These days most assistants have a text chat mode where you can take the conversation off the air, but still get natural language responses. Cortana flat out refuses to launch any apps or step outside her app bubble as a whole. On Android, Google Assistant also happily complies with app launch requests, but strangely doesn’t work properly with YouTube Music. On iOS Siri launches apps with aplomb and is happy to play music using the Apple Music service. All three were happy to set reminders, take memos and put appointments on the calendar. Cortana uses Bing, which might not be a good thing for people who prefer Google’s algorithms. When it comes to doing web searches, all three assistants are perfectly fine. Setting reminders, opening webpages, starting apps and other similar tasks are the bread and butter of using a digital assistant. There’s quite a bit of digging in the menu to finding the cryptically-named “Voice Match” setting, which lets you summon the digital genie from anywhere on your phone, even if its locked.Ĭortana’s app only responds to the trigger word when the app is open. Google Assistant performs just as well, but it doesn’t behave this way by default. Using the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase is instant and you don’t have to wait for a prompt before asking your question.
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