I was shocked when I couldn’t switch back to Google Assistant today. I had tried out gemini for months a while back, and it does not control my phone well. I don’t need advanced AI to remind me to move the laundry in two hours or remind me of my mother’s birthday each year. Or to queue up a specific song on spotify. Also, advanced AI is cumbersome at those things. It’s a real bummer.

I’m assuming this is a way to artificially inflate user numbers to shareholders.

This sucks.

  • FoxAlive@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Pixel hardware has the capabilities to do local ai stuff. At the baremin I know its capable of auido transcribing on its own hardware.

    I would look into if there’s a Foss project for pixels that can run a local voice assistant. Because its just pointing at a app in the settings and making it default it shouldn’t be hard to find.

    The only other option I can think of is setting up a home server with the services you need and using things like davx to sync info to your phone. I know you can run a local voice assistant there no problem, but I never tinkered around enough with home assistant to understand how to get everything the way you want. It sounded like setting up a million little automations on my phone, and then also on home assistant. I have grand disillusionment I’ll get around to setting it up by the end of this year but I don’t think that’s happening.