Comment on Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI

OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pretty much everyone I know is then daily.

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  • yildo@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨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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    • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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    • isles@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      70% of the time, finding my phone and doing it myself would have been faster than arguing with a dumb speaker. I find them really good for

      • setting timers
      • playing generic music
      • pausing other devices that are playing
      • simple questions like current temperature or forecast

      When I don’t already have my phone in hand.

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      • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You put your phone down?

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    • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      👌👍

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  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Alchemy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Right, you definitely don’t have friends.

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    • BeMoreCareful@lemdro.id ⁨7⁩ ⁨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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      • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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