The video compares Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Samsung Bixby, the four voice assistants, through four rounds of testing to compare who is the best intelligent assistant in 2022.
MKBHD had put out a comparison video of voice assistants in 2017. 5 years later, MKBHD still awarded the best voice assistant to Google Assistant, while Amazon’s Alexa performed the worst. And Siri came in second to last.
In this test Siri mainly had problems handling multiple countdowns. On the HomePod and even the Apple Watch, Siri can set multiple countdowns, while on the iPhone, Siri can only set 1 countdown. In terms of response speed, both Siri and Samsung’s Bixby had lagging answers.
All four assistants are good at answering facts when prompted with specific questions. However, it’s the follow-up questions that give Bixby and Alexa the most headaches. Siri and Assistant were competitive when it came to conversational questioning, but MKBHD’s testing showed that Assistant was able to stick to a longer context than Siri.
Siri also falls short when it comes to device control. Google Assistant and Samsung’s Bixby are able to launch voice recordings and play specific shows on Netflix. siri seems to just launch the relevant apps without taking any further steps.
Siri also didn’t fare well when it came to taking selfies by voice. Google Assistant launched the Camera app and switched to the front-facing camera, and started a countdown before taking a photo. Siri just launched the camera, even though voice control was fully capable of driving the camera app on the iPhone.
