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Google lays off employees working on its voice assistant
(www.businessinsider.com)
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I’m about to throw my google speakers away at this point. I feel like they are becoming more and more useless. Voice commands used to work fine, but lately this is a standard occurance.
“Hey google, turn on the kitchen lights.”
“I’m sorry. It looks like that device hasn’t been set up yet.”
“Hey google, turn on the kitchen lights.”
“Power controls are not available at this time.”
“Hey google, turn on the kitchen lights”
…lights turn on…
I unplugged mine a few weeks ago. I realized literally the only thing I use it for is occasionally finding my phone.. besides that, it fucks up basically every instruction I give it
It works reasonably well for timers, alarms and weather.
Oh really? I can no longer get it to set a recurring alarm every monday through thursday. It's just not understanding any of the commands there that it did before.