In the age of LLMs I also increasingly view my experience with "Hey Google" and "Alexa... " with similar contempt. Their output feels so bad compared to what ChatGPT's voice gets me. All of the big tech companies seem to be struggling immensely to deploy the latest in AI advancements.
"go home" opens maps app with a route to my home.
"alarm in", "alarm at", "what time is it?" works well too.
In fact I'm afraid they'll break it by shoving down Gemini.
Alexa is the same with basics, works well for me with "reminder in X hours", "reminder at 10am on every workday", "alarm at", "play The Strokes", "add coffee to the list" (groceries)
Alexa is really bad with any advanced stuff I've tried. Didn't try with "hey Google"
Any other basics that work?
i have a pixel 9 with gemini. i absolutely hate it. google assistant is miles ahead.
and btw, i'm not the only one complaining https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1jdpvnq/gemini...
But it's only a matter of time until some exec removes it to "improve Gemini adoption".
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-killing-assistant-35...
It also doesn't help that ChatGPT's voice cadence is much closer to sounding like a real human.
Siri meanwhile is still far behind both Alexa and Google Assistant in its basic voice-to-text conversion capabilities -- a pain point I experience everytime I talk into my Apple TV remote to search for content.