Submitted 1 year ago by user224@lemmy.sdf.org to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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At least I can use Shazam
Yeah, Assistant blows much of the time:
“Hey Google. What’s two plus two?”
“Sorry, I don’t understand. But I found something similar. Would you like to know what two plus two is?”
“Yes, dammit!”
“On the website Add A Couple of Numbers for the Hell of It, they say, two plus two is four. Would you like a little more context?”
“No!!!”
“Alright. I’m here to help.”
Arrgh.
dang that is a VERY weird bug. I’ve never had it, it always worked fine for me, but this is fascinating
This is fascinating by 188.34.203.14.
What do you mean, [Buffering 55%] by Radio Melody is such a banger
Wait til you hear ‘404’ or ‘not available in your country’
It is there to spy, not to assist
I mean, yeah, if you're playing media, it's going to assume that's what you want to identify and will pull from that source, first. Why activate the mic if you don't need it to?
fun fact, audio players don’t typically use sound to get song titles, they use metadata in the file itself, which is how it also gets the artist name, album and track number, among other things
On pixel 2 and 3 this shit was amazing. I never had an issue with Google Assistant absolutely perfect assistant app. Then I got a samsung fold and, despite allegedly being the same app, it sucks all the donkey dick and balls. It’s clearly not the same Assistant, and if it IS then google fucking ruined it.
It struggles recognizing the switch from wifi to data. Getting in my car and giving it commands to play music takes forever because it hangs up with the (now distant and poor) wifi
Commands to call people when I’m outside (walking dog, garden etc) suck for the same reason.
Voice to text is trash. It’s always getting words wrong, mishearing requests, or putting words that I didn’t fucking say. Half of my sentences start with “is” for some reason. “Is I need you to get dog food” like bruhhhh
I thought it was just because Google was punishing samsung users to push Pixels.
This has been happening to me on a Pixel 6 and it’s annoying as hell. Their assistant has devolved
walking dog, garden etc
Your garden can walk? /j
Now Playing is a pixel exclusive feature that works in the background without triggering assistant. It seems like OP is trying to trigger this feature from the foreground? Which I think is a good feature but I doubt Google would let any phone use this cause profit.
Actually, all I wanted it to do is this:
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Which works basically like Shazam. Well, it should, at least.
I think this works by
Wasn’t this a key feature on pixel? Continuous song identification?
It is, and I quite enjoy it.
Does it work like what OP is saying? Based on your response don’t think it is
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Google assistant is useless. I can’t rely on it when I’m driving.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 year ago
It asked me to give a vote on how useful was the interaction. On the screen there was numbers from 1 to 5. I pressed 1 and it searched “1” on Google.
Ten years ago it wasn’t dumb like this…
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Lmao that’s extremely accurate in my experience.
Sometimes I would ask for a destination “let’s go to xyz” and it searched YouTube Music. How???
patman9@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I know exactly what you mean. I use nest hub max for cooking recipes a lot. When I get to the final step there’s a “done” button. I click it and Google says “I’m sorry I don’t know how to help with that” like. What the fuck
SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 1 year ago
Alexa got dumb too. I’ll ask her to turn on the fan and she’ll turn on the fan in another room but telling her to turn off the fan turns off the correct one. I ended up getting a HomePod. Siri may be basic but at least she knows what room she’s in.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
lmao
dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Somehow the assistant manages to instantly turn on and respond any time I don’t need it, but when I do, I have to repeat myself at least 10 times, for a basic question
jcg@halubilo.social 1 year ago
Pretty much the reason I never used it on my last phone. Even went through the steps to have it recognize my voice better, and even when it hears it the first time there’s a 1 second delay before it actually starts listening, which makes me further contemplate why I bothered.