Re: Alexa accessibility and our new connected range - was: Alexa app for iPhone

2019-05-26 Thread Richard Turner
by asking Alexa who won today's Indianapolis 500, I got this: Today, Simon Pagenaud won the Indianapolis 500 by 208 milliseconds after taking the lead in the 199th lap. Alexander Rossi finished in 2nd and Takuma Sato finished in 3rd. Check out my web site at:

RE: Alexa accessibility and our new connected range - was: Alexa app for iPhone

2019-05-26 Thread Ekstrand, Pamela A. -ND
I think we can find all kinds of examples where one outshines the other. Today we asked Alexa who won the 2019 Indianapolis 500. She could only tell us who won it in 2018. When I asked SIRI the same question, we got the correct answer. Pam From:

Re: Alexa accessibility and our new connected range - was: Alexa app for iPhone

2019-05-26 Thread Richard Turner
Here is my favorite example concerning Siri VS Alexa. When the college Football bowl games were announced, there was one called the Red Box Bowl. Well, I had never heard of that. No matter how I asked about the Red Box Bowl, Siri would only give me locations of Red Box video rentals near me.

RE: Alexa accessibility and our new connected range - was: Alexa app for iPhone

2019-05-26 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
I agree with Mary, but it is little surprise that Google probably delivers the best answers to the most questions given that their business is entirely information and they do, after all, have probably the best and most integrated access to Google as a search engine. It is truly amazing how

Re: Alexa accessibility and our new connected range - was: Alexa app for iPhone

2019-05-26 Thread Mary Otten
Hi richard, Your experience is very interesting. I freely admit that I often get not very helpful responses from Siri. But if anything, Alexa is worse. I have an echo device, and it’s so bad at giving me general answers to questions I ask that I’ve pretty much given up using it except for

RE: Alexa accessibility and our new connected range - was: Alexa app for iPhone

2019-05-26 Thread Richard Turner
I can see I need to qualify my statement. It works quite well without any kind of Google Speaker and for skills, I haven't gone looking for them as I simply use it when Siri is useless, which happens more than it used to. I can ask the same question of Alexa as Siri and get a very useful answer