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

• 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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      • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Whatever you need to tell yourself.

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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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