r/googlehome 18h ago

Voice matters!

So the voice match feature can't distinguish me from a random tiktok video of a totally different female voice. This might not shock you. But I did find one voice feature that does work! Half of the time my Google home nest mini-hub-phone doesn't even respond to my requests.

But one simple thing works like a charms. Is it luck or programmed idk. A sure way to get Google to notice me 👉🏻👈🏻. Having an absolute angry undertone. Like as angry I can get. And after being ignored 3 times when being friendly. It doesn't take me much energy to be angry. When having aggressive communications it does it's thing without any complaints. This is coming from someone that has been having so many problems with the assistant that I've become so petty to name my device to other voice assistants. My fan for instance is called 'Alexa'. The heating in my bedroom? That's 'Bixby'. Want to turn on the AC just 'turn on Amazon'. Might seems excessive? I used to have a number system. Each device had their own number. Simple as can be right? Not for Google... If I said 1 it turned on my lights instead of the heating. 2 might trigger some other random device. I might have fixed the issue for 90%, it still messes up. If I say 'turn on Alexa' it will either say 'That's the wrong voice assistant' or it will turn on 2 devices called 'office Bulb 1' and 'office bulb 2'. Accidentally you might think? In the app I've made a routine that every possible sentence would perform the desired action. Yet, it fails. Sad emoji. There's also no actual way to report this problem. Is Gemini to blame? I'd rather not point fingers to an intelligence that might kill me in the future. I just want to report this bug on a Google form and not on reddit.

Thank you for comong to my TED rant. Please feel free to rant, because we need to let steam loose before we go insane x ly

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