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

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

01100011 wrote: post #274
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…

Given how they killed off Google Play Music and foisted YouTube Music on us, I have to conclude that Google hates music and wants to do everything they can to ruin the listening experience. It's as if no one involved in product design has even a passing interest in music.

When cancelling my YouTube Premium subscription one of the exit survey questions for "reason for cancellation" was "Unhappy with the YouTube Music App." So clearly there's some awareness of the unpopularity of YTM out there. However while it specifically asked about the app, whereas the real problem is the whole YTM service/experience on all platforms -- in particular the web app. Hopefully the cancellations and the survey results percolate to the right people.

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

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Post by jdminhbg »

noja wrote: post #103
rileytg wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

when i was a working chef, i used this NON-STOP. it is actually the first real “tech” i’ve ever brought into a (real working) kitchen that provided real value instead of gimmick

You worked as a chef and used a single timer in Siri and were happy with that? How?! (Siri doesn't support more than one concurrent timer)

> (Siri doesn't support more than one concurrent timer)

It has for at least the past couple years now.

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

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Post by addandsubtract »

nogridbag wrote: post #175
noja wrote: post #103

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You worked as a chef and used a single timer in Siri and were happy with that? How?! (Siri doesn't support more than one concurrent timer)

I miss the days of instruction manuals. Alexa has always (?) supported concurrent timers but it wasn't until recently that it started asking me if I want to name my timers. But it tries to be "smart" and only ask me when it thinks I need to name them. I only figured out through trial and error that I can name my Alexa timers without waiting for it to prompt me: > Alexa, set a pasta timer for 10 minutes > - Pasta time…

Alexa, let pastaTimer equal 600. While pastaTimer greater than zero, pastaTimer minus minus. Sleep 1. End while. Play alarm dot mp3.

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

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Post by dspillett »

kwijibob wrote: post #333
pradn wrote: post #157

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As a Google employee, I really don't want to be saying "Ok, Google" in my home all the time. It's totally possible for me to go to work in a subway that has Google ads, waste time on my Pixel, work at the Google office for eight hours, waste time on my Pixel, walk past the same ads on the way home, watch YouTube videos and do Google searches about random topics, and ask Google to set an alarm before I go to sleep. It…

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

"OK Google"/"hey Google" is one of the reasons I went with Amazon's products instead! (other reasons include that they seem to understand my voice more reliably than Google or Microsoft's systems). I get to call it Computer instead of Alexa too, though if I were stuck with Alexa it would still be preferable to Google (or Amazon for that matter).

It's isn't just branding though, if I'm right. The wake word needs to be something that is easy to pick out from a complex audio environment and not be a regular part of common speech so cause confusion (computer fails a bit in that regard) so allowing completely custom wake words might cause reliability issues. Also some might choose wake words that the brands don't want to be seen listening for: I might choose "slave" as a Blake's 7 reference for instance but that could easily offend some if they overhear, and there are many other epithets, slurs, and swears, that would not be deemed suitable either.

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Post by crazygringo »

jamiek88 wrote: post #412
bigiain wrote: post #406

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-- is it because you don't speak with a 20-30 year old white male techbro bay area accented voice, so Google never even bothered testing whether it'd work for you? (My brother in law is Australian living in the US, and has to use his "sarcastically fake American accent" to be understood on the phone. He, more politely than I, calls it his "phone voice". It's the same voice all my friends here use when parodying Ameri…

Me too. As a Brit in USA, especially as a scouser, I have to do a comedy American accent to work Siri et al. Used to be the same in the store, tuna sandwich pls. Huh? What? Oh, toona!

Does:

  Settings > Siri > Language > English (United Kingdom)
not fix it for you? And possibly setting

  Settings > Siri > Siri Voice > British
as well?

Apple advertises:

> Since Siri is designed to recognize accents and dialects of the supported countries or regions, Siri’s accuracy rate will be highest for native speakers.

Or is this problem just with American friends' devices?

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

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Post by crazygringo »

bigiain wrote: post #416
crazygringo wrote: post #411

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You really don't think Google doesn't test in other huge markets? A study a couple years ago found that Google did awfully well with English speakers from the US, India, and China. [1] From a quick search, it looks like national accents are less of a problem, and the real difficulties like in dialects and foreign accents (e.g. a Spanish person speaking English). But the idea that the training corpus used for speech r…

> You really don't think Google doesn't test in other huge markets? I'm not entirely convinced Google test _anything_. Certainly not convinced enough to not play it up in the context of a snarky dis on Google and Googler culture.

If you're going to diss something, you should at least get it right... ;)

Don't you recall the infamous fifty-shades-of-blue thing with Google? Google's whole thing is that they quantitatively test everything.

Maybe you've been living under a rock the past 20 years? :P

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Post by surround »

The submission url contains these tracking parameters:

?si=1Y4i7boAQc-jCc2IP_BGSw&utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2020-12-02)

Here’s the url with the tracking parameters removed:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4zkEptQvq1lVG0BSPLuLFf

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Post by Igelau »

methodin wrote: post #422
skaber wrote: post #410

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I think you can trigger Google assistant by using "OK Boo Boo". It works on the Google Home and on my Android phone, and is actually easier for toddlers.

This is a great tip. `Hey Boo Boo` is much easier to say too.

Seems like we're spending an awful lot on picnic basket deliveries...

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Post by AgentOrange1234 »

dspillett wrote: post #454
kwijibob wrote: post #333

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

"OK Google"/"hey Google" is one of the reasons I went with Amazon's products instead! (other reasons include that they seem to understand my voice more reliably than Google or Microsoft's systems). I get to call it Computer instead of Alexa too, though if I were stuck with Alexa it would still be preferable to Google (or Amazon for that matter). It's isn't just branding though, if I'm right. The wake word needs to be…

“Computer” seems humane. There’s a teenager down the street named Alexa. She apparently gets asked the weather a lot. :(
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