Amazon has had a notoriously hard time making money from Alexa.
  • yildo
    16•1 year ago

    Me: Play Whitehorse the band
    Google Assistant: Playing Whitehorse the song by some other guy
    Me: No, play Whitehorse the Canadian band
    Google Assistant: Playing Whitehorse the album by a third guy
    Me: Play Achilles Desire
    Google Asistant: Playing Whitehorse

    Me: Play Tu vuò fà l’americano on Spotify
    Google Assistant: !?!?!?!?

    Me: Play Laisse tomber les filles
    Google Assistant: !?!?!?

    Me: Play Les Cowboys Fringants on Spotify
    Google Assistant: !?
    Me: Play Les Cowboys F R I N G A N T S
    Google Assistant: Playing Les Cowboys Fringants

    I only ever use those junky voice assistants when driving, and they are useless half the time

    • @isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      70% of the time, finding my phone and doing it myself would have been faster than arguing with a dumb speaker. I find them really good for

      • setting timers
      • playing generic music
      • pausing other devices that are playing
      • simple questions like current temperature or forecast

      When I don’t already have my phone in hand.

    • @essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      Me: Turn on the kitchen

      Alexa: I’m sorry, what device?

      Me: KITCHEEEEEEN

      It used to work flawlessly for every room in my house, and then a few months ago it just started doing that stupid “what device?” shit.

      Not only are voice assistants not improving, they’re actively getting worse.