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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by hi41 on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:25AM (#23273102)
I have a Sony UHD TV with Android which comes preloaded with Google Assistant which support voice search. I wanted to watch a movie and I did a voice search for that movie. I expected to get a list of apps where I can watch it - Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+. Instead I was presented with a list of shops few miles away. I found this interface very bad. I search on TV to watch a series/movie. Why would the Google Assistant give a list of shops nearby? That may be useful if I open Google Maps and search for that but on TV most people search to watch something on TV and choose the app that streams it. Why do smart companies like Google create such pathetic interfaces.
Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by bitwise-evan on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:51AM (#23273375)
Likely because Google Assistant did not know it was running on a tv. It's probably the generic assistant that comes with Android. Not sure I would consider that pathetic. Tuning all the intricacies of the Assistant for each application seems like a ton of work.