Becker's Healthcare June 20, 2019
Google Assistant can better detect and comprehend users’ voice requests for information regarding prescription medication than Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri, according to a recent study published in Nature Digital Medicine.
Researchers from Klick Health, a lab company in Toronto, analyzed the ability of digital voice assistants from Google, Amazon and Apple to accurately comprehend brand name and generic name medications of 50 common drugs dispensed in the U.S. The researchers used voice recordings from 46 participants, 12 of which had foreign accents, which voiced the following prompt in English: “Tell me about,” followed by the name of the medication.
Results of the study showed that Google Assistant was able to understand 92 percent of brand name medications and 84...
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