Looks like a bunch of features are being removed due to “underutilization”

  • cafeinux
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    2 年前

    The only use I have for Google Assistant is to call people when I’m in my car, and even then it doesn’t work correctly.

    • “Call <wife’s first name>” -> Calls a business in a neighbouring country which happens to have the same (common) name as my wife.
    • “Call <wife’s first and last name>” -> Calls my wife.
    • “Call <father’s first and last name>” -> Calls another business in the same neighbouring country which name contains my father’s first and last name.
    • “Call <father’s first name>” -> Calls my father.

    Wtf really. Those two businesses must keep wondering who’s that number that keeps calling them at absurd times from another country and never leaves a message, because I can never remember who I must use the full name of…

    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 年前

      You can tell it your relationship to your contacts and then you can just say “call my wife” or “call my dad” and it’ll work.

      • cafeinux
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        2 年前

        I’m not that comfortable with the idea of giving that kind of information to Google (I’m already beating myself up for using Google Assistant in my car). Yet somehow I feel like they already know that kind of information.