Changes we're making to Google Assistant

Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by danielbln on Friday January 12, 2024 @02:14PM (#38972539)

I can ask Alexa e.g. "what's the weather at 9am", that doesn't work with Google Assistant?

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Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by riversflow on Friday January 12, 2024 @02:35PM (#38972835)

Not OP, but I want to see an hour by hour forecast for the day. If there is precip, I want to see an animated active radar view, with forecast frames.

“What’s the weather @ time” is inadequate. I live in California(albeit not on the coast or in the valley).

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Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by achates on Friday January 12, 2024 @02:37PM (#38972867)

"The weather in Nijmegen is..."

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Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by esafak on Friday January 12, 2024 @02:48PM (#38973006)

Also fails when you live in a town that has homonyms, so it can fail even when it correctly hears the word. Wrong country, that's all!

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Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by aworks on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:30PM (#38976455)

I tried this and Alexa replied:

The temperature in Nyagen, Russia is current -31 degrees...

I'm an American but I've been to Nijmegen so I think my pronunciation was ok.

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Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by SketchySeaBeast on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:56PM (#38973917)

You can definitely do that.

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Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant by afavour on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:03PM (#38973218)

I dunno, I’ve never tried. It’s just one of those scenarios where I find the visual is a much more useful medium.

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