video Motorola pits Voice Actions against Siri

[techbeck]

Siri may be the media darling and, admittedly she's the one with the winning personality. But Motorola wants to remind you that Android has a voice control app of its own and argues it's better than its iPhone 4S exclusive competition. In a series of videos, which we've embedded after the break, Moto pits Voice Actions against Siri on a trio of handsets -- the Atrix 2, Photon 4G and Electrify. A faceless taskmaster tells the handset to send a text, pull up driving directions and load a website. In each of the tests, Voice Actions bests the polite lady inside the iPhone and gets crowned the champ. Though, we can't help but think things would have turned out differently if the competition involved finding the meaning of life.

http://youtu.be/Y6QySOKzFQk

http://youtu.be/FBYMDs_RFeI

http://youtu.be/bihgxpAQyXU

http://www.engadget....o-take-the-######/

[Krome]

Would have been much better if there 's no fricken boxing bells after each of the demo. It's annoying as hell.

[Jebadiah]

Anybody with stock Android should have already tried this 2 years ago. The problem I had was with the quality of the translation on Android. It ****ing sucks. Plus Siri does a lot more than just typical actions like navigate to, send text to, etc. Android hasn't grown in this area at all.

One thing that is keeping me on Android is the stock Car Home app. It's just fantastic! I won't miss anything else when I switch to iPhone or WP7.