LG announces Quick Voice; aims to compete with S Voice and Siri
Not to be left behind in this new voice assistant race founded by Apple and followed by Samsung, LG has announced its new intelligent voice recognition system called Quick Voice. The company has announced this new service in Korea and chances are that it will be rolled out soon to the Optimus family of smartphones. A couple of voice-based assistants are already available for the Android platform and it seems that LG have come pretty late to the party, but this service is planning on integrating new features, including using it when the phone is turned off, along with increased customisations. While we’ve not reviewed it, we did review Apple’s Siri, and here’s what happened. We tried getting contact information for one of our contacts named ‘Krishna’. So we told Siri, ‘Krishna’ and she came up with a reply saying, ‘I would ask that you address your spiritual questions to someone more qualified to comment. Ideally, a human.’ A big identity faux pas. It does have some difficulty recognising Indian names and we just couldn’t get Siri to give us information on this one in particular. With Siri, there’s still a lot of improvement required. And next time, it would be better, if they’d just leave the ‘Beta Tags’ to Google.’
The in-house app from the Korean smart phone maker is called 'Quick Voice.' And analysts feel that it will directly challenge Apple's Siri and Samsung's S Voice by implementing voice activated features on select Optimus line of smart phones.( Itechpost.com)
Category: Korea
