Google Assistant will no longer support a number of underutilized features to focus on improving quality and reliability.

Looks like a bunch of features are being removed due to “underutilization”

  • @cafeinux@infosec.pubEnglish
    14•1 year ago

    The only use I have for Google Assistant is to call people when I’m in my car, and even then it doesn’t work correctly.

    • “Call <wife’s first name>” -> Calls a business in a neighbouring country which happens to have the same (common) name as my wife.
    • “Call <wife’s first and last name>” -> Calls my wife.
    • “Call <father’s first and last name>” -> Calls another business in the same neighbouring country which name contains my father’s first and last name.
    • “Call <father’s first name>” -> Calls my father.

    Wtf really. Those two businesses must keep wondering who’s that number that keeps calling them at absurd times from another country and never leaves a message, because I can never remember who I must use the full name of…

    • @entropicdriftEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      You can tell it your relationship to your contacts and then you can just say “call my wife” or “call my dad” and it’ll work.

      • @cafeinux@infosec.pubEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        I’m not that comfortable with the idea of giving that kind of information to Google (I’m already beating myself up for using Google Assistant in my car). Yet somehow I feel like they already know that kind of information.

        • @entropicdriftEnglish
          1•11 months ago

          They definitely know already. And regardless, Facebook knows for sure and they’re 10x worse