa offer voice control feature and come with smart devices that are AI powered. The emergence of new products in digital age has the potential to control almost everything from a minimalist smartphone to an entire home; suffused with digital tech.

Voice Control: A historical perspective
Apple's Siri was the first voice activated technology available commercially back in 2011 ON iOS-5 following the launch of iPhone 4S. The very following year brought a competitor by search engine giant namely Google Now on devices running Android 4.1 – Jellybean. It was soon replaces with Google Home that came out in spring of 2016.

Alexa by Amazon made its debut in November 2014 and is one of the most established digital assistants to stand out of the competition. Alexa is mounted on Amazon's own hardware as well as into a number of third-party devices.

Smart speakers
Amazon Echo, smart speaker is the first product to come in mind when talking of voice control technology along with the cheaper and smaller counterpart; the Echo Dot. The recently launched Google Home products have all it takes to fuel the competition including Google Home Max and the Google Home Mini.

Google and Amazon are accrediting their voice technologies to intermediate manufacturers including JBL, Harman Kardon, Panasonic and Sonos with a few more in near future.

Playing music
Neither Google Home nor Amazon Echo devices are audiophile products however; you can output audio to the High-Fi speaker system through Bluetooth/line. These digital assistants still lack the power and precision when it comes to searching a particular audio file since these look into their own, dedicated directory.

Multi-room audio
The biggest benefits of both Amazon Alexa and Google Home is their potential to play music throughout the house without investing in expensive multi-room audio system. Simply place each device in a room where you wish listening music and use the respective apps to connect the speakers. The multi-room feature is currently available for iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora and TuneIn whereas Spotify support arriving soon.

Connecting the smart home
Digital assistants are gradually used for home automation besides music and entertainment with Amazon leading the way here as well. HomeKit programme by Apple also gained momentum among the developer's community and complementary hardware suite by Google include devices from the Nest such as Nest Learning Thermostat.

Information & trivia
What's AI for if it doesn't know everything! Digital assistants can be useful and also fun especially when you've got the hands full in the kitchen. In fact, Siri is likely to tell you a joke or two but here, Google Home has the most developed and powerful brain thanks to the integration of Google search engine and its deeper understanding of the context as compared to Amazon Echo.

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