[vi-android] Re: Using "OK Google"
- From: Kevin Ratliff <kdr.email@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:07:57 -0600
I use OK Google / Google now / voice
dictation 90% of the time, and I am mostly happy with it. I have not
had problems opening apps, sending sms, or sending emails with it.
On 6/12/14, Quentin Christensen <quentin.christensen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I finally set aside some time to have a play with "OK Google", and I
> must admit, I'm a bit disappointed. I've put my thoughts below and
> I'd be interested in other's experiences.
>
> I tried Google Now awhile ago on my Galaxy Nexus and found it would
> only give me the weather each morning, and randomly, the driving time
> to work (which is irrelevant as I don't drive to work).
>
> Today I tried OK Google, I setup a widget on my home screen to Google
> Search which seemed to go straight into it and I could get it to do
> some basic things from the list at:
>
> http://www.androidpit.com/how-to-use-ok-google-voice-commands
>
>
> I think some of them like sports scores are only for the US (it
> couldn't tell me anything about Aussie Rules, though it did offer me
> the AFL webpage as the first result).
>
> I tried emailing myself, but even though I have two entries in my
> address book, it couldn't find either of them (even though it spelt my
> name correctly). I could email my wife, though I couldn't add a
> subject, only the body of the message and when I agreed to send it,
> the message was opened in Aqua Mail with the focus in the subject
> ready for me to write that and then send it manually.
>
> I could dial contacts and numbers, and I was impressed when I told it
> to ring work, and it found two entries and asked me which one and I
> replied "the first one" and it rang it. I wasn't expecting that, but
> I would have expected when I dictated a number that it should have
> been able to figure out what the word "double" meant, as in "dial 1,
> 2, double 3, 4", it instead did a google search for that...
>
> I could get the weather and do arithmatic and conversions and some of
> the easter eggs worked (do a barrel roll, "when am I" and "who are
> you" were cute, how much wood can a woodchuck chuck would have been
> more entertaining if it had read the entire answer and overall I must
> confess, Siri is a lot cleverer with it's easter eggs).
>
> I was disappointed that I couldn't open apps (it generally just did a
> web search, occasionally it crashed).
>
> I was surprised I couldn't even ask it where am I (it gave me a map,
> but refused to offer an address, though it could give me directions
> from my 'current location' when I gave it a location to go to it
> understood.
>
> I found it quite inconsistent in that it would give me voice answers /
> feedback on some things, but not others.
>
> I asked it to take a photo and it did open my camera, but left it to
> me to actually take my shot - I could see in an emergency wanting to
> to say "take a photo" or even "record video" and wanting it to just do
> it.
>
> I would say I was impressed with how accurately it did understand me
> most of the time, even when I talked quite quickly, I was just
> disappointed how a search feature designed by the world's most
> sucessfull search engine company, was really, fairly limited in what
> it could actually do with the information I gave it. EG, I would have
> liked to have fully written an email, and when I tried to email a
> contact who didn't have an email address, it should have walked me
> through adding an email address, not just offering me the (correct)
> contact card to tap on physically and edit manually. I would have
> liked to have been able to tell it to open apps, read my
> notifications, lock the screen, and basically tell me more.
>
> I've used Siri and as a comparison, I can do most of the things Google
> offered, many the same, some better, some worse. I do like being able
> to say "ok google" once I'm in it to start a new query, whereas on the
> iPhone you have to tap the microphone, though Siri is easier to get
> into as you can just hold down the home key (On a nexus I think you
> can swipe up from the home key? My Nexus is playing up at the moment
> so I can't test it). For the most part, I just find it easier and
> quicker to do what I need manually, but I'll keep an eye on it.
>
> How do others find it? Do others use OK Google / Google now / voice
> dictation / anything similar?
>
> Regards
>
> Quentin.
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