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80% of my home voice assistant requests really need no response other than an affirmative sound effect.
100% agree. I dont want a Yes, Got it, Will do or even worse, I have turned on the Bedroom Light. I want soft success ding or a low failure boop.
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80% of my home voice assistant requests really need no response other than an affirmative sound effect.
100% agree. I dont want a Yes, Got it, Will do or even worse, I have turned on the Bedroom Light. I want soft success ding or a low failure boop.
if i imagine constant dinging whenever i enter a room and the motion sensor toggles the light innit i'd go mad
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80% of my home voice assistant requests really need no response other than an affirmative sound effect.
100% agree. I dont want a Yes, Got it, Will do or even worse, I have turned on the Bedroom Light. I want soft success ding or a low failure boop.
An affirmative beep but the light does not turn on means you have to guess what did.
Their first version is most likely already 10x better than Siri. > Understands when it is in a particular area and does not ask “which light?” when there is only one light in the area, but does correctly ask when there are multiple of the device type in the given area.
One of my favorite episodes: I set 2 timers for the same thing somehow. I then tried to cancel one of them. >“Siri, cancel the second timer” “You have 2 timers running, would you like me to cancel one of them?” >“Yes” “Yes is an English rock band from the 70s…” >“Siri, please cancel the timer with 2 minutes and 10 seconds on it” “Would you like me to cancel the timer with 2 minutes and 8 seconds on it?” >“Yes” “Yes i…
Their first version is most likely already 10x better than Siri. > Understands when it is in a particular area and does not ask “which light?” when there is only one light in the area, but does correctly ask when there are multiple of the device type in the given area.
For me, Siri on either phone or watch is pretty much perfect - I don’t ask for much, mostly timers or making reminders.
Google’s Nest Minis though? “Lights on” has a 50/50 shot of being a song of the same name, or similar name, or totally unrelated name. Same for “lights off”. If I don’t annunciate “play rain sounds” clearly enough I get an album called “Rain Songs” that is very much NOT calming for bed time. It doesn’t help that none of these understand that if I whisper a command, it should respond quietly - honestly the siris and nests and alexas all got like one iteration and then stopped it feels like.
I want more features but less LLM. I want more control, and more predictability. Eg if every night around 1am I say “play rain sounds” my god just learn that I’m not, in all likelihood, asking to hear an album I’ve never listened to!
- Wake word detection isn't as good as the Google Homes (more false positives, more false negatives - so I can't just tune sensitivity).
- Mic and speakers are both of poor quality in comparison to Google Home devices.
- Flow is awkward. On a Google Home device, you can say "Okay Google, turn on the lights" with no pause. On the Voice PE, you have to say "Hey Mycroft [awkward pause while you wait for the acknowledgement noise] turn on the lights" - it seems like the Google Home devices start buffering immediately after the wake word, but the Voice PE doesn't.
- Voice fingerprints don't exist, so this prevents the device from figuring out that two separate people are talking, or who is talking to it.
- The device has poor identification of background noise, so if you talk to it while there is a TV playing speech in the background, it will continue to listen to the speech from the TV. It will eventually transcribe everything you said + everything from the TV and get confused. (This probably folds into the voice print thing as well.)
On the upside, though:
- Setting it up was really easy.
- All of the entities I want to control with it are already available, without needing to export them or set them up separately in Google Home.
- Despite all of the above complaints, the device is probably 80-90% of what I realistically need to use it day-to-day. If they throw a better speaker and mic array in, I'd likely be comfortable replacing all of my Google Homes.
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100% agree. I dont want a Yes, Got it, Will do or even worse, I have turned on the Bedroom Light. I want soft success ding or a low failure boop.
why would you want an audio notification for a light? it either turns on and it worked or it doesnt turn on. i see no value in having a ding or anything of the kind if i imagine constant dinging whenever i enter a room and the motion sensor toggles the light innit i'd go mad