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Voice assistants have always been a half complete product. They were shown off as a cool feature, then they were never integrated so they were useful. The two
by ecshafer 3y ago
Voice assistants have always been a half complete product. They were shown off as a cool feature, then they were never integrated so they were useful.
The two biggest features I want are for the voice assistants to read something for me, and to do something on google/Apple Maps hand free. Neither of these ever work. “Siri/ ok google add the next gas station on the route” or “take me to the Chinese restaurant in Hoboken” seem like very obvious features for a voice assistant with a map program.
The other is why can I tell Siri to bring up the Wikipedia page for George Washington but I can’t have Siri read it to me? I am in the car, they know that, they just say “I can’t show you that while you’re driving”. The response should be “do you want me to read it to you?”
- Gunnerhead 3y agoIn the current world: Me: “OK Google, take me to the Chinese restaurant in Hoboken” Google Assistant: “Calling Jessica Hobkin”.
- dieselgate 3y agoThis reminds me of ordering at a drive through with a human at times: "I'd like an iced tea" "An icee?" "No an iced tea" "Hi-C?"
- TeMPOraL 3y agoYou forgot the third brand name. The pattern for current world's voice assistants is: ${brand 1}, ${action} ${brand 2} ${joiner} ${brand 3}. So, "OK Google, take me to Chinese restaurant in Hoboken using Google Maps". Which is why I refuse to use this technology until the world gets its shit together.
- jefftk 3y ago> ok google add the next gas station on the route I say "ok google, add a stop for gas" a lot, and it works well for me.
- throeaaysn 3y ago[dead]
- bobsmooth 3y agoSometimes google assistant will answer a query I thought for sure it would fail on with a really good answer and other times it will fail the most basic of commands. It's frustrating.