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A few years ago when Microsoft was pushing Cortana with Windows 10, I decided that since I was wearing a headset at my desk 90% of the time anyway, I may as wel
by ryankrage77 6y ago
A few years ago when Microsoft was pushing Cortana with Windows 10, I decided that since I was wearing a headset at my desk 90% of the time anyway, I may as well try using a voice assistant so I could multi-task. So next time I needed to do a calculation in the middle of something, I said "hey cortana, what's 50 times 12.5?" while typing something up... and it opened the start menu, lost focus on my window, and the searched for it on Bing in Edge. I just wanted it to read me the answer.
- ryankrage77 6y agoAnother frustrating experience with a voice assistant was with Google Assistant. I was on a train, and I didn't want to miss my stop if I got distracted (as had happened before). Since I had my headphones on, I tried getting Google assistant to notify me when I arrived at my destination. It could not do it, the devs hadn't made a template for this scenario at the time. Nowadays it might work via a location-based reminder, but I can't trust that to work within the 15 second window I have to get off the train.