Are you saying that gemini is even worse that ga at playing music from spotify? I have a hard time believing that, but I guess nothing’s impossible if you really set your mind…
I mean asking ga to play some classic rock, and it’ll pick a live version, ask for some pop track from your youth and you get a speed metal banjo cover version.
It either hears it and spotify plays with something way way off the beaten track of the search results
Or it says something like “you need to give access to gemini”, “you need a spotify premium account”, “you can adjust your settings in the gemini or android auto app”, “I don’t respond to that language, I am here to help if you require anything further”
My favorite is saying "send an SMS to [SO’s name]“ reading it correctly recognized on the display, only to be told “sorrry I can’t send SMS messages yet”, giving the exact same instruction again right after, and now I can send the SMS.
But when gemini installed itself and insisted that I use it instead, I got so pissed that it lasted for about 15km of my commute home, before I pulled over and got rid of it. Now I didn’t just have to fight speech recognition, now I had to argue with a glorified toaster about putting on music.
This makes android auto voice useless to me. I don’t need an Ai arguing with me when im trying to find a coffee shop while driving
“You can only choose songs with a spotify premium subscription” - proceeds to use my premium subscription to play my song.
It is so bad compared to the assistant, it actually made me delete gemini off my phone just so I could use the GA voice setup again.
They also manage to get weird results. I askd for Oasis and kept getting weird asian tracks or covers.
"You need a YouTube music account to play “bad blood by Taylor switch on spotify”
Like what the actual fuck.
Are you saying that gemini is even worse that ga at playing music from spotify? I have a hard time believing that, but I guess nothing’s impossible if you really set your mind…
I mean asking ga to play some classic rock, and it’ll pick a live version, ask for some pop track from your youth and you get a speed metal banjo cover version.
100%
The issue is two fold.
It either hears it and spotify plays with something way way off the beaten track of the search results
Or it says something like “you need to give access to gemini”, “you need a spotify premium account”, “you can adjust your settings in the gemini or android auto app”, “I don’t respond to that language, I am here to help if you require anything further”
My favorite is saying "send an SMS to [SO’s name]“ reading it correctly recognized on the display, only to be told “sorrry I can’t send SMS messages yet”, giving the exact same instruction again right after, and now I can send the SMS.
But when gemini installed itself and insisted that I use it instead, I got so pissed that it lasted for about 15km of my commute home, before I pulled over and got rid of it. Now I didn’t just have to fight speech recognition, now I had to argue with a glorified toaster about putting on music.