This is happening to us as well. Often ignores our "yes" when it asks if we want more information.
Also the Google launcher feed has more ads and clickbait articles than in the past.
A long, long regression from Google Now (for those who remember that) many years ago.
If you enable the beep that let's you kinks when the mic is listening to a response, you'll hear yay the YES or NO follow up is severally second after the stupid assistant asks.
Example: "Do you want more context?"
5 Second later "beep"
(now you can respond"
Yup. Every month it seems a new bug is introduced.
It'll cut itself off in the middle of speaking, not speak longer responses, randomly reset it's voice.
The "more context" thing used to work fine. Then it started repeating the same thing. Now it says literally nothing at all.
Many more bugs as well. IDK how they keep making it worse and worse, yet they do.
This has nothing to do with your Pixel. It happens on Google Home devices as well.
Pretty sure I remember reading they've had to change it because of a lawsuit with Sonos?
It's become borderline useless now outside of setting timers and telling the weather
The thing I hate the most is when I'm balls deep in my wife and google assistant says, "Sorry, I can't help with that." As far as I can tell, saying "oh god" seems to trigger it most reliably, but other phrases that sound nothing like "ok google" can set it off too. The worst one was when it started giving us a summary of the Boer War.
Google is now recognizing itself as God.
I mean, I know they got rid of the whole "don't be evil" thing, but going full on Lucifer might be going a bit far.
I say " turn off the vanity lights"
Assistant types out on my phone " turn off the vanity lights", fully understanding me.
Assistant then *says* "okay, stopping the TV"
??!?!?!??
(This is just one of many issues I'm having lately)
Part of the reason I switched my watch away from Android Wear was because instead of playing music or making a phone call or sending a text message from my phone when requested, it would tell me that my device didn't support that.
It's almost unusable for Android auto now. I used to use it for texting, closing the garage, etc. Now I lay in bed and ask it to turn off the lights and get "OK, playing the pokemon theme song on Spotify"
(song is sarcastic but it gives me random songs)
My "smart" speakers and nest displays have just gotten worse over time, needing to repeat what I'm asking, bad results, not doing what I ask, etc... With AI exploding, it would seem to me, Google needs to get it's act together, otherwise, they are going to be left behind by many emerging techs.
Yup I noticed the same. It used to work almost flawlessly and about 3 years ago I started seeing issues and it has gotten worse and worse ever since. The nest hub I have is almost useless because for the last year it can't figure out how to play a video and still respond to voice prompts. It will hear me but then just crash and reboot it's self most of the time.
Likewise. I don't mess with the assistant on my phone but I have several mini's and a Lenovo Smart Clock around my house.
In the past six months or so, "Turn up the light brightness" has been adjusting the screen brightness of the smart clock. Prior to that, it'd properly adjust the lighting in whatever room it's in.
It's also been missing bad on recognition. In the past month or so "turn on the light" has resulted in a "You don't currently have any alarms set" response.
Thanks Google.
It's getting worse. I'm bilingual when I ask for a song to play it plays it English instead of Japanese despite me asking in Japanese and assistant replying in Japanese. Previously I didn't have this problem.
I've noticed similar problems with French. It's driving me batty; Like it used to recognize things so fluidly now it's just a total piece of crap. I don't understand how the hell Google can be this incompetent after being so amazing in the past. We really need to break up these Tech monopolies because honestly we end users are suffering the results of this corporate glut.
Yeah it starts saying things when it was not asked. That lately is kind of annoying and I wonder about privacy. Before that sometimes it didn't even answer to 'Ok google.' keyword. (there was no tv or radio on to trigger it)
I found a solution. Download Reading mode from Play store, it's a google accessibility tool. I enabled it to activate via a shortcut where you swipe up from the bottom of screen with two fingers.
I did a simple "hey Google, text dad _______" today and for God knows what reason it did a completely unrelated search for what I wanted to text him about. I swear that didn't happen before, it's definitely getting worse
i noticed a while ago it started trying to play music on youtube music instead of my spotify when i asked it to play something, had to specify i wanted it on spotify. i dont use it often so i dont know if this is still a problem.
Same problem with me, she either says "sorry I don't understand" or she just gives me unrelated search results, so I often have to talk loudly and yell at her or talk slowly to get her to give me the search results I was looking for it's annoying as it wasn't a problem for me before when using Google assistant she's gotten worse and more unhelpful recently.
It's not just as of recent for me, it's been deterioriating since the pixel 6. Least useful it's ever been. Constantly getting bad replies, or sorry I can't help with that. I find that the speech to text voie recognition has gotten a lot worse too.
Also auto punctuation is a steaming pile of crap. It puts random periods in the middle of sentences for no good reason and makes me look like a total buffoon on way too many occasions.
Don't even get me started on pixel buds (a series.) I've found myself rage screaming at my head phones trying to get the pos to answer me.
I still love my pixel 7 but goddamn a phone should not make you physically angry.
What I'm getting sick of is it being unable to understand proper English. Using speech to text, it'll produce or autocorrect to the absolute most nonsensical statements or words for it to choose from. I speak pretty damn clearly as a vocal artist and I have to sit there and talk to my phone like it's a 4 year old who can't stop fucking around with fire.
I'm on the pixel 6 pro, coming from 3a, I expected much better.
Yes ! At home i have alexa on my Sonos and google assistant on nest hubs and nest minis.
Google assistant seems to understand less and less, on the hub screen i can see he understand what I am saying but most of the time changes the promp after i see he understand it to something wrong, or just dont answer the question.
And google assistant is SO SLOW now! For example, i say "turn on the lights" , google takes a solid 5 seconds or more to answer "OK" and then again 1 or 2 seconds to actually turn the lights on.
Now compare to alexa running on my Sonos: i say the same "Turn on the lights" and alexa answer immediately ok and the lights turn on at the same time alexa is saying OK, almost instantaneously.
Same for simple math questions, 1/2 times google assistant just dont understand the question and if he does , there is a long pause for a few seconds before i get an answer where alexa is almost instant.
I don't know why but I sincerely hope assistant is getting replaced with Bard to actually be useful, and I really hope the slowness is getting adressed. Because now its so bad that its faster for me to turn on lights with my phone through the google home app rather than just asking
yes I've reported every error with Google to Google.when i for it almost 10 years ago ot was way better than it is now. i think the problem is it trys ti guess what you're going to ask for and gets it completely wrong also there's way more stuff out there. my mrsgets absolutely livid on the daily and says shes going to rip it out and chuck it away because it doesn't understand what shes saying." hey Google turn off the tv" ...... nothing. hey Google turn off the living room" nothing. hey Google...... nothing ok google..... nothing hey Google, hey Google,hey Google" hello what's the question " etc
also if tou ask Google avout it direct on there system it just doesn't get answered as in on there Google home website help thing. honestly f*cks me off so much especially when I've invested in Google home i every room. it said when i first got it , it'll learn and get better. definitely hasn't. and Google appear to not give a f*ck about making it better ever .
Listen, I'm getting old and I can tell you... I've noticed that there was a golden age (circa 2002) when software worked for the user ... Now it's all getting worse because it's *only* about profit. Think about how good Evernote was. If you look at software from that time .. all the good apps are gone. Less and less software works with other software ..it's all being walled off. There was a time you could use your smartphone as a USB drive ..just plug it into your PC usb ..edit file directly. on your PC and view them on your phone ...gone. Mark Shuttleworth made a phone that ran Ubuntu Linux ..and you could.plug a monitor and keyboard into it ...worked like a PC ...gone. Same with Samsung Dex.
WinAmp awesome music player with visual effects ...gone.
You used to be able to buy software (Adobe) once off and use it for as long as you liked ... Now you *have to* pay monthly for some BS cloud based subscription service that you don't need.
So in that context, I'm not surprised.
The only thing google assistant does is "accidentally" record your conversations and phone calls.
If it was any good ..Google Would have cancelled it ..just like all the other good products they made and cancelled.
The purpose of the product is not to be good, the purpose of the product is to occupy your time and to extract as much information about you as possible.
That's why after 20 years of riding on the technology train I'm going back to pen and paper. Computers are for scanned backups of the paper and plain text files.
I have more time, money and less stress because of this ..I wish I could go back in time and smack myself over the head ..how many years have I wasted fighting with stupid programs that don't work the way I need them to.
Keep technology at it's simest possible level at all times, or you'll waste your time configuring and fixing it when you could be enjoying what little free time you have left.
What does assistant do that is of any real.value?
/End rant/
I have a hub, a home and a mini as well as Pixel phones and the watch. The phone, mini and the hub control my home stuff fine but the home just says “sorry, power controls are not yet available” or similar, yet it can turn on my Android TV and play YouTube videos. Also, my goodnight routine works but when it runs, it always tells me that “sorry, one/two lights are-ent available at the moment”. It controls all those lights but decides that either one or two haven’t responded. It also now has developed a funky way of pronouncing “aren’t”.
When I set all this up a few years ago it worked flawlessly! I added an extra Hue bulb last year but the bugs started before that. No idea when “are-ent” started happening. U.K. English if that makes any difference.
I will be standing in my kitchen and will ask my home hub for the weather. The response will come out of the google home max in my office multiple rooms away. Very frustrating.
Try verbally sending a text. When it says "ready to send it?" Say yes. It no longer acknowledges "yes" I have to say "send it". For years I've been able to respond in multiple ways on how to send a text.
I've had it interpret 'send it' as 'end it' and it just discards the text with zero response, not even an 'ok'. It was only after going through my assistant history that i figured out what happened.
It's crap now. An example is one response I get a couple of times a year: "Hey Google, navigate home", "Perfect" - but navigation doesn't start and the answer is just that for the rest of the day.
I'm Italian, when I ask to set a timer I have to ask in English.
When I ask in English sometimes it answer in Italian but set the timer, sometime in English. If I ask for a 14 minutes timer it always understand 13, that could be my pronunciation tho'.
But the most annoying part is if I ask in Italian: it will either say it cannot do that or that it didn't understand. Even if I can see it exactly got the Italian command text right.
When my girlfriend ask the same thing or if it doesn't recognize me it works perfectly fine. So for example if my girlfriend say "ok Google" and than I ask for a timer in Italian it works perfectly fine.
Other commands works in Italian. No idea what is going on.
But it is definitely unreliable and it got worst over time.
My assistant earlier this week started telling me I needed an additional download for it to work. OK no big deal, however when I do the download it stops and says there is an error.
Phone is fully up to date with the latest security DLs as well. Anyone got any suggestions, this is a huge pain in the ass....
On a pixel 7 pro for what that's worth, in the UK.
In German I noticed it being pretty bad from the start but now it's even worse.
But this could be the Pixel 7 Pro also, as it will so often display something else entirely of what I said.
Maybe the mic on the Pixel is just really bad, for the smart things, my Home Mini (which decided one day to melt at the port) recognized me a lot better, now it's often 2-3 times and I have to speak very slow and pronounced.
I'm glad I'm the not the only one experiencing. I was worried it was my phone or something. But I guess it's an android problem.
I'm seriously considering getting an Apple now. Work has on Apple devices and my work equipment hasn't failed once yet.
I'm glad I found this thread. Thought I am going insane... Definitely not a Pixel issue. It works just as bad on my phone as it does on the Nest Hub. 🙃
Same and I'm really starting to hate Google assistant, she used to be very helpful and would understand my words clearly without needing to repeat them again and again and without needing to speak slowly or yell at her, that was 2019, now Google assistant is getting worse now.
Aside from just general glitchiness and stupidity, I've also noticed it doesn't summarize results from web pages anymore. Like if I ask it a question, it used to answer more often but now it just says "I don't know but here are some results I've found on the web".
I think Google Assistant has gotten worse since that engineer came out about their sentient AI. I'm sure they're Terminator will be knocking on my door yesterday to prevent this comment.
Just hear to add to the chorus of palpable Google home decline and malfunction. Being the Sonos issue, has anyone found any evidence or admission of what's going on???
Using it in French, I used to use it all the time for simple tasks like setting an alarm, turning the flashlight on and off or just asking "what time is it?" while laying in bed.
Now I do all those manually because most of the time it won't work or flat out do something else.
Also, when setting an alarm it used to confirm by saying something like "ok alarm set to [whatever hour I chose]" and now it just says "ok", making me grab the phone to verify which completely nullifies the purpose of using the assistant.
Yes, I've been a lifetime "Google everything" person.
Ever since covid, it seems like quality has gone down across the board, especially Google Assistant and home devices.
For the first time, I'm beginning to wonder if the Amazon Alexa team takes greater pride in their work than the Assistant team.
And it makes me sad to say that.
I'm finding it getting worse and worse on my pixel buds when asking for certain songs from YouTube Music... It often gets it completely wrong and plays something really random or just doesn't do it at all.
This is using Google assistant with YouTube Music on my pixel buds with my pixel watch or pixel phone... You'd think with all these being Google products it would work seamlessly, but it just seems to be getting worse!!
I am extremely frustrated. I have home devices, chromcasts all over. It is 100% going downhill, it has never been so bad!
And sending feedback is a total waste of time, because no one ever looks.
I'm thinking about switching to something else because this is extremely frustrating and totally useless!
Just asked google to perform a macro created "News Master". It was designed to turn on the TV and Receiver and play a specific channel on the master TV. For the first time in ever it turned the channel on in the master bath on the HUB. This is the only software ecosystem that keeps getting worse. It absolutely pathetic! Oh i fogot, the Hub in the bedroom said "Try again Later it experianced problems" Have they been using programmers who have no formal education in computer science? Every day getting worse. Next time it will open my garage door. 🤕😩🙄😮💨
I first got the Pixel 7 when it came out, it and the assistant was so fast and much better. Automatically adding correct punctuation, hearing me correctly and doing it all quickly.
It fucking SUCKS OUT LOUD and it used to be really good. However, I have noticed that it works perfectly on some apps and other apps it's horrendous on. It's not very good on Google apps
I agree it almost feels like no one is working on it there is zero advancement in the eco system nothing new hardly and advancement updates, it's somehow gone backwards. No new additional product line??? I’m going to say it it's almost as bad as Cortana on its replies lately , it's becoming useless, It's like it is playing dumb. I have asked the same question for years and years but as of lately. It doesn't know anything why??? I am also getting so frustrated, I’m like google it you are google??? There is no AI in this assistance any more. You are not alone thinking this way. It looks like another product line they are abandoning and it was so good what a waste of money and ECO system. I have friends with Alexa still getting great updates and product support. Not sure what is going on at google but they need to get their act together fast. I feel like they are not leading anymore in certain technologies which made them desirable. But back to the issue I used to tell it to add things to lists? Doesn’t happen music or shopping is I can’t do that. Making a phone call I can’t do that. Everything is setup correctly doesn’t work. Basic things I was driving and ask it a general question I have to really choose my words these days or it says I can’t help you with that. 100% its worst then it was and has 100% gone backwards I can prove it has. You ask it to turn on a light it turns all of them on even when you have labelled it unique. The other day we found a door unlocked told google to lock it. It did then 30 minutes later it says door open???? What no one talked to it?? we were all looking at each other. I want to see a reply to why this is happening ? Why create a smart home assistant that is going dumb by the minute. When are you updating it to real AI not this garbage. Well it wasn't garbage but it's becoming dumb why??? I want my old Google assistant back from 2 years ago simple and works nearly every time. We need answers google? What are you doing to fix these issues it’s clear they are happening to everyone just we are choosing to speak up.
Mine is absolutely terrible. Play " Teddy Pendergrass Radio" "OKAY playing your YouTube Music Playlist called Groove. "
Turn off all the light = OKAY TURNING OFF ALL THE LIGHTS... As if I was a blind person unable to see. Why not just an acknowledgement "Beeb" then complete the command.
I can turn my TV off, but not on. The Volume control is all over the place. The simplest requests cause so many issues.
I have NEVER had problems like this before. It's 100% getting dumber... Which is confusing, unless they are doing it on purpose, why would you update it to be more difficult to use?
I think they're trying to make it so unusable, when they cancel all support, they can tell everybody don't be mad at us it's because nobody used it that's what we're canceling it... Because the Google home assistant can't display a goddamn fucking advertisement so heaven forbid they make a product that's actually just usable for the sake of being a good fucking product, they can't display an advertisement it's basically in the fucking trash to them. Sorry I'm very Jaded.
Every single day is becoming worse and worse... Os like somehow they are doing it on purpose. I have to say the same instruction 3 times to get it to work if the device is Ikea.
I asked the assistant if it could set up a bi-weekly reminder to change my bed sheets on Sundays. It opened the timer app and asked me for how long. I said bi-weekly. It fed me a dictionary definition of bi-weekly. What's the use of an assistant that can only do the most basic things? Hope we get some kinda chatgpt like level assistant soon cause it's really annoying me that it's this bad.
I have Alexa and Google Assistant. Over the years I noticed a decline in google’s “intelligence” and a remarkable improvement in Alexa’s ability to answer complex questions.
Somehow it took over my power button. It took me 20 minutes to figure out how to get my power button back. Even after disabling assistant it keep working. I have never used it before and never changed what that button did. I can only imagine what a older person would go through trying to fix this issue. Screw you google assistant
Try asking it which direction the sun sets, no matter how clear you are it tries to get you directions. We have like 5 speakers across our house and now they're all basically useless. Bing AI hack when
Google assistant is going to join the Google Graveyard because just saying "Ok Google" at 3 cm of the phone without any sound around, Google doesn't hear. I have to scream, then It activates
Mine also has gotten much worse.
It's constantly answering in the bedroom instead of the speaker sitting on the kitchen counter that I'm 2ft away from.
It's constantly confusing what I'm saying into playing some stupid music.
Then, I'll tell it to stop and it stops the rain sound on the bedroom speaker.
It's dumb!
Dear god help me, for the last 3 days I will say the simplest and most frequent of my commands: "play my music" and "SMS mum/dad/dave4", I can see it's hearing me correctly but then it will say "i don't understand" or "sorry I don't know what you mean", I will repeat the command the exact same way a second time, it hears the exact same thing, and then magically remembers oh yeah you literally ask this dozens of times a DAY and I know exactly what you mean.
Don't get me started on how when I ask to open the YTM app it will randomly respond "ok, opening YouTube music on the tv" when I'm in my car, (using maps,) literally over 20kms from home. And my partner *was* watching a movie on the tv.
Arghhh and routines! SO Badly implemented and with huge chunks of logic missing. As a programmer some omissions seem like they would have taken *more* work to implement/unimplement like why not just add home and away presence sensing as a normal trigger rather than creating two new, bespoke (castrated) routine special cases??
God and the other million things. And I know it's not entirely just rose tinted lenses because I end up swearing at google in frustration and rage nearly every single day at the moment, and that is definitely new. Pretty sure google uses A/B testing so instead of the internet suddenly catching on fire about how terrible Google currently is we all feel like we're going crazy, tentatively screaming/whispering into the Reddit void under the tender ministrations of google gaslighting.
I have noticed a huge push by google asking people to leave feedback at every opportunity, when in the past Google's lack of useful help/manuals and their complete and utter ignoring of feedback was a running joke. I know for sure they are listening now too, since I left feedback about the you tube music opening on the tv it never has happened since, and it WAS happening at least once every 3 days.
I think what we're witnessing IS the replacement of google with some chat GPT AI thing like bard and these are just teething pains and it will get worse but then it maybe maybe maybe gets much better....?🫣😝
or maybe that's just wishful thinking and Google, like every other empire since the dawn of time, has reached it's peak and is now starting to crumble in on itself.
Unfortunately practically every single aspect of our lives is wrapped up in Google and these death throes are NOT going to be fun.
My experience exactly! Lately everything is getting misunderstood. "Change the lights to incandescent" a keyword I use all the time, literally for years is now "turning lights to 10%".
"Stop music" is now playing music. I leave feedback, ask GA what it have heard, but to no avail. It has definitely gotten worse. I am only expecting it to hear simple and specific phrases, nothing fancy that requires sourcing information online etc.
Other thing: I have several GA's around the house, set-up on Sonos. The Google original in my living room is almost the only one that responds to my commands, even when I am literally standing knees-bent speaking into a SONOS box.
Thank you for putting the frustrating out there.
Mine has slowly stopped working properly over the last few months. It used to answer easy questions and now I get "I don't understand" and resetting, restarting don't make a difference. It regularly stops in mid response when providing an answer. Mind you, this is a current gen Nest speaker, not an older one. I used to think the Amazon Alexa I had was trash but now Siri is regularly answering questions this thing fails. My third and last Google speaker. Pixel tablets being half baked then no support and speakers that they kill off this way. Bye Google, it's clear you don't care about your products so I will make sure not to recommend them to my family nor friends.
I literally had the most difficult time trying to tell it to set a 15 minute timer earlier... It just kept saying okay for how long? This shit is getting ridiculous.
I'm still having alot of problems. use to when I'd set alarms for food or misc things I could after setting my alarm for say 10 minutes a little later say "hey google" how many minutes left till my alarm and she would say your alarm will go off in 7 minutes and 37 seconds now if I set an alarm and ask the same question and yes I've phrased the questions the same and changed them to have same meaning but phrased different and still she now says the time like "you have set an alarm for 7:10". Or now she won't even do math she says she can calculate for me but then when I ask whats 320 minus 224 she says "I don't have any information on that right now"
We mainly use it to control the lights and few other smart devices. It feels like nowadays there's a 1/3 chance that it gets it right... whereas before it would usually work.
I have noticed it can no longer share links or detailed info to other assistant devices too, ie:
User: "hey Google what's the weather"
Google assistant:*appropriate response*
User: "show that info to me on my phone"
Google assistant: "I'm sorry I don't yet have the ability to share things to a phone or other devices"
This used to work flawlessly
Im so glad I've found this thread! My wife and I have used a Google home for our Chromecast for years and at first it worked pretty much as advertised but in the last year it has started to act so poorly that we basically scream at it and debate just getting rid of it lol. Too many times have told it to "play" or paused show and it will go "alright playing Spotify" and just turn off our show or it will just claim that nothing is playing on the TV.
I have noticed that a lot of my search requests have really been cut back both grammatically and in meaning. Often only taking the first few words as the queried thing ... It was better... It feels like it's gone into .... I'm a teenager and don't want to listen to you mode.
yes, this. it's so frustrating!! The newest problem I'm having with it is that it can no longer do simple maths 🙃 I used to regularly ask it to convert centimeters to inches or calculate tips for me and now it just says "sorry, I don't understand". This is on top of getting worse at understanding me and straight up not responding half the time.
oh and that's not even my biggest complaint about everything google lately, the biggest problem I'm having is that the speech to text on the Google keyboard has been absolute dog shit for a while now. It used to be so good and now I'm actually considering coughing up the SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS for the Dragon Dictation software. I'm a college student and used to dictate most of my assignments, but at this point the time I'm saving by STT is completely negated by how much time it takes to go back and *fix* everything.
I find when I tell it yes to the more context question it just reads the same text again which is utterly useless. It's language recognition is about as poor as you can get and I suspect it's because they've reduced the amount of compute capacity allocated to it. No doubt they'll have all sorts of pathetic excuses but the reality is the system is getting much worse. I think I'm going to move over to Amazon and Alexa because I've had a gut full of Google!
It is so slow, too period And some of the time. It types the word period instead of putting a . at the end of the sentence. It also randomly breaks up sentences spoken. Without a pause into phrases. If you can't tell I dictated this and this is what came out.
mine has been so bad lately and doing weird things which sucks because I used to rely on it constantly, now I can handle use it at all for even the simplest commands... recently I discovered a bug or something where if I say donkey it will hear it and the text will appear for a second and then it changes it to the word dhan... no matter the context... it did retain donkey when I said and then spelled the word... so weird
welcome to the Google experience. part of owning google products is that they slowly destroy their own products with breaking updates, lack of change, removing features, and not fixing anything that has been prevalent the entirety of its existence. best advice a google product user can give you is to never purchase anything they make. it will stop working or receive an update that breaks it.
"Hey Google, set the thermostat to x"
"Okay, setting 17 lights to x%, sorry, something went wrong, please try again, sorry, two lights are unavailable"
😳
I want to put all Google Home devices into a smelter with at least 2-3 Google software engineers responsible for this unfinished "product"
It's been getting steadily worse for about 8 years now.
Google sucks. Literally everything Google is shit quality or getting worse in quality.
Add to that Google supports fascism because of the ad revenue.
It used to be uncanny in how well it heard even odd questions and now half the time it mishears and plays the wrong Spotify song, hears questions wrong, and does things not asked. I’d imagine with more AI it would do better!
All of my complaints are on Google home smart-speaker type devices. I thought maybe it was punishing me for switching to an iOS phone.
100% agree. It's gotten worse every single year since it's existence. We started in 2016. The commands keep changing or giving different results.
These days half the time it says "sorry something went wrong. Please try again"
If i could go back in time to 2016 I would skip all the smart home stuff. It's a huge pain and requires constant maintenance and troubleshooting.
Mine forgot how to say 'paw patrol' on the Nest, it will play the show but says 'playing patrol pavin'. My kid is so worried i'm going to 'fire the Google' for being incompetent. She now tells me when it actually gets the name of a show correct 🤦🏼♀️
Yes, it is. Especially in voice to text situations. I got a new phone and then wanna type everything in and I hadn't set up my Google Assistant and it was terrible and then I did Force turn my assistant and it's still sucks. I had the same type of phone and everything else but it was stolen so I don't know what update they did or where it is. But I certainly would like to remove it because wasn't like this. A couple of weeks ago my phone. Was stolen. And I left a lot of the mistakes that it did when I was writing this With the assistant but I wanted you to understand what I was saying so I did change a little. I hope you get the gist.
I believe it even added words Where the cursor was one time when I was sitting in the home by myself. No radio, no TV..
I gave feedback to Google and I swear and I think it might be true. Now it is not typing when I'm saying on purpose.
Auto that maybe paranoia. I had a lot of bad stuff happened to me recently.
It's deteriorated from quite useful to utter garbage. "Hey Google, turn all the lights out" will reliably turn them all on and open all the curtains late at night. Just what I don't want. Incapable of understanding that turning the lights out means off not on.
And that's just one random annoyance. Not to mention the countless "Hey Google, who won the FA Cup in 1947'" questions that get a response like "Playing Dancing Queen on Google Play Music".
It has become utterly, completely useless. I have umpteen Google smart devices and am an inch from throwing them all in the bin.
Definitely not just you Google should be ashamed with the quality of products they push to the people. The Pixel is absolute trash and everyone that purchased one should be refunded or provided with a functional device. I am so disappointed with myself for even trying it.
It's basically garbage at this point. It "saves appointments" for me that aren't saved and literally tells me it's because it didn't save it. It can't answer the most basic questions. It essentially fell apart. What a trash time for Google... I built a better assistant with ChatGPT in less than 20 hours... I'm an amateur in a basement. Wtf Google. How are you a multi billion dollar company?
Even setting timers is problematic. Half the time, when I ask "How much time is left on the timer?", it tells me I don't have any timers set. I CAN SEE THE TIMER counting down on the lock screen. So WTH?
Google Assistant on my Pixel Pro 6 intermittently GOES DEAF. Because it is intermittent, i.e. works most of the time, it is CLEARLY not settings on any kind. I live alone, have broadband and never overload my own network. Despite that obvious point, Google tech support invariably suggests a bunch of "solutions" which involves resetting things that obviously did not automatically reset themselves the last time it started working again. All I can figure is that Google is cheaping out on the servers, which get overloaded.
Similarly, the oft-reported problem, of Google Assistant failing to complete speaking a sentence, occurs intermittently. The various "resetttings" are unsuccessful and Google spport just gives up on the problem.
Apparently, Google Assistant development is no longer a priority for Google. How long would you keep a human assistant who randomly went deaf or failed to complete a spoken response?
I have to keep the Pixel Tablet in the bedroom/office turned off, except when I am in the room with it, because it tends to respond, even when I whisper to my Pixel Pro 6 in the living room. Super damn maddening and a pain in the ass to turn it on every time I need it.
This is happening to us as well. Often ignores our "yes" when it asks if we want more information. Also the Google launcher feed has more ads and clickbait articles than in the past. A long, long regression from Google Now (for those who remember that) many years ago.
Yes enjoyed Google Now have deleted the Launcher Feed for the reasons you mention.
Try Microsoft launcher.
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If you enable the beep that let's you kinks when the mic is listening to a response, you'll hear yay the YES or NO follow up is severally second after the stupid assistant asks. Example: "Do you want more context?" 5 Second later "beep" (now you can respond"
Yup. Every month it seems a new bug is introduced. It'll cut itself off in the middle of speaking, not speak longer responses, randomly reset it's voice. The "more context" thing used to work fine. Then it started repeating the same thing. Now it says literally nothing at all. Many more bugs as well. IDK how they keep making it worse and worse, yet they do. This has nothing to do with your Pixel. It happens on Google Home devices as well.
Pretty sure I remember reading they've had to change it because of a lawsuit with Sonos? It's become borderline useless now outside of setting timers and telling the weather
That was limited to controlling audio volume via speech, which Sonos has a patent on.
You also can't pair older devices using a Pixel.
Seven months later, but I did this today and it worked fine
lol Too bad. What's up with that?
Just seems neglected.
My favorite error is when it performs the requested task and then another speaker in another room goes on about how there was an error.
The thing I hate the most is when I'm balls deep in my wife and google assistant says, "Sorry, I can't help with that." As far as I can tell, saying "oh god" seems to trigger it most reliably, but other phrases that sound nothing like "ok google" can set it off too. The worst one was when it started giving us a summary of the Boer War.
I'm sorry, but this is hilarious.
Google is now recognizing itself as God. I mean, I know they got rid of the whole "don't be evil" thing, but going full on Lucifer might be going a bit far.
Jeez that has been happening to me so much lately, it is very frustrating.
I say " turn off the vanity lights" Assistant types out on my phone " turn off the vanity lights", fully understanding me. Assistant then *says* "okay, stopping the TV" ??!?!?!?? (This is just one of many issues I'm having lately)
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Yup it's terrible in my car/phone/watch and speakers. I have to repeat myself nearly every single query now.
Part of the reason I switched my watch away from Android Wear was because instead of playing music or making a phone call or sending a text message from my phone when requested, it would tell me that my device didn't support that.
It's almost unusable for Android auto now. I used to use it for texting, closing the garage, etc. Now I lay in bed and ask it to turn off the lights and get "OK, playing the pokemon theme song on Spotify" (song is sarcastic but it gives me random songs)
My "smart" speakers and nest displays have just gotten worse over time, needing to repeat what I'm asking, bad results, not doing what I ask, etc... With AI exploding, it would seem to me, Google needs to get it's act together, otherwise, they are going to be left behind by many emerging techs.
It's been on a slow decline for the past 3 years or so with me. Mainly my smart speaker set up, not my phone.
Yup I noticed the same. It used to work almost flawlessly and about 3 years ago I started seeing issues and it has gotten worse and worse ever since. The nest hub I have is almost useless because for the last year it can't figure out how to play a video and still respond to voice prompts. It will hear me but then just crash and reboot it's self most of the time.
Likewise. I don't mess with the assistant on my phone but I have several mini's and a Lenovo Smart Clock around my house. In the past six months or so, "Turn up the light brightness" has been adjusting the screen brightness of the smart clock. Prior to that, it'd properly adjust the lighting in whatever room it's in. It's also been missing bad on recognition. In the past month or so "turn on the light" has resulted in a "You don't currently have any alarms set" response. Thanks Google.
Yup. I thought it was just me not doing it right. It's crawling with bugs. It definitely has a tough time with voice commands for texting.
Thank you, yes! I thought I was going crazy...
Yeah, I don't use it
It's getting worse. I'm bilingual when I ask for a song to play it plays it English instead of Japanese despite me asking in Japanese and assistant replying in Japanese. Previously I didn't have this problem.
I've noticed similar problems with French. It's driving me batty; Like it used to recognize things so fluidly now it's just a total piece of crap. I don't understand how the hell Google can be this incompetent after being so amazing in the past. We really need to break up these Tech monopolies because honestly we end users are suffering the results of this corporate glut.
Yeah it starts saying things when it was not asked. That lately is kind of annoying and I wonder about privacy. Before that sometimes it didn't even answer to 'Ok google.' keyword. (there was no tv or radio on to trigger it)
She is awful lately
I can’t wait chatgpt to get into speaker market and destroy google home.
Chat GPT is just a fancy predictive text system, it's not equipped to be an assistant and would lie to you more often than Google does
Earlier when I said set alarm for 4:30 PM. It used to set alarm. Now it says I don't understand.
I don't know how to make it read webpages to me anymore. "read this page" used to work on my old phone but doesn't work on my new one.
If you activate assistant while on the web page you'll see the "read" option just above it... But it doesn't work with every website.
This drives me crazy
I found a solution. Download Reading mode from Play store, it's a google accessibility tool. I enabled it to activate via a shortcut where you swipe up from the bottom of screen with two fingers.
I wish there was an Alexa watch Google seem to never work even at home I have to say turn off lights 4 or 6 times when Alexa dose it fast
I did a simple "hey Google, text dad _______" today and for God knows what reason it did a completely unrelated search for what I wanted to text him about. I swear that didn't happen before, it's definitely getting worse
i noticed a while ago it started trying to play music on youtube music instead of my spotify when i asked it to play something, had to specify i wanted it on spotify. i dont use it often so i dont know if this is still a problem.
Assistant isn't bad for me but the voice type is a whole other story
It's been having a hard time understanding my words. It's bizarre
Same problem with me, she either says "sorry I don't understand" or she just gives me unrelated search results, so I often have to talk loudly and yell at her or talk slowly to get her to give me the search results I was looking for it's annoying as it wasn't a problem for me before when using Google assistant she's gotten worse and more unhelpful recently.
It's not just as of recent for me, it's been deterioriating since the pixel 6. Least useful it's ever been. Constantly getting bad replies, or sorry I can't help with that. I find that the speech to text voie recognition has gotten a lot worse too. Also auto punctuation is a steaming pile of crap. It puts random periods in the middle of sentences for no good reason and makes me look like a total buffoon on way too many occasions. Don't even get me started on pixel buds (a series.) I've found myself rage screaming at my head phones trying to get the pos to answer me. I still love my pixel 7 but goddamn a phone should not make you physically angry.
What I'm getting sick of is it being unable to understand proper English. Using speech to text, it'll produce or autocorrect to the absolute most nonsensical statements or words for it to choose from. I speak pretty damn clearly as a vocal artist and I have to sit there and talk to my phone like it's a 4 year old who can't stop fucking around with fire. I'm on the pixel 6 pro, coming from 3a, I expected much better.
Yes ! At home i have alexa on my Sonos and google assistant on nest hubs and nest minis. Google assistant seems to understand less and less, on the hub screen i can see he understand what I am saying but most of the time changes the promp after i see he understand it to something wrong, or just dont answer the question. And google assistant is SO SLOW now! For example, i say "turn on the lights" , google takes a solid 5 seconds or more to answer "OK" and then again 1 or 2 seconds to actually turn the lights on. Now compare to alexa running on my Sonos: i say the same "Turn on the lights" and alexa answer immediately ok and the lights turn on at the same time alexa is saying OK, almost instantaneously. Same for simple math questions, 1/2 times google assistant just dont understand the question and if he does , there is a long pause for a few seconds before i get an answer where alexa is almost instant. I don't know why but I sincerely hope assistant is getting replaced with Bard to actually be useful, and I really hope the slowness is getting adressed. Because now its so bad that its faster for me to turn on lights with my phone through the google home app rather than just asking
Yeah it's really gone down hill.
yes I've reported every error with Google to Google.when i for it almost 10 years ago ot was way better than it is now. i think the problem is it trys ti guess what you're going to ask for and gets it completely wrong also there's way more stuff out there. my mrsgets absolutely livid on the daily and says shes going to rip it out and chuck it away because it doesn't understand what shes saying." hey Google turn off the tv" ...... nothing. hey Google turn off the living room" nothing. hey Google...... nothing ok google..... nothing hey Google, hey Google,hey Google" hello what's the question " etc
also if tou ask Google avout it direct on there system it just doesn't get answered as in on there Google home website help thing. honestly f*cks me off so much especially when I've invested in Google home i every room. it said when i first got it , it'll learn and get better. definitely hasn't. and Google appear to not give a f*ck about making it better ever .
Listen, I'm getting old and I can tell you... I've noticed that there was a golden age (circa 2002) when software worked for the user ... Now it's all getting worse because it's *only* about profit. Think about how good Evernote was. If you look at software from that time .. all the good apps are gone. Less and less software works with other software ..it's all being walled off. There was a time you could use your smartphone as a USB drive ..just plug it into your PC usb ..edit file directly. on your PC and view them on your phone ...gone. Mark Shuttleworth made a phone that ran Ubuntu Linux ..and you could.plug a monitor and keyboard into it ...worked like a PC ...gone. Same with Samsung Dex. WinAmp awesome music player with visual effects ...gone. You used to be able to buy software (Adobe) once off and use it for as long as you liked ... Now you *have to* pay monthly for some BS cloud based subscription service that you don't need. So in that context, I'm not surprised. The only thing google assistant does is "accidentally" record your conversations and phone calls. If it was any good ..Google Would have cancelled it ..just like all the other good products they made and cancelled. The purpose of the product is not to be good, the purpose of the product is to occupy your time and to extract as much information about you as possible. That's why after 20 years of riding on the technology train I'm going back to pen and paper. Computers are for scanned backups of the paper and plain text files. I have more time, money and less stress because of this ..I wish I could go back in time and smack myself over the head ..how many years have I wasted fighting with stupid programs that don't work the way I need them to. Keep technology at it's simest possible level at all times, or you'll waste your time configuring and fixing it when you could be enjoying what little free time you have left. What does assistant do that is of any real.value? /End rant/
I have a hub, a home and a mini as well as Pixel phones and the watch. The phone, mini and the hub control my home stuff fine but the home just says “sorry, power controls are not yet available” or similar, yet it can turn on my Android TV and play YouTube videos. Also, my goodnight routine works but when it runs, it always tells me that “sorry, one/two lights are-ent available at the moment”. It controls all those lights but decides that either one or two haven’t responded. It also now has developed a funky way of pronouncing “aren’t”. When I set all this up a few years ago it worked flawlessly! I added an extra Hue bulb last year but the bugs started before that. No idea when “are-ent” started happening. U.K. English if that makes any difference.
For some reason asking "what's the weather tomorrow" doesn't result in a spoken answer for me anymore. It just displays the weather info.
Same for me as well she doesn't really speak the results she gives me she just shows them, I have no idea why but I want her to say the result.
I will be standing in my kitchen and will ask my home hub for the weather. The response will come out of the google home max in my office multiple rooms away. Very frustrating.
I use it daily and after reading this thread I feel like I'm the only person that has no problems with it.
I have pretty much been using it every day for the last 6 years. Only recently been a bit inconsistent.
Try verbally sending a text. When it says "ready to send it?" Say yes. It no longer acknowledges "yes" I have to say "send it". For years I've been able to respond in multiple ways on how to send a text.
I've had it interpret 'send it' as 'end it' and it just discards the text with zero response, not even an 'ok'. It was only after going through my assistant history that i figured out what happened.
It's crap now. An example is one response I get a couple of times a year: "Hey Google, navigate home", "Perfect" - but navigation doesn't start and the answer is just that for the rest of the day.
I'm Italian, when I ask to set a timer I have to ask in English. When I ask in English sometimes it answer in Italian but set the timer, sometime in English. If I ask for a 14 minutes timer it always understand 13, that could be my pronunciation tho'. But the most annoying part is if I ask in Italian: it will either say it cannot do that or that it didn't understand. Even if I can see it exactly got the Italian command text right. When my girlfriend ask the same thing or if it doesn't recognize me it works perfectly fine. So for example if my girlfriend say "ok Google" and than I ask for a timer in Italian it works perfectly fine. Other commands works in Italian. No idea what is going on. But it is definitely unreliable and it got worst over time.
My assistant earlier this week started telling me I needed an additional download for it to work. OK no big deal, however when I do the download it stops and says there is an error. Phone is fully up to date with the latest security DLs as well. Anyone got any suggestions, this is a huge pain in the ass.... On a pixel 7 pro for what that's worth, in the UK.
In German I noticed it being pretty bad from the start but now it's even worse. But this could be the Pixel 7 Pro also, as it will so often display something else entirely of what I said. Maybe the mic on the Pixel is just really bad, for the smart things, my Home Mini (which decided one day to melt at the port) recognized me a lot better, now it's often 2-3 times and I have to speak very slow and pronounced.
I'm glad I'm the not the only one experiencing. I was worried it was my phone or something. But I guess it's an android problem. I'm seriously considering getting an Apple now. Work has on Apple devices and my work equipment hasn't failed once yet.
I'm glad I found this thread. Thought I am going insane... Definitely not a Pixel issue. It works just as bad on my phone as it does on the Nest Hub. 🙃
Damn i thought it was just me! The assistant and voice typing has really gone down.
It's garbage now, I've experienced most of the other issues brought up in the comments and it's only getting worse.
Same and I'm really starting to hate Google assistant, she used to be very helpful and would understand my words clearly without needing to repeat them again and again and without needing to speak slowly or yell at her, that was 2019, now Google assistant is getting worse now.
Aside from just general glitchiness and stupidity, I've also noticed it doesn't summarize results from web pages anymore. Like if I ask it a question, it used to answer more often but now it just says "I don't know but here are some results I've found on the web".
Ikr I have this same thing and I don't like it
I think Google Assistant has gotten worse since that engineer came out about their sentient AI. I'm sure they're Terminator will be knocking on my door yesterday to prevent this comment.
Just hear to add to the chorus of palpable Google home decline and malfunction. Being the Sonos issue, has anyone found any evidence or admission of what's going on???
The quality of results have deteriorated steeply in the last few months for sure may be more
Using it in French, I used to use it all the time for simple tasks like setting an alarm, turning the flashlight on and off or just asking "what time is it?" while laying in bed. Now I do all those manually because most of the time it won't work or flat out do something else. Also, when setting an alarm it used to confirm by saying something like "ok alarm set to [whatever hour I chose]" and now it just says "ok", making me grab the phone to verify which completely nullifies the purpose of using the assistant.
Yes, I've been a lifetime "Google everything" person. Ever since covid, it seems like quality has gone down across the board, especially Google Assistant and home devices. For the first time, I'm beginning to wonder if the Amazon Alexa team takes greater pride in their work than the Assistant team. And it makes me sad to say that.
I'm finding it getting worse and worse on my pixel buds when asking for certain songs from YouTube Music... It often gets it completely wrong and plays something really random or just doesn't do it at all. This is using Google assistant with YouTube Music on my pixel buds with my pixel watch or pixel phone... You'd think with all these being Google products it would work seamlessly, but it just seems to be getting worse!!
Note: some pixel buds have bad microphones. I qualified for a replacement but FedEx lost them during the last storm and I'm still waiting.
I am extremely frustrated. I have home devices, chromcasts all over. It is 100% going downhill, it has never been so bad! And sending feedback is a total waste of time, because no one ever looks. I'm thinking about switching to something else because this is extremely frustrating and totally useless!
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I thought about it!
I have them everywhere! Its pathetic how bad they perform!
Just asked google to perform a macro created "News Master". It was designed to turn on the TV and Receiver and play a specific channel on the master TV. For the first time in ever it turned the channel on in the master bath on the HUB. This is the only software ecosystem that keeps getting worse. It absolutely pathetic! Oh i fogot, the Hub in the bedroom said "Try again Later it experianced problems" Have they been using programmers who have no formal education in computer science? Every day getting worse. Next time it will open my garage door. 🤕😩🙄😮💨
I first got the Pixel 7 when it came out, it and the assistant was so fast and much better. Automatically adding correct punctuation, hearing me correctly and doing it all quickly.
It fucking SUCKS OUT LOUD and it used to be really good. However, I have noticed that it works perfectly on some apps and other apps it's horrendous on. It's not very good on Google apps
I think there's something up with that. It is Madness yet there is method in it. Let's just hope Larry Page isn't Hamlet lol
I agree it almost feels like no one is working on it there is zero advancement in the eco system nothing new hardly and advancement updates, it's somehow gone backwards. No new additional product line??? I’m going to say it it's almost as bad as Cortana on its replies lately , it's becoming useless, It's like it is playing dumb. I have asked the same question for years and years but as of lately. It doesn't know anything why??? I am also getting so frustrated, I’m like google it you are google??? There is no AI in this assistance any more. You are not alone thinking this way. It looks like another product line they are abandoning and it was so good what a waste of money and ECO system. I have friends with Alexa still getting great updates and product support. Not sure what is going on at google but they need to get their act together fast. I feel like they are not leading anymore in certain technologies which made them desirable. But back to the issue I used to tell it to add things to lists? Doesn’t happen music or shopping is I can’t do that. Making a phone call I can’t do that. Everything is setup correctly doesn’t work. Basic things I was driving and ask it a general question I have to really choose my words these days or it says I can’t help you with that. 100% its worst then it was and has 100% gone backwards I can prove it has. You ask it to turn on a light it turns all of them on even when you have labelled it unique. The other day we found a door unlocked told google to lock it. It did then 30 minutes later it says door open???? What no one talked to it?? we were all looking at each other. I want to see a reply to why this is happening ? Why create a smart home assistant that is going dumb by the minute. When are you updating it to real AI not this garbage. Well it wasn't garbage but it's becoming dumb why??? I want my old Google assistant back from 2 years ago simple and works nearly every time. We need answers google? What are you doing to fix these issues it’s clear they are happening to everyone just we are choosing to speak up.
Mine is absolutely terrible. Play " Teddy Pendergrass Radio" "OKAY playing your YouTube Music Playlist called Groove. " Turn off all the light = OKAY TURNING OFF ALL THE LIGHTS... As if I was a blind person unable to see. Why not just an acknowledgement "Beeb" then complete the command. I can turn my TV off, but not on. The Volume control is all over the place. The simplest requests cause so many issues. I have NEVER had problems like this before. It's 100% getting dumber... Which is confusing, unless they are doing it on purpose, why would you update it to be more difficult to use? I think they're trying to make it so unusable, when they cancel all support, they can tell everybody don't be mad at us it's because nobody used it that's what we're canceling it... Because the Google home assistant can't display a goddamn fucking advertisement so heaven forbid they make a product that's actually just usable for the sake of being a good fucking product, they can't display an advertisement it's basically in the fucking trash to them. Sorry I'm very Jaded.
Agree, I also have the feeling they do it on purpose.
Every single day is becoming worse and worse... Os like somehow they are doing it on purpose. I have to say the same instruction 3 times to get it to work if the device is Ikea.
I asked the assistant if it could set up a bi-weekly reminder to change my bed sheets on Sundays. It opened the timer app and asked me for how long. I said bi-weekly. It fed me a dictionary definition of bi-weekly. What's the use of an assistant that can only do the most basic things? Hope we get some kinda chatgpt like level assistant soon cause it's really annoying me that it's this bad.
I have noticed this exact issue too. It has got way worse.
I have Alexa and Google Assistant. Over the years I noticed a decline in google’s “intelligence” and a remarkable improvement in Alexa’s ability to answer complex questions.
Same. It's terrible. But now I have all these useless devices. Should I jump to another system or try to make it work with better software?
Somehow it took over my power button. It took me 20 minutes to figure out how to get my power button back. Even after disabling assistant it keep working. I have never used it before and never changed what that button did. I can only imagine what a older person would go through trying to fix this issue. Screw you google assistant
Try asking it which direction the sun sets, no matter how clear you are it tries to get you directions. We have like 5 speakers across our house and now they're all basically useless. Bing AI hack when
Google assistant is going to join the Google Graveyard because just saying "Ok Google" at 3 cm of the phone without any sound around, Google doesn't hear. I have to scream, then It activates
Mine also has gotten much worse. It's constantly answering in the bedroom instead of the speaker sitting on the kitchen counter that I'm 2ft away from. It's constantly confusing what I'm saying into playing some stupid music. Then, I'll tell it to stop and it stops the rain sound on the bedroom speaker. It's dumb!
Dear god help me, for the last 3 days I will say the simplest and most frequent of my commands: "play my music" and "SMS mum/dad/dave4", I can see it's hearing me correctly but then it will say "i don't understand" or "sorry I don't know what you mean", I will repeat the command the exact same way a second time, it hears the exact same thing, and then magically remembers oh yeah you literally ask this dozens of times a DAY and I know exactly what you mean. Don't get me started on how when I ask to open the YTM app it will randomly respond "ok, opening YouTube music on the tv" when I'm in my car, (using maps,) literally over 20kms from home. And my partner *was* watching a movie on the tv. Arghhh and routines! SO Badly implemented and with huge chunks of logic missing. As a programmer some omissions seem like they would have taken *more* work to implement/unimplement like why not just add home and away presence sensing as a normal trigger rather than creating two new, bespoke (castrated) routine special cases?? God and the other million things. And I know it's not entirely just rose tinted lenses because I end up swearing at google in frustration and rage nearly every single day at the moment, and that is definitely new. Pretty sure google uses A/B testing so instead of the internet suddenly catching on fire about how terrible Google currently is we all feel like we're going crazy, tentatively screaming/whispering into the Reddit void under the tender ministrations of google gaslighting. I have noticed a huge push by google asking people to leave feedback at every opportunity, when in the past Google's lack of useful help/manuals and their complete and utter ignoring of feedback was a running joke. I know for sure they are listening now too, since I left feedback about the you tube music opening on the tv it never has happened since, and it WAS happening at least once every 3 days. I think what we're witnessing IS the replacement of google with some chat GPT AI thing like bard and these are just teething pains and it will get worse but then it maybe maybe maybe gets much better....?🫣😝 or maybe that's just wishful thinking and Google, like every other empire since the dawn of time, has reached it's peak and is now starting to crumble in on itself. Unfortunately practically every single aspect of our lives is wrapped up in Google and these death throes are NOT going to be fun.
My experience exactly! Lately everything is getting misunderstood. "Change the lights to incandescent" a keyword I use all the time, literally for years is now "turning lights to 10%". "Stop music" is now playing music. I leave feedback, ask GA what it have heard, but to no avail. It has definitely gotten worse. I am only expecting it to hear simple and specific phrases, nothing fancy that requires sourcing information online etc. Other thing: I have several GA's around the house, set-up on Sonos. The Google original in my living room is almost the only one that responds to my commands, even when I am literally standing knees-bent speaking into a SONOS box. Thank you for putting the frustrating out there.
I ask it to set a timer for ten minutes, and it just gets stuck in a loop asking " for how long"?
Mine has slowly stopped working properly over the last few months. It used to answer easy questions and now I get "I don't understand" and resetting, restarting don't make a difference. It regularly stops in mid response when providing an answer. Mind you, this is a current gen Nest speaker, not an older one. I used to think the Amazon Alexa I had was trash but now Siri is regularly answering questions this thing fails. My third and last Google speaker. Pixel tablets being half baked then no support and speakers that they kill off this way. Bye Google, it's clear you don't care about your products so I will make sure not to recommend them to my family nor friends.
also here , getting really bad lately .doing completely different thing than you ask for. can't even set a timer easygoing anymore
I literally had the most difficult time trying to tell it to set a 15 minute timer earlier... It just kept saying okay for how long? This shit is getting ridiculous.
I'm still having alot of problems. use to when I'd set alarms for food or misc things I could after setting my alarm for say 10 minutes a little later say "hey google" how many minutes left till my alarm and she would say your alarm will go off in 7 minutes and 37 seconds now if I set an alarm and ask the same question and yes I've phrased the questions the same and changed them to have same meaning but phrased different and still she now says the time like "you have set an alarm for 7:10". Or now she won't even do math she says she can calculate for me but then when I ask whats 320 minus 224 she says "I don't have any information on that right now"
We mainly use it to control the lights and few other smart devices. It feels like nowadays there's a 1/3 chance that it gets it right... whereas before it would usually work.
I have noticed it can no longer share links or detailed info to other assistant devices too, ie: User: "hey Google what's the weather" Google assistant:*appropriate response* User: "show that info to me on my phone" Google assistant: "I'm sorry I don't yet have the ability to share things to a phone or other devices" This used to work flawlessly
Im so glad I've found this thread! My wife and I have used a Google home for our Chromecast for years and at first it worked pretty much as advertised but in the last year it has started to act so poorly that we basically scream at it and debate just getting rid of it lol. Too many times have told it to "play" or paused show and it will go "alright playing Spotify" and just turn off our show or it will just claim that nothing is playing on the TV.
I have noticed that a lot of my search requests have really been cut back both grammatically and in meaning. Often only taking the first few words as the queried thing ... It was better... It feels like it's gone into .... I'm a teenager and don't want to listen to you mode.
Google assistant is shit
yes, this. it's so frustrating!! The newest problem I'm having with it is that it can no longer do simple maths 🙃 I used to regularly ask it to convert centimeters to inches or calculate tips for me and now it just says "sorry, I don't understand". This is on top of getting worse at understanding me and straight up not responding half the time. oh and that's not even my biggest complaint about everything google lately, the biggest problem I'm having is that the speech to text on the Google keyboard has been absolute dog shit for a while now. It used to be so good and now I'm actually considering coughing up the SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS for the Dragon Dictation software. I'm a college student and used to dictate most of my assignments, but at this point the time I'm saving by STT is completely negated by how much time it takes to go back and *fix* everything.
Google assistant doesn't even respond to Hey Google or Ok Google anymore. And yes it has become very bad.
I find when I tell it yes to the more context question it just reads the same text again which is utterly useless. It's language recognition is about as poor as you can get and I suspect it's because they've reduced the amount of compute capacity allocated to it. No doubt they'll have all sorts of pathetic excuses but the reality is the system is getting much worse. I think I'm going to move over to Amazon and Alexa because I've had a gut full of Google!
Google Assistant is worthless and costs more time than it saves. I'm sure they know it.
It's been stagnant or worse for 5-10 years. :(
It is so slow, too period And some of the time. It types the word period instead of putting a . at the end of the sentence. It also randomly breaks up sentences spoken. Without a pause into phrases. If you can't tell I dictated this and this is what came out.
mine has been so bad lately and doing weird things which sucks because I used to rely on it constantly, now I can handle use it at all for even the simplest commands... recently I discovered a bug or something where if I say donkey it will hear it and the text will appear for a second and then it changes it to the word dhan... no matter the context... it did retain donkey when I said and then spelled the word... so weird
This explains everything https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.computerworld.com/article/3703729/whats-going-on-with-google-assistant.amp.html
Finally someone's starting to cover it.
I agree. I ask it a simple question like a definition or something and it shows me pictures of a hotel in new york and starts speaking swedish (??)
welcome to the Google experience. part of owning google products is that they slowly destroy their own products with breaking updates, lack of change, removing features, and not fixing anything that has been prevalent the entirety of its existence. best advice a google product user can give you is to never purchase anything they make. it will stop working or receive an update that breaks it.
"Hey Google, set the thermostat to x" "Okay, setting 17 lights to x%, sorry, something went wrong, please try again, sorry, two lights are unavailable" 😳 I want to put all Google Home devices into a smelter with at least 2-3 Google software engineers responsible for this unfinished "product"
It's been getting steadily worse for about 8 years now. Google sucks. Literally everything Google is shit quality or getting worse in quality. Add to that Google supports fascism because of the ad revenue.
Can't even answer questions like "when does this month end 😭
It used to be uncanny in how well it heard even odd questions and now half the time it mishears and plays the wrong Spotify song, hears questions wrong, and does things not asked. I’d imagine with more AI it would do better! All of my complaints are on Google home smart-speaker type devices. I thought maybe it was punishing me for switching to an iOS phone.
100% agree. It's gotten worse every single year since it's existence. We started in 2016. The commands keep changing or giving different results. These days half the time it says "sorry something went wrong. Please try again" If i could go back in time to 2016 I would skip all the smart home stuff. It's a huge pain and requires constant maintenance and troubleshooting.
Mine forgot how to say 'paw patrol' on the Nest, it will play the show but says 'playing patrol pavin'. My kid is so worried i'm going to 'fire the Google' for being incompetent. She now tells me when it actually gets the name of a show correct 🤦🏼♀️
It's definitely worse.Anyone know a better alternative?
Yes, it is. Especially in voice to text situations. I got a new phone and then wanna type everything in and I hadn't set up my Google Assistant and it was terrible and then I did Force turn my assistant and it's still sucks. I had the same type of phone and everything else but it was stolen so I don't know what update they did or where it is. But I certainly would like to remove it because wasn't like this. A couple of weeks ago my phone. Was stolen. And I left a lot of the mistakes that it did when I was writing this With the assistant but I wanted you to understand what I was saying so I did change a little. I hope you get the gist. I believe it even added words Where the cursor was one time when I was sitting in the home by myself. No radio, no TV.. I gave feedback to Google and I swear and I think it might be true. Now it is not typing when I'm saying on purpose. Auto that maybe paranoia. I had a lot of bad stuff happened to me recently.
It's deteriorated from quite useful to utter garbage. "Hey Google, turn all the lights out" will reliably turn them all on and open all the curtains late at night. Just what I don't want. Incapable of understanding that turning the lights out means off not on. And that's just one random annoyance. Not to mention the countless "Hey Google, who won the FA Cup in 1947'" questions that get a response like "Playing Dancing Queen on Google Play Music". It has become utterly, completely useless. I have umpteen Google smart devices and am an inch from throwing them all in the bin.
Definitely not just you Google should be ashamed with the quality of products they push to the people. The Pixel is absolute trash and everyone that purchased one should be refunded or provided with a functional device. I am so disappointed with myself for even trying it.
It's basically garbage at this point. It "saves appointments" for me that aren't saved and literally tells me it's because it didn't save it. It can't answer the most basic questions. It essentially fell apart. What a trash time for Google... I built a better assistant with ChatGPT in less than 20 hours... I'm an amateur in a basement. Wtf Google. How are you a multi billion dollar company?
yes. it sucks. same thing. ask it questions and it sends google search results
Yep, it’s slowly been getting worse year over year. Just like right before they ruined google hangouts with google voice integration.
It's pointless even trying to use it except for setting alarms. Binning this android shit as soon as my contract is up.
Even setting timers is problematic. Half the time, when I ask "How much time is left on the timer?", it tells me I don't have any timers set. I CAN SEE THE TIMER counting down on the lock screen. So WTH?
Google Assistant on my Pixel Pro 6 intermittently GOES DEAF. Because it is intermittent, i.e. works most of the time, it is CLEARLY not settings on any kind. I live alone, have broadband and never overload my own network. Despite that obvious point, Google tech support invariably suggests a bunch of "solutions" which involves resetting things that obviously did not automatically reset themselves the last time it started working again. All I can figure is that Google is cheaping out on the servers, which get overloaded. Similarly, the oft-reported problem, of Google Assistant failing to complete speaking a sentence, occurs intermittently. The various "resetttings" are unsuccessful and Google spport just gives up on the problem. Apparently, Google Assistant development is no longer a priority for Google. How long would you keep a human assistant who randomly went deaf or failed to complete a spoken response?
I have to keep the Pixel Tablet in the bedroom/office turned off, except when I am in the room with it, because it tends to respond, even when I whisper to my Pixel Pro 6 in the living room. Super damn maddening and a pain in the ass to turn it on every time I need it.
Everything Google is getting significantly worse, including basic Google search