The HomePod is now available in Spain, and the Amazon Echo can already be reserved to get it from October 30. With their respective virtual assistants, Siri and Alexa, speaking Spanish without any problem, it is time to put them face to face.
We analyze the "smart" functions of the speakers, leaving aside their characteristics as a speaker, since the differences in this aspect are obvious, as well as their price. But we want to see how Siri and Alexa behave, how they respond to the same commands, and see if the differences between the two assistants are as many as many claim. And there is no better way to do it than to see them both in action.
Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant, the war between the three virtual assistants is very much alive, and there are many who maintain that Apple is lagging behind with its assistant. We tested the highlights in this video to see if this is true: access to calendars, internet information, traffic and route information, weather information, music playback, news, podcasts, nearby cinemas and movie times ... all this and much more is part of the examination we have submitted to HomePod and to the Amazon Echo.
I do not want to draw conclusions in this article, you yourself will be the one who puts the note. Leaving aside its capabilities as a speaker, where there is no doubt that the HomePod literally sweeps the Echo (there is the difference in price), everyone who watches the video and judges which of the two is more intelligent. It is clear that they are two similar products but focused on different users. One is the perfect closing of the circle of the entire Apple ecosystem, the other is Amazon's attempt to enter every home, but which is smarter?
It seemed curious to me since I had never heard the Amazon speak, echo, that the voice is much more human and not as robotized as in the HomePod and that it says the hours like 14:30 p.m., not 2 p.m. like the HomePod