Throughout this year, without a doubt, a sector that has evolved considerably for the better, and that has been reaching greater popularity, is that of virtual assistants, well, little by little, and thanks mainly to the help of smart speakers, where the Apple HomePod, the Google Home and the Amazon Echo mainly stand out, they have been sold more and more.
However, the truth is that some of them still have a long way to go, since the artificial intelligence they use is not so advanced and that is why they are not able to answer so many questions exactly, and for this reason every so often they are they are making comparisons, since as the assistants themselves are located in the cloud, They have feature updates constantly, something that has benefited the HomePod a lot, as we will see.
This is how the HomePod is positioned in front of the other speakers with respect to its intelligence
In this case, like it already happened At the beginning of the year, from the team of Wolf Ventures have been in charge of making a most complete comparison, in which they ask the same questions to the HomePod, the Google Home, the Amazon Echo and the Microsoft devices, in order to see the performance and the correct answers that provide, respectively, Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, and Cortana.
The results in question are quite satisfactory, since they make us realize the true evolution that this sector has undergone in recent years, but Siri on the HomePod is undoubtedly surprising enough, since it has increased its performance considerably since the beginning of the year, since in the last test that was carried out, it only reached around 52% correct answers, and has managed to increase this by more than 20%, reaching almost 75% of the correct answers. More specifically, they are all positioned such that:
| Assistant | Correct answers | Understanding |
|---|---|---|
| Google Assistant | 87.9% | 100% |
| Crab | 74.6% | 99.6% |
| Alexa | 72.5% | 99.0% |
| Cortana | 63.4% | 99.4% |
Google Home continued with the award-winning first prize, correctly answering 86% of the questions asked and understanding all 800. The HomePod answered 75% correctly and did not understand only 3, while the Amazon Echo correctly answered 73% of the questions and did not understand 8 of them, and finally Cortana answered correctly to 63% of them and only did not understand 5 questions.
In this way, as you may have seen, Google continues with the award for the best smart speaker, since Google Assistant is the most balanced of them all, being the one that is able to understand and answer the most questions correctly, but this is no surprise since it has been known for a long time. The interesting thing is that, although it is true that he does not overcome it, the HomePod also performed very well, answering a multitude of questions well, and above all it is also curious to see, as we mentioned before, the degree to which Apple has increased the capabilities of Siri for this device in such a short time.
Now, where we really do see a change in terms of the form of understanding, is when we see the results filtered by categories, since the study also includes it. In this way, as you can see with the graph below, Although it is true that Google Assistant reigns in almost all aspects, the truth is that Siri is quite close in some of them, and we even see that in terms of the basic commands, the Google Home are left with only 73% of hits, while the HomePod reaches a higher percentage reaching up to 85%:
Google Home has the upper hand in four of the five categories, but falls short of Siri in the command category. The leadership of the HomePod in this category may be due to the fact that the HomePod uses SiriKit technology to work with some commands, such as those related to messaging, settings and, basically, anything other than music, connecting to it many times to an iOS device paired with the speaker. Siri on iPhone has deep integration with email, calendar, messaging, and other areas of interest in the basic commands category. Additionally, our question set also contains a wealth of music-related queries, which HomePod specializes in.
Be that as it may, most of the speakers in question are quite spectacular, and that is why you buy the one you buy will have better responses in some topics or others, but in the same way, both the Google Home and the HomePod, as well as any of those that integrate Amazon's Alexa, are great devices, and in the same way they should correctly answer the most common questions you want to ask them.
