Why even bother having it at all anymore. Can’t use it through Bluetooth, it’s slow, can’t hardly handle any tasks…
Google has completely lost the plot with their services.
To me this is reading more like you can no longer turn those options off and they are automatically enabled. It literally says your bluetooth mic will be used by default not that you can’t use it through bluetooth.
Instead I understand this that basically everything you ask with the phone in your pocket will be “to answer this question you need to unlock your phone” (no, I don’t want to enable and train voice match)
Looks like they’re removing the toggle making it always enabled, probably because nobody used the phone mic while connected via Bluetooth
In honesty, many of the changes announced seem to remove redundancies
never forget
I never will. I loved Google Now. It legitimately felt like the future when it came out. So much more useful than the dumbass article and product sales feed it is now.
They always make services worse before they end them. Maybe instead of incorporating ai they will release a new, not compatible with existing hardware, assistant and they are moving teams around.
It’s that they’re pulling resources away from assistant and preparing to launch Bard in its place.
Another silent change in the latest update, at least on my phone, is that the assistant disregards media volume levels and screams its feedback on full volume. It wasn’t like this until a week ago. Restarting, playing with settings, adjusting the volume as she screams, nothing helps.
So if I ask her to do something late at night she goes, “OKAY I WILL DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU ASKED ME TO DO AND WILL ANNOUNCE IT TO THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE PROCESS”
“OKAY, BUYING MORE PREPARATION H”
I noticed that Hey Google wasn’t working from the lock screen anymore. Pretty annoying.
does that help with privacy at all? would that mean someone can’t pick up your locked phone and ask it questions like “who did I recently call”?
If the voice doesn’t match the account owner, it doesn’t give out any personal info. If you use somebody else’s Assistant, you can only get general search results or media payback, typically.
Honestly while Google is far ahead of Amazon here, they still recognize like 9 out of 10 voices as the “owner”. Just not 10 out of 10 like Alexa does, which is utterly useless and will happily recognize a cat meowing as its trigger and allow it to unlock the front door. >.>
I have a couple of phones in use. 1 never answers which is fine as I have a display too, but the other answers every time I can do that if you unlock your device first.
I don’t understand why google is still worth so much money, they are a trash company that really isn’t trying to improve any of its products. It just periodically threatens its workers with job cuts and continues to serve up crap to its customers.
That reminds me, I should really check out Graphene OS…
Yes you should – but definitely make sure you know what you’re giving up (or freeing yourself from as the case may be) before diving in.
Google Wallet is probably the biggest deal breaker for most.
Yeah, Google Wallet and my banking app. Secondarily, access to my work emails and Slack. I’m on the move so much during the day, my laptop rarely leaves my backpack sometimes.
Schwab app works for me on Graphene and that’s my main bank/stocks app. I’ve found I don’t really need all my credit card apps or my other bank app. I check once a day if that and just keep a bookmark. It hasn’t been bad at all.
Do it, boi. One of us. One of us.
My sound search hasn’t worked in a very long time. One day there was an update, and it just stopped trying. It immediately says Unable to find a match. Based on all the forums I went through, I’m not alone with this issue.
Oh glad to know I’m not the only one. There’s a song that plays often at work that I’m just dying to know the name of but every time I try, Google tells me it’s unable to connect.
That’s weird. I have a pixel 6a and it tells me on my lock screen and pull down notification bar what’s playing at all times. I don’t know if that’s just a pixel thing but maybe try enabling that option if you have it?
Yeah that’s a Pixel feature unfortunately, unrelated to Google Assistant.
They’re slowly phasing out Google assistant in an attempt to kill it.
My bet is that they’re trimming down its complexity so they can more easily/fully integrate it with Bard: https://blog.google/products/assistant/google-assistant-bard-generative-ai/
Google usually replaces something well built out with someone very incomplete.
Maybe their game here is to trim it to hell so Bard doesn’t look so comparatively incomplete?
Oh don’t worry, I’m sure it’ll be back behind a paywall soon enough.
Downdate
“All the ‘G’ keys on our keyboards are missing, my front wheel is missing, [whispers to camera] I cant get home! [narrorator: ‘careful tim’]”
If I understand this correctly in my use case Assistant will get worse in my car with a aftermarket head unit. The mic isn’t that great on the radio and I’ve had better luck using the handset mic instead.
An aftermarket head unit usually has an external microphone jack in the wiring harness where you can plug an extra microphone and place it somewhere near the driver (e.g. behind the steering wheel). Just buy a small microphone to upgrade the recording quality.
Surely this is not related to recent major layoff in Google Assistant division, right?
Mine turned off completely and won’t even download to the phone. Whatever. Less shit is better anyway.
