Am curious. How often do you use a voice assistant and what tasks?
Re:Apple HomePod 2nd Generation
by BasedInfra on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @10:30AM
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Lights, Time, Timers, News, Podcasts/Audiobooks.
Asked Alexa today:
- ‘Can dogs eat apples’
- ’How far is it to <location>‘ ‘How long to <location>.’
- ‘How many calories does 100g grams of cornflakes have’
Just stuff not worth picking my phone up and typing for the most part.
Though just tried all 3 of them on siri and only how far/long is <location> gave me a voice answer (the other 2 were just search results).
I'm not the parent commenter but I'm using Siri on my HomePod minis all the time. Turning on / off lights. Regulating the temperature, setting timers, asking for temperature outside, stopping the music.
Unfortunately Siri isn't that great so you'll often run into "Waiting for it", "One moment" and "Working on it" replies.
Also often siri cannot tell the difference between on and off.
There's one thing keeping my Echo plugged in: AnyList integration. I can say "Alexa, add eggs" and it adds eggs to my AnyList shopping list. With a HomePod, I have to say something like "Hey Siri, using AnyList add eggs to my grocery list" or something like that. It's way too clumsy.
Alexa & Google just bypass it in cleverness while also understanding my accent way better.
The only major plus of Siri is tight integration into ios.