Siri vs. Alexa, Alexa vs. Siri…
The battle of the assistants in home devices, smartphones and others is not only red hot in between the companies themselves and users who defend one or the other, the battle is also to make an egg to offer their services in the hotels of the Marriott chain, among others. In this case a report of Bloomberg warns of the struggle for supply the most luxurious rooms of this hotel chain with your assistants, Siri or Alexa.
For now and while they are starting to carry out tests with both assistants in one of the hotels that Marriott has in Boston, we must look for the negative parts of both models and these are quite clear. The beginning of the tests is already interesting in itself, and it is that while Siri speaks a good part of the languages, Alexa no, but on the contrary in Siri requires two hardware components to be used and Alexa only the one with the hotel installed in the room.
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In this sense, we talk about several factors to take into account with Siri. On the one hand, if the users themselves use iOS devices and the room has an Apple TV next to it. some HomeKit-compatible equipment, the user can feel at home, but obviously many devices are involved.
In the event that the user does not have an iPhone or iPad, the hotel should provide one so that the client can use it in the room. In favor of Siri we also have the advantage of languages and this is undoubtedly a key part of an assistant, who understands us.
Alexa
There are also several positive and negative points to consider about Alexa. This simplifies the hardware to buy to a single speaker Amazon Echo, but has learned only two languages and this is not good. It does not require a device to use it and it is simple if you speak English or German, allowing us to give orders with our voice. In this way Alexa is also compatible for the use of home automation, HUE by Phillips, WeMo, Smarthings or Insteon are some of the supported systems.
Both cases have their good and bad points, and we are glad that the decision to choose one or the other is not up to us. Although it is clear that having more languages and Homekit can tip the balance towards Siri (more to us who are Apple users) but, What if the guest doesn't have an iPhone or iPad? you, which one do you prefer?
