LG’s Quick Voice Aims to Out-Blab Apple’s Siri, Samsung’s S Voice

LG is launching a Siri competitor called Quick Voice. Photo: LG Electronics

Having conversations with our mobile devices is going to become much more commonplace.

First on the built-in, voice-activated personal-assistant scene was Siri, currently found in the iPhone 4S and now destined for the latest iPad. Next came S Voice, a Siri rival (that we still can’t get to work correctly) on the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S III. Then on Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it’s working to build conversational voice technology into Windows Phone 8.

And now we have a fresh development from LG. Sometime in the next few weeks, the company’s Android phones will join the talking-gadget party too. LG is launching Quick Voice, its own built-in voice-commanded assistant app that will (like Siri and S Voice) tell you what the weather is like, remind you of upcoming calendar appointments, help you dictate and send text messages, and even pull up the YouTube video you’re looking for.

LG said Quick Voice will be able to handle commands using “natural language processing” to keep all your conversations, well, conversational. With Siri, the results have so far been mixed. And with Samsung’s S Voice, we couldn’t get the feature to work at all.

LG hasn’t yet said if Quick Voice will make it to any of its US Android handsets (LG makes Windows Phones too). For now, Quick Voice is planned for LG’s Optimus Vu before the end of the month, and the Optimus LTE 2 sometime in July by way of a software update. LG said that when Quick Voice launches, it will be limited to working with 11 built-in apps such as address book, alarm clock, calendar, email, maps, stocks, telephone, weather and online search.

No word yet on what Quick Voice’s opinion of Nokia’s Lumia 900 is.

via The Verge