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How is Google VA with background noise. I will renew my phone soon and am between the Pixel and the iPhone 7 (but I hate the absence of the headphone jack and d

• throwaway729 10y ago
  Hard to quantify. Some specific scenarios: - It won't work in a loud bar - It will almost always work in a car where you're the driver and there's a backseat conversation or the radio is on. - It's fine with street/sidewalk noise. - Not-terribly-loud coffee shops, stores, etc. are also usually just fine.
• RugnirViking 10y ago
  An anecdote: is that recently I was in a noisy restaurant with an open kitchen (think loud steam blasts and fryers and servers yelling out order numbers) and showing an older friend how far voice recognition had come and it successfully got most of our queries first try and if not, every time second try. This is with English language and asking it to play specific songs. We also have something of a strong accent compared to the san-fran types that presumably trained it (northern England)