Microsoft's Tellme vs. Apple Siri

Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie compared Apple's Siri app to Microsoft's TellMe service earlier this week.

The comparisons drew inevitable criticisms after Mundie claimed most of the functionality had been in Windows Phone for a year. Whilst his comments were accurate in some regards, the implementation of both systems is vastly different. The comparison between the two was highlighted in great detail on Friday after Australian blog TechAu posted a seemingly unfair comparison between the two devices.



The video above mainly featured commands that Microsoft TellMe does not currently understand. Microsoft's Tellme technology is more of a command driven feature of Windows Phone right now but the company has plans to improve this in future. Microsoft’s future Tellme speech recognition is a lot more personal and more aligned with Apple’s Siri features. Microsoft demonstrated some of its future speech recognition in Windows Phone in August. A video demonstration (see below) shows off a much improved speech interface that will work across devices.



Via Winrumor