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

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Post by PurpleFoxy »

ehsankia wrote: post #370
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?!

Is it actually just "Siri" or "hey siri?" How is that much different from "Hey Google", both are 3 syllable. Alexa is too though I agree just saying the name flows better.

I’m no language expert but the difference I can notice is the word Siri comes from the tip of the tongue and feels a lot easier than google where G comes from the back of the mouth and is more awkward.

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Post by three14 »

mynameisash wrote: post #299
eitland wrote: post #205

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I can't understand why I should talk to any of my devices as long as they are as idiotic as they are now and like you describe above doesn't have the slightest idea about how to handle context. That said Siri feels at least 100 times smarter than Google assistant to me, the below are actual (if somewhat anonymized) examples: - Google suggestions when I look at the phone at 5am in the morning: "text random friend of a…

I remember back in ~93, my dad told me that the Mac we had just bought had voice recognition. He warned me -- quite jokingly -- that he had to be careful not to say something like, "mynameisash, please empty the trash" because the computer might hear it and mistakenly delete items in the trash. Almost 30 years later, how many orders of magnitude faster silicon and countless person-hours of research and I can't get my…

Since half this thread gives workarounds, and since I had the same problem, I'll share my workaround: you can tell Google that a particular contact is your wife. There's a "relationship" field in contacts. Now I can say "call my wife" and it mostly works, although saying her name is still hopeless.

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

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Post by PurpleFoxy »

Steltek wrote: post #216
cwkoss wrote: post #165

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

I frequently reply to my kids with "Ok, go $do_a_thing" and I almost always trigger my phone, even if it's in my pocket. The kicker is that I use "Hey Google" when I want the assistant so the "Ok Google" form is not even needed.

This is why I only have Siri enabled on my watch which isn’t listening while the face is dimmed. And yet it still randomly triggers a few times a month

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

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Post by jfengel »

inetknght wrote: post #325
hadlock wrote: post #159

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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 also have Philips Hue. I used to be able to ask Siri: "Hey Siri, please set the lights to green." Then she would obediently set all of the lights to green. Nice, that's my favorite! Then a few months ago some update was pushed (iOS? Apple Home app? Philips Hue app? Philips Hue Basestation OS? No idea) and now that exact phrase (which has worked for two years) suddenly elicits a response: "OK, which room?" -- follow…

Just out of curiosity, why would you want your rooms to be green?

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

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Post by markdog12 »

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.…

It's all just a big charade from these companies, as if they ever work. Billions of dollars made from devices that don't even work, but people buy them because they've been lead to believe they work. They're worse than useless, because they give you hope that they actually do what the companies say they do. What a sham. Maybe in another 10-20 years.

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Post by crazygringo »

acid__ wrote: post #124

I used to come home and say “Ok Google, turn on the lights.” 80% of the time my lights would turn on. 20% of the time, I’d be greeted with: “Ok, playing ‘Turn on the Lights’ by Future on Spotify.” And I’d stand there in the dark, listening to music I don’t like, questioning my life decisions.

I'm genuinely curious if you have any idea --

-- is Google misinterpreting your voice? E.g. does it hear a sound it thinks is "play" in the middle of your phrase?

-- or is it some weird statistical model that because of invisible and irrelevant correlations, sometimes concludes it's more likely you're asking for music? Like the song with that title is currently in the top 40, or was played by you in the past, or something?

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Post by charrondev »

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 just set up some routines with explicit names:

“Hey google, dinner time “ - shut all lights but the kitchen and start a playlist.

“Hey google, tv time” - set all lights to specific colours and turn off any music.

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Post by GauntletWizard »

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #344
kwijibob wrote: post #333

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"Ok, Google" makes everyone hate saying the word "Google". It is now linked to the emotions of frustration and anger forever.

Considering Amazon uses "Alexa" and Apple uses "Siri" and Microsoft uses "Cortana", it is strange that Google opted not to pick an alternative name

They would have had to pay the Roddenberry estate licensing money.

https://www.techspot.com/news/46668-googles-answer-to-siri-m...

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Post by davidwparker »

acid__ wrote: post #124

I used to come home and say “Ok Google, turn on the lights.” 80% of the time my lights would turn on. 20% of the time, I’d be greeted with: “Ok, playing ‘Turn on the Lights’ by Future on Spotify.” And I’d stand there in the dark, listening to music I don’t like, questioning my life decisions.

Anecdotally, I'm at 100% turning on the lights with the same phrase (though I do say "hey google" instead of "ok google").

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Post by dyingkneepad »

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

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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.

I don't use it with OK Google, I just type the stuff. All I need to do is unlock the phone, swipe right to the next home screen, click the giant widget and type.
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