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I'm constantly dealing with the phone interpreting commands intended for a Google Home speaker, which sometimes results in both the speaker and the phone acting on the same command. To my dismay, there's no way to disable Hey Google recognition on the phone after it's been enabled.
Perhaps someone here has run into this issue as well? It's a huge pain point for me.
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I get updates every 30 days. Do they expire if you don’t update?
Yes
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Google Maps has an excellent offline mode on iOS and Android. I wish Apple Maps had that too.
It's one of those features that makes one think... Why am I being notified about this at all? Can't this be taken care of without my input?
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Citation?
There is this new type of trolling where someone just puts in bare minimal counterarguments and asks for citations knowing full well it's labour intensive to do so. If your not trolling.. your not doing a good job of avoiding these comparisons. The onus should be on you here to provide citations first that dissprove the person your replying to.
At the risk of being downvoted, any Pixel users enable "Hey Google" recognition on their phones only to regret it? I'm constantly dealing with the phone interpreting commands intended for a Google Home speaker, which sometimes results in both the speaker and the phone acting on the same command. To my dismay, there's no way to disable Hey Google recognition on the phone after it's been enabled. Perhaps someone here h…
"But it’s sort of funny considering hardly any of Google’s other products work offline. Are you going to dictate into a shared document while you’re offline? Write an email? Ask for a conversion between liters and cups? You’re going to need a connection for that!" While offline, you might write email drafts, your blog, or even a book: https://medium.com/@augustbirch/what-i-learned-writing-an-en... What's missing is t…
Call me cynical but I cannot picture Google not tapping into everything you run through their voice recognition software, even if it does work offline. Doesn't mean it won't phone home later.
For what? They only really make their money on ads for things you're actively searching for. Everything else they have in ads works rather poorly in the text world. Trying to interpret interests out of task-driven voice commands is way beyond their capabilities. But, enough of that. I'm holding out until decent voice dictation is standard everywhere and a well understood engineering problem with good open source impl…
Hmm, is this how the "what song is playing" feature works? Google claims it works offline (I haven't tested it) but I have a hard time believing that Google is storing information related to every song out there. What about new songs?
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For what? They only really make their money on ads for things you're actively searching for. Everything else they have in ads works rather poorly in the text world. Trying to interpret interests out of task-driven voice commands is way beyond their capabilities. But, enough of that. I'm holding out until decent voice dictation is standard everywhere and a well understood engineering problem with good open source impl…
You might be waiting a while. The problem you describe - with GPS - is an acoustic modeling problem, and a very difficult one at that. Cars come in many shapes and make lots of odd noises and various speeds, not to mention these devices are mounted in many places in relation to the speaker.