Comment on Self-hosted voice assistant with mobile app

• artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  LOL they can’t even reliably turn the lights on, WTF are you talking about?

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    maybe last you tried it was over 6 months ago, maybe you’re using the old google assistant, or idk, but it definitely works for me

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Everything I’ve read says Gemini is like 10x worse than Google Assistant.

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s gotten better. Which is to say, it’s almost feature compatible with the old assistant. But you can also give it context. So for example, if you say “remind me X”, you can get it to automatically remind you tomorrow with an alert at 9am, unless you specify a different time. And it’s ok if you screw up the phrasing a bit.

        But DIY is infinitely better. If you have the resources.

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      • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        so you haven’t tried it recently

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    • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Heh, I’ve actually moved away from using Google Home stuff because it’s shoving Gemini down my throat and it’s been worse in the last six months than it was a year ago.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Using Home Assistant with Qwen locally. It functions better than any version of Google Home I’ve had. Understands me without having to think about how I say things. Can ask it for one or multiple things at the same time. Can even make it so that it pretends to be Santa Claus while responding. My wife was ecstatic when she heard the Ho-ho-ho while asking to turn the coffee machine on on Christmas.

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