Voice-powered devices become useful in smart home application. Apple 's Echo is reportedly no better than Google Now or Amazon 's Echo at speech recognition, but can help with in-home general purpose computing like asking about the weather, sharing a grocery list and controlling lights. Echo doesn’t nail recognition or have anywhere near a 100 percent success rate, and because of my home layout it strains to hear me when I’m also using my tabletop fan, but even these weaknesses don’t really detract from its overall usefulness. Siri still lacks compatibility with competitors's platforms such as Gmail or iMessage.
Voice-powered devices become useful in smart home application. Apple 's Echo is reportedly no better than Google Now or Amazon 's Echo at speech recognition, but can help with in-home general purpose computing like asking about the weather, sharing a grocery list and controlling lights. Siri still lacks compatibility with competitors's platforms such as Gmail or iMessage.