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I switched back because it was useless with YouTube Music. It refused to switch apps to honor a request.

"Play Stairway to Heaven"

"Stairway to Heaven isn't available in Pocketcast"

"I know this, dumb Google Assistant knows this, why don't you know this?"

"Would you like me to discuss the Peloponnesian War?"

"I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU!!!"
Just a point here.. AI needs educating... tell it what it got wrong and ask it to remember what you've taught it.. Most AI will tie what you've trained to your logged in account so the next time it gets it right.. This is the big difference between AI and basic "limited" hard coded responses. Since there are so many more answers you have to teach it.. the good news is that if you telling to play Stairway to Heaven using YouTube music or more precisely you tell it to remember that when you ask it to play music always use YouTube music it should always remember that going forward except when you tell it, this time one time play it on Amazon Music or Spotify or whatever it has access to.
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I had an interesting experience this weekend when I was picking up people at the airport...

The route I took, took me by the office so I figured I'd drop some stuff off, no worries there.

On my way there I ask Gemeni when the flight (correct flight number and everything) would arrive... Flight is late by 15min 11.20, OK cool, I got 15min extra at the office.

I arrive, I do my thing, and just to double check that everything is still on for 11.20 I pull out my phone and check regular google - flight arriving early, 10.55 - wtf !?

I hop in the car and start driving because now I'm late instead... ask Gemeni the same thing... flight late, 11.20

Arrive at the airport, people say they landed, regular google say they landed, Gemeni still insists on 11.20

I get that Gemeni isn't perhaps updated as fast / frequently (you'd think they have access to the same data) but if it's lagging behind 30-60min or whatever the number is, then it's not that great for in vehicle use.
 

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Just a point here.. AI needs educating... tell it what it got wrong and ask it to remember what you've taught it.. Most AI will tie what you've trained to your logged in account so the next time it gets it right.. This is the big difference between AI and basic "limited" hard coded responses. Since there are so many more answers you have to teach it.. the good news is that if you telling to play Stairway to Heaven using YouTube music or more precisely you tell it to remember that when you ask it to play music always use YouTube music it should always remember that going forward except when you tell it, this time one time play it on Amazon Music or Spotify or whatever it has access to.
I thought it was a matter of education but it refused to learn. If I told it to "open YouTube Music and play Stairway to Heaven," it couldn't do it. When I told it to play all music in YouTube Music it agreed but then never opened YouTube Music to play music.

When my kids would ask me to play a song while I was listening to a podcast I had to open YouTube Music and start a song manually before I could ask Gemini Assistant to play a song. It was too distracting for something the old dumb assistant did right every time.
 

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What I'm waiting for is the ability to change to a voice that you really want. Like Mr. T giving you directions: "I pity da poor fool that don't take the next left!"
 

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What I'm waiting for is the ability to change to a voice that you really want. Like Mr. T giving you directions: "I pity da poor fool that don't take the next left!"
If you use Waze, you just may find Mr T available. They have tons of installable voices! As for AA, Gemini voices, I had been so used to Orbit as my gemini assistant voice, but sometimes it uses the old Google assistant voices. It's confusing!
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