Amazon has had a notoriously hard time making money from Alexa.
    • yildo@kbin.social
      141·
      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

      • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 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.

      • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        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.comEnglish
      42·
      11 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.