Google Assistant tries to pull the "song name" out of anywhere instead of just identifying it by sound
Google Assistant tries to pull the "song name" out of anywhere instead of just identifying it by sound
At least I can use Shazam
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Google assistant is useless. I can't rely on it when I'm driving.
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It asked me to give a vote on how useful was the interaction. On the screen there was numbers from 1 to 5. I pressed 1 and it searched "1" on Google.
Ten years ago it wasn't dumb like this...
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I know exactly what you mean. I use nest hub max for cooking recipes a lot. When I get to the final step there's a "done" button. I click it and Google says "I'm sorry I don't know how to help with that" like. What the fuck
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Alexa got dumb too. I’ll ask her to turn on the fan and she’ll turn on the fan in another room but telling her to turn off the fan turns off the correct one. I ended up getting a HomePod. Siri may be basic but at least she knows what room she’s in.
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lmao
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Somehow the assistant manages to instantly turn on and respond any time I don't need it, but when I do, I have to repeat myself at least 10 times, for a basic question
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Pretty much the reason I never used it on my last phone. Even went through the steps to have it recognize my voice better, and even when it hears it the first time there's a 1 second delay before it actually starts listening, which makes me further contemplate why I bothered.
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Yeah, Assistant blows much of the time:
"Hey Google. What's two plus two?"
"Sorry, I don't understand. But I found something similar. Would you like to know what two plus two is?"
"Yes, dammit!"
"On the website Add A Couple of Numbers for the Hell of It, they say, two plus two is four. Would you like a little more context?"
"No!!!"
"Alright. I'm here to help."
Arrgh.
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What do you mean, [Buffering 55%] by Radio Melody is such a banger
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Wait til you hear '404' or 'not available in your country'
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It is there to spy, not to assist
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On pixel 2 and 3 this shit was amazing. I never had an issue with Google Assistant absolutely perfect assistant app. Then I got a samsung fold and, despite allegedly being the same app, it sucks all the donkey dick and balls. It's clearly not the same Assistant, and if it IS then google fucking ruined it.
It struggles recognizing the switch from wifi to data. Getting in my car and giving it commands to play music takes forever because it hangs up with the (now distant and poor) wifi
Commands to call people when I'm outside (walking dog, garden etc) suck for the same reason.
Voice to text is trash. It's always getting words wrong, mishearing requests, or putting words that I didn't fucking say. Half of my sentences start with "is" for some reason. "Is I need you to get dog food" like bruhhhh
I thought it was just because Google was punishing samsung users to push Pixels. This thread makes me feel vindicated. I wasnt wrong or mis-remembering with rose tinted glasses. It really is hot garbage lol
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This has been happening to me on a Pixel 6 and it's annoying as hell. Their assistant has devolved
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walking dog, garden etc
Your garden can walk? /j
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I mean, yeah, if you're playing media, it's going to assume that's what you want to identify and will pull from that source, first. Why activate the mic if you don't need it to?
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Close enough
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And technically correct
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It seems like you've misunderstood this feature of Google Assistant. Now Playing is a pixel exclusive feature that works in the background without triggering assistant and shows the currently playing song on the lock screen and always on display. It seems like OP is trying to trigger this feature from the foreground? Which I think would be a good feature but I doubt Google would let any phone use this cause profit. So I guess this is still fitting for mildly infuriating lol
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Actually, all I wanted it to do is this:
Direct image linkWhich works basically like Shazam. Well, it should, at least.
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I think this works by
- opening Google app
- clicking the mic icon next to the search bar
- clicking "search for a song"
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fun fact, audio players don't typically use sound to get song titles, they use metadata in the file itself, which is how it also gets the artist name, album and track number, among other things
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But this isn't audio player.
Speaking of metadata, I recommend Kid3 tag editor.
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