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I use my voice assistant on my phone to set timers. That's it.
by coldcode 6y ago
I use my voice assistant on my phone to set timers.
That's it.
- maneesh 6y agoWeather is also useful! Sometimes reminders, which are basically timers. But yea that's it.
- GloriousKoji 6y agoSiri doesn't get the weather right. "What's the weather in Yosemite" and "Yosemite weather" can get you two drastically different results. As of right now (10/26/2020 10:35 AM) the two results I get are 43F and 32F.
- maneesh 6y agoSiri is always mistaken. Alexa is pretty good.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoAlexa is super easy to make a skill for (IIRC it's one XML/JSON file hosted somewhere and registered with Amazon). So you could probably make your own with ~IFTTT to scrape the data. Alexa has "daily briefing" which will then go through a list of skills which can include your own [public] skills. I made an "and finally ..." to add funny news to the end of the daily briefing and was super impressed how easy it was.
- bserge 6y agoThe other day, I wanted it to open an app and start recording when I say "Hey Google, take a voice note"... but no dice :/
- martyvis 6y agoJust say "Hey Google, open Live Transcribe" (assuming you had that app installed)
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoThis highlights part of the problem. Google sell/advertise products for companies but people want to use tools. People want "[wake word], [action] [modifiers]". Companies want "[trademark product] [trademark product] [modifiers]" (eg the parents example "Hey Google (RTM), Live Transcribe (RTM) 'words to transcribe'"). I've only used Alexa (and only for fun) but the replacement of verbs with companies/products, and of nouns with proper nouns, is really annoying to me and gets in the way IMO.