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

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Post by reaperducer »

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.

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

The thing I use Siri most for is "Hey, Siri. Tell me a joke."

My dream job is to work at Apple compiling jokes for Siri to belch out on demand.

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Post by snaily »

gorkish wrote: post #36
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…

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.…

A UI with next to zero discoverability and an incredibly broad input set ("all speech") must really work for most conceivable inputs, or only die-hard enthusiasts will keep trying.

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Post by reaperducer »

Macha wrote: post #185
dkonofalski wrote: post #140

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I wonder what the difference is. I not only am able to add stuff to my Groceries list 100% of the time but I also have multiple shopping lists so I can say "Add x to my Amazon list" or "Add x to my Costco list" and never have an issue.

I suspect the difference is "Is your accent common in the bay area?"

Tim Cook must hate Siri.

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Post by gambiting »

barbecue_sauce wrote: post #271
kaibee wrote: post #251

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I agree. Google is collecting all of this data, but every time I'm going to Wegmans, "hey google, navigate to wegmans", its always, "I FOUND SEVERAL OPTIONS, WHICH WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO TO?". And in what is apparently always a surprise, I always want to go to closest Wegmans.

If you've been to Wegmans multiple times, why do you need to keep asking Google how to get there?

I know how to get to work, and yet I enter it into my satnav every day because it then avoids traffic.

TomTom had this solved eons ago - my TomTom 5000 from 2014 automatically sets destination as work when I get in the car in the morning, and home when I'm done with work. And it learns my schedule per day, so it doesn't do that on the weekends, or if I need to pop out somewhere at lunch. Such a simple feature from 6 years ago works better than anything that Google can seemingly come up with.

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Post by acqq »

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…

Burnistoun

Voice Recognition Elevator - ELEVEN!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNuFcIRlwdc

First aired in 2009

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

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Post by lucasgonze »

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 take a photo of the fridge and pantry and use it to not rebuy anything, and otherwise just improvise when I'm at the store.

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Post by BurningFrog »

echelon wrote: post #56

YouTube Music is so bad. Comically bad. I had an amazing indie music discovery service in Google Play Music. I found so many fantastic underplayed artists, and it helped me explore all the small music venues in my city. I've got a wall full of signed albums from artists I discovered with Google Play Music. YouTube music recommends Britney Spears . It's so awfully wrong about my tastes. It also randomly inserts YouTub…

Google's real business is search and ads.

Everything else are hobby side projects.

Like the rich dude who can self finance that metal album he always wanted to record.

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

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Post by Kaze404 »

rorykoehler wrote: post #269
Kaze404 wrote: post #172

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It's incredibly handy when cooking. "Hey Google set up a 15 minutes timer", "Hey Google how many teaspoons is in a cup?", etc while you have your hands dirty / busy.

That’s an awful trade off.

How is it a trade off? You can use it for the things it's good at, and not use it for the things it sucks at. Seems fine to me.
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