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Re:Pixel 5 by blibble on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:28PM (#24642711)
the google assistant was reasonable, but now it's become crap because of one minor change

and that is that it no longer beeps after saying "hi google", so no idea if it's actually processed the wakeup word

and then sometimes it no longer responds after commands, e.g. "set alarm for 8am", so you have no idea if it's actually done it

until a month or so ago you could work around this by uninstalling the updates, but now they've done something to the clock app so if you do that you can't set alarms with it at all

annoying

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Re:Pixel 5 by stronglikedan on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:11PM (#24643241)
My Note 8 still beeps to let me know it's ready for my command. Is this a model-specific thing?
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Re:Pixel 5 by Aissen on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:45PM (#24642925)
It should be possible to re-enable the beep in settings, just like for Google Home devices.
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Re:Pixel 5 by blibble on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:37PM (#24643512)
it's been a problem for around 10 months, reverting the app version fixes it but has other side effects

according to a search... apparently this is a common problem

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