Digital personal assistants put to the test

With Apple rumoured to be close to unveiling a Siri smart speaker to rival Google Home and Amazon Echo, a recent study shows that the current crop of smart assistants may not be so smart after all

QUESTIONS ANSWERED VERBALLY?

All have option of responding on-screen only (if being used on cell phone for
example) and each of them did so on numerous occasions

60%
40
20

Siri (Apple)

Google Assistant on Google Home

Cortana (Microsoft)

Alexa on Amazon Echo

Smart speaker: Connected wirelessly to internet, device takes verbal inputs and controls smart appliances in home


TOP FIVE USES FOR SMART SPEAKER (U.S. households, Q1 2017)

General questions 60%
Weather forecast 57%
Stream music 54%
Timers / alarms 41%
Reminders / to do 39%

CREAM OF THE CROP

Google Assistant on Google Home 68.1% 90.6%

Cortana (Microsoft) 56.5%  81.9%

Siri (Apple) 21.7% 62.2%

Alexa on Amazon Echo 20.7% 87.0%

Questions answered

100% complete and correct *

*Questions were required to be answered fully and directly. Very few queries answered by personal assistants were overtly wrong

Google Home, $129

Sources: Stone Temple, com Score, MacRumors, Google Picture: GE Appliances