Apple Siri vs Android Voice Actions/Google Now vs Samsung S Voice.

• Kudos to Apple for kicking it off with Siri, but shame on Apple for so quickly allowing its competitors to get ahead.
• Kudos to Android for the speech technology devt. It’s really great, but Android – get a clue and hire some marketing people: Apple and Samsung have kicked your butt in branding the speech technology.  I still don’t know what to call it!
• Kudos to Samsung for being first to have an always listening feature that worked!! You can’t stop there… Moto is beating you to the punch in a low power version and in the simple “trigger to search” flow with voice.

What about Microsoft and Amazon? Both have good cloud based recognition engines in house but neither seem particularly relevant in Mobile…YET!

Kudos to Microsoft for its always listening feature in XBox! It’s actually the best implementation I’ve seen that doesn’t use Sensory technology. I’ll blog more about how they do it and why they can’t do a low power implementation in the weeks ahead.