I firmly believe that Google has stopped working on assistant, letting it slowly deteriorate and get worse so they can pull the plug in a bit.
It used to be able to do more. They’ve shut down integration APIs. The speech recognition has taken a hit. It still supports dual languages but somehow manages to mix them up fairly often. It doesn’t identify voices as well, often mistaking me and my roomie for one another.
My guess is that it just got too expensive. The one-time income from speakers and whatnot just wasn’t enough to cover it, and so Assistant is going the way all Google products do.
It’s a shame really, having my shopping list shared with the spouse through Bring and being able to just “hey google, add eggs to the shopping list” and it pops on both our phones was wonderful, but Google just decided no more integrations for useful things like lists. Assistant really is getting actively worse wouldn’t be shocked if it is gone before long.
This is exactly the thing I used Google Assistant for until July or whatever when the bring integration stopped working. Now I use it as a light switch before going to bed, and even that it gets wrong every so often.
In this case, has assistant ever been able to sonically ID a song that’s playing on the device itself? I know it couldn’t a few years ago when I asked what song was playing - it just gave me the podcast name. I just tested it and it works fine listening for a song from my pc
I think assistant on the phone has been able to before, whereas on speakers it just reads the “Now playing” title, assuming something is playing, otherwise it just says “nothing is playing right now.”
It still supports dual languages but somehow manages to mix them up fairly often.
I love it when Assistant doesn’t understand Dutch because it thinks it’s English and it doesn’t understand English because it thinks it’s Dutch
It does it with English and Japanese for me. It’s ridiculous.
![[Other] Google Assistant tries to pull the "song name" out of anywhere instead of just identifying it by sound](https://i.imgur.com/opx50Ld.png){kind=link}