It’s struggling torespond to simple questionsor create simple calendar events.
Meanwhile, Perplexity AI’s new Voice Assistant is here now, trying to capitalize on Apple’s mess.
It can hold conversations, and even perform some web-based tasks.
These are things that Siri just can’t do, at least not yet.
In the Ask Anything bar, you’ll see an animatedWaveformicon to the right.
That’s the shortcut to the Voice Assistant.
Simply tap on it and start speaking.
Perplexity will show an animation when you’re speaking, and when it’s responding to you.
There’s also an option toMutethe microphone for longer chats.
Tap theGearicon up top for options.
Here, you could suspend the transcript feature, or enable a push to talk mode.
you might also change the Assistant’s voice.
Drafting an email shows a stark difference between the two approaches.
My experience with text messaging was more iffy.
Hopefully, this is a day-one issue and gets sorted out later on.
Perplexity’s Voice Assistant can also play music directly from Apple Music, using voice commands.
And because Perplexity integrates with YouTube, it’s quite quick when finding YouTube videos.
It simply doesn’t need to ask follow-up questions.
This is great for asking general questions, and for learning things.
I had to confirm the details, and finish the booking myself.
Siri is sometimes great, and sometimes it just doesn’t respond.
Perplexity takes care of that issue.
Of course, there were times with Perplexity ran into a wall, like with my text messaging question.
Hopefully, these small issues will get sorted out with more updates.
