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

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

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Post by Narretz »

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…

Reminds me of this voice command skecth I've watched recently (careful, loud): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n-GAd33jew Especially, since the problem wasn't the voice command in your case.

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

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Post by thesimon »

StavrosK wrote: post #101
baskire wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The forced transition was the final nail in the coffin to de-google myself. Even Gmail, can’t trust that it won’t be deprecated in the future.

Yeah but Gmail is one of the easiest things to leave (if you have your own domain). There are high-quality alternatives and moving is a half hour of work. Leaving YouTube is nigh impossible.

> high-quality alternatives

any examples?

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Post by faebi »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #47
reaperducer wrote: post #31

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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…

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 used to be like this for me too. Recently I can‘t use siri anymore when the ventilation is already running. After I said my sentence it keeps listening to the noise forever until it gives up, even though it understood my first sentence perfectly.

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

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Post by cwkoss »

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.

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Post by dylan604 »

ajmurmann wrote: post #160
twicetwice wrote: post #138

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Children are really really smart—just not yet as smart as adults.

I think children are probably at least as smart as adults, but are missing assumed context on almost everything. Maybe the same is the real problem with smart assistance?

This is what I was thinking. If you stop a second to think about it from their perspective, it can make more sense. (I know in 2020 it is unheard of to think about something from a different point of view than one's own.) Even real-life human beings in the assistant role get things wrong as they interpret the original request not as intended.

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Post by StavrosK »

thesimon wrote: post #162
StavrosK wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but Gmail is one of the easiest things to leave (if you have your own domain). There are high-quality alternatives and moving is a half hour of work. Leaving YouTube is nigh impossible.

> high-quality alternatives any examples?

I personally love Fastmail, I hear Protonmail is good too.

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Post by craftinator »

fullstop wrote: post #73
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…

I have endless frustrations with Google Assistant / Google Now / Whatever they call it now. A few examples: 1. I have my phone set up to trust bluetooth in my car and unlock my phone. I get in the car and say "okay google, open spotify" -- this is so that it will continue playing what I was listening to before I left work. "Okay", she says, and then tells me that she can't do that because my screen is locked. Sometim…

> 5. Commands which have worked for months suddenly stop working.

This is my biggest gripe. Whatever magic voodoo ML they use is inconsistent, and it's not clear what level of abstraction this inconsistency is happening in.

What I want is the reliability of Google Assistant's speech to text parsing, combined with a firm, customizable interface. Something like If This Then That, where there are some default commands with a clear reliable command pattern: "send message to George Orwell, we live in your book", and commands can be added.

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

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Post by the-dude »

renewiltord wrote: post #121
the-dude wrote: post #108

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Did you try please? or tangential for me?

Haha, I'm scared it'll say "I'm afraid I can't do that, Rene" and break the illusion of who the master is and who the slave is.

I would expect it to ask you to take out the trash first.
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