• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Damn voice assistants are going to be our memory of the 2010s like car phones were to the 80s.

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        11 months ago

        Me: Play Whitehorse the band
        Google Assistant: Playing Whitehorse the song by some other guy
        Me: No, play Whitehorse the Canadian band
        Google Assistant: Playing Whitehorse the album by a third guy
        Me: Play Achilles Desire
        Google Asistant: Playing Whitehorse

        Me: Play Tu vuò fà l’americano on Spotify
        Google Assistant: !?!?!?!?

        Me: Play Laisse tomber les filles
        Google Assistant: !?!?!?

        Me: Play Les Cowboys Fringants on Spotify
        Google Assistant: !?
        Me: Play Les Cowboys F R I N G A N T S
        Google Assistant: Playing Les Cowboys Fringants

        I only ever use those junky voice assistants when driving, and they are useless half the time

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          11 months ago

          Me: Turn on the kitchen

          Alexa: I’m sorry, what device?

          Me: KITCHEEEEEEN

          It used to work flawlessly for every room in my house, and then a few months ago it just started doing that stupid “what device?” shit.

          Not only are voice assistants not improving, they’re actively getting worse.

      • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Every time I try anything other than the most basic things, like setting a timer, it just fails miserably. It would be so useful for hands free operation in the car but even things like calling or navigating are broken beyond belief.

        • BeMoreCareful@lemdro.id
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          11 months ago

          Talking faster is one of the more helpful hints I ever got.

          But never try to get your car to play phonk, it’ll just play you some funk. Which is cool too, but not what I was going for.

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            11 months ago

            I’ll try it but honestly at this point I don’t see any hope for it anymore, when the difference between the name Karolina and Carolina is enough to confuse it. Like, I give it first and last name and it says it can’t find it even though it heard the name just fine but decided its written with a C instead of a K, so it doesn’t exist in my contacts.

        • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          Sounds like a personal problem. Maybe language. It works very well for most of my peers. I rarely have issues with friends and family.