Accessibility and trendsĪccessibility refers to how many devices the virtual assistant lives on. I constructed questions to test basic understanding as well as contextual understanding and general vocal recognition.

Rather than gauge each assistant’s efficacy based on company-reported features, I spent hours testing each assistant by issuing commands and asking questions that many business users would use. There are four frontrunners in the AI assistant space: Amazon (Alexa), Apple (Siri), Google (Google Assistant) and Microsoft (Cortana). Despite more integration, competition between AI assistants is still stiff, so to save you time and frustration, we did an extensive hands-on test – not to compare speakers against each other, but to compare the AI assistants themselves. In addition to increasing variety, in terms of hardware, devices that support multiple types of AI assistants are becoming more common. When AI assistants first hit the market, they were far from ubiquitous, but thanks to more third-party OEMs jumping on the smart speaker bandwagon, there are more choices for assistant-enabled devices than ever.

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