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Post by warp »

ssdspoimdsjvv wrote: post #174
colejohnson66 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Siri is hit and miss, but setting timers (for cooking) always works. > Hey Siri, set a timer for 8 minutes. > Ok. 8 minutes and counting.

It's 2020 and that's still everything virtual assistants are good for. It's kind of sad, really.

I've had great success with the Google smart speaker with "Hey Google, turn off the Living Room TV".

I do have to specify "Living Room TV", even though the speaker and chromecast are configured to be in the same room, it still just turns off a bedroom tv if I'm not specific about which tv.

Also "Hey Google, turn off the Xbox" works, because I linked that at some point.

So not just timers! ;)

Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

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Post by crtasm »

the_af wrote: post #52
renewiltord wrote: post #5

My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the force…

Most "Ok Google" assistance feels like a gimmick to me, but here's something very simple I'd love to have working: I watch a lot of YouTube on my phone when cooking, I even built a cardboard stand for my phone for this reason. What I want is for YT to respond to these voice commands: - Pause video. - Play video. - Rewind 10 seconds. - Skip the (expletive) ad Sadly, this doesn't work. And it's the only voice assistanc…

> Skip the (expletive) ad

OK Google, install Newpipe.apk

Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

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Post by Kye »

hadlock wrote: post #159
gorkish wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my experience with any 'smart assistant' product that is or ever has been. It's always frustrating but never particularly hard to find the special incantation that will invoke it to do the thing that you want it to. Overall though it's simply not worth the effort which is probably why I end up using these overwhelmingly complex devices only for their most mundane functions like timers and getting the weather.…

My issue is that I found out the special incantations two years ago, and then they changed (I presume) something about the core language processing logic, and now none of that works. For example I have Philips Hue lights behind the TV/Screen on my living room wall, and I use their "color loop" behind the screen when watching movies etc. The problem is that "TV", "Television" and "Screen" are semi-protected words, so…

I get this trying to make reminders to add things to the grocery list with Siri. Siri always intercepts it and says "There is no 'Grocery' list. Would you like to make one?"

But I already have a grocery list and a process for it. I just want a reminder to add something to it.

Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

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Post by aylmao »

cwkoss wrote: post #165
princevegeta89 wrote: post #151

"OK Google" is the biggest problem I find with Google Home and Google Assistant so far. Things like "Alexa" and "Siri" are short and seem more practical. When I say "Ok Google", I feel like doing a mouth-exercise. And multiply this extra effort over the number of times you need to apply it in a single session. It is a pain. Why didn't Google ever change it?!

Privacy. Alexa and Siri get triggered unintentionally very frequently in normal conversation.

I agree it's harder to accidentally trigger it, but I doubt the reasoning behind it is "Privacy".

Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

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Post by quesera »

discardedrefuse wrote: post #60
jjulius wrote: post #25

Vaguely reminiscent of when Marco V released a track called "C:\ del *.mp3"[0] out of frustration towards mp3 rips. Still amusing to me that he didn't quite get the command right. [0] https://www.discogs.com/MarcoV-Cdelmp3-Solarize/release/1334...

The other day a song called S01E02.Return.Of.The.Arsonist.720p.HDTV.x264 by Blood Command appeared in my Spotify Discover Weekly. I thought someone messed up, but no...that's the name of song!

Mr. Robot episode names are also fun:

    "eps1.9_zer0-day.avi" 
    "shutdown -r" 
    "404 Not Found"
Etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mr._Robot_episodes

Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

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Post by SamBam »

adwww wrote: post #218
dyingkneepad wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Google Keep for that :). Share it with my wife, we both have the widget in our phone desktops (or whatever the home screen is called). Works very nice.

Not if you're a paying google apps customer. Then OK Google is even more crippled and won't work with Keep.

Oh, God, I have a google apps account on my phone, along-side my regular one, and I once spent three days trying to debug an issue where OK Google had become super-crippled, only to find out it had somehow switched to using my other account.

Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

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Post by Kye »

reaperducer wrote: post #31
renewiltord wrote: post #5

My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the force…

It keeps playing a song called "My Likes" Meanwhile, here in Siri Land... Me: Hey, Siri, add "tomatoes" to my Groceries list. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapredu…

I had a similar problem where I wanted a reminder to add something to a grocery list outside Apple's ecosystem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25280410

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Post by JadoJodo »

reaperducer wrote: post #31
renewiltord wrote: post #5

My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the force…

It keeps playing a song called "My Likes" Meanwhile, here in Siri Land... Me: Hey, Siri, add "tomatoes" to my Groceries list. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapreducer. Which list should I add it to? Me: Groceries. Siri: OK, Reapredu…

Similarly on Android...

Me: Ok, Google. Remind me to leave at 1 O'Clock.

Google: Ok. Do you want to save this?

Me: Yes.

Google: Shows Google search results for "yes" and tosses the reminder.

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Post by vineyardmike »

cgb223 wrote: post #12
renewiltord wrote: post #5

My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the force…

My Google Assistant (on Sonos) will somehow always play the wrong version of the song. Ask for War Pigs? Here’s the live version Ask for a Come Sail Away? Here’s a terrible cover Ask for Magic Stick? Here’s an instrumental I swear it just picks the version of the song that pays the least royalties and plays that instead of the right one...

I have a friend that works for one of the major assistants not made in MountainView... there is explicit logic where it looks if the song title includes "live | cover | instrumental | etc" and tries to find a new version.
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