When it comes to healthcare, Google wins battle of voice assistants
Becker's Healthcare July 19, 2022
Google comes out on top as the best voice assistant for answering medical questions and providing accurate information verbally to users, according to a study in the Annals of Family Medicine.
The researchers from Stanford University asked the four main voice assistants of Apple (Siri), Amazon (Alexa), Google and Microsoft (Cortana) a simple medical question about whether the user should get screened for a certain type of cancer. They were then judged on their ability to understand the question, provide accurate information through web searches and then verbally communicate it.
The only voice assistant that did not understand the query was Amazon’s Alexa, which would...