I think it's fair to say that his opinion of Android Voice Commands vs Siri is far from universal. Nuance's voice recognition is widely regarded as state-of-the-art, but of course this can vary depending on one's accent. There's a pretty fair shootout on the "commands" features here, and Siri generally comes ahead - http://searchengineland.com/head-to-head-siri-vs-google-voic...
Not just accent. The amount of sample data they have seems to matter a lot too.
Google voice works much better now than it did when it was first released. But it's still fairly easy to find a phrase that it will mess up. For example the names of craft beer breweries and the names of their beers. The individual words it will recognise fine. Put them together and it just fails.
The article you cite is from October, which I assume means it compares the 4S to Android 3.x. Judging by the screenshots, its also on a non-Nexus phone, for what its worth.
The voice command functions and interface were completely overhauled in Ice Cream Sandwich.
Where do you see that? I saw that Google's speech-to-text now updates the text inline, definitely a nice feature, but no changes to the voice actions (it still operates on static, specific commands) or anything in the ballpark of Siri's interface.
I think it's fair to say that his opinion of Android Voice Commands vs Siri is far from universal. Nuance's voice recognition is widely regarded as state-of-the-art, but of course this can vary depending on one's accent. There's a pretty fair shootout on the "commands" features here, and Siri generally comes ahead - http://searchengineland.com/head-to-head-siri-vs-google-voic...