Cortana is Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which was introduced in 2014 back when Windows Phone was still a thing. Similar to...

Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri::Cortana is Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which was introduced in 2014 back when Windows Phone was still a thing. Similar to…

  • Gowens@lemmy.worldEnglish
    561·
    1 year ago

    Yep. I’ve used my Google assistant for timers, alarms, weather, and music. Anything more complex is a headache. Even music is half the time.

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      1 year ago

      Asking the thing to handle music in another language was terrible. Asking it to play a French song to an assistent set in English gives stupid results for example. “Que sera, sera” becomes “Oh Sarah”.

      • Psyduck_world@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        This! I live in Taiwan, but 99% of my entertainment is from the US. I can’t use Any of these assistants in English otherwise street names or other Mandarin stuff won’t work, but if I use Mandarin assistants none of my music or shows works.

        • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Can you use two? I use both Siri with push to talk from my Watch and Alexa through Echo dot, whichever is convenient. Either one will do times, music, lights, etc

          If you took a similar approach, you might use one with each language

    • PancakeLegendEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I use Google Assistant extensively. I use it for home automation control. Math. Basic search. Defining words. Telling you who wrote that book, who was in that movie. Song identification. Weather. Setting calendar events. Adding things to lists, named lists… omg, all the time. If you create routines in google home, it gets even better. Google also recently released a scripting tool for it as well. I definitely have my issues with it, but it’s got way more use cases and potential than you imply.