[vi-android] Re: Using "OK Google"
- From: "gary melconian " <globcastcapital@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:26:49 -0700
Yes take a look at Utter and dragon assistant. They do a better job then ok
Google . I have been beta testing utter and the other list suggested dragon. I
will notgo back to the list as I find its dto hosttle to be able to debate some
issues in regards to matters.
-----Original Message-----
From: vi-android-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vi-android-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Quentin Christensen
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 11:12 PM
To: vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vi-android] Using "OK Google"
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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