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Telling my Pixel 8's assistant to "set an alarm for 10 minutes" fails when it's not connected to the internet (after spinning for a few seconds.) That's crazy t
by throitallaway 2y ago
Telling my Pixel 8's assistant to "set an alarm for 10 minutes" fails when it's not connected to the internet (after spinning for a few seconds.) That's crazy to me. I thought offline voice for basic things was working back in the Nexus days.
I travel a lot and often find myself in areas with poor or no connectivity, and things "get a little freaky" in those scenarios. Even things like Google Maps (which has downloaded/offline mode) often fail or spin for 30 seconds. I think Google/Android engineers don't test these scenarios enough (or at all), and they're usually bathed in perfect connections.
- acdha 2y agoSiri seems to be better at the voice recognition in my experience but it has these crazy bugs where I see it perfectly transcribe the text, and then un-correct it into something completely different. Piping the raw text into a 90s Perl script would be better, and it amazes me that the same team can do on-device transcription so much better.
- ikr678 2y agoI dont want to use the voice assistant on my pixel but the function is so baked in that if I connect a headset, despite never setting the assistant up, it will interupt any music or playback after 15 seconds to tell me the assistant is ready now and there is no way to make that message go away or resume my media playing.