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The all-new Google Home speaker has finally arrived for $100
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return2ozma lemmy.world return2ozma@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Link: https://www.engadget.com/2194871/the-all-new-google-home-speaker-has-finally-arrived-for-100/
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ExtremeDullard piefed.social ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-25
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Google opted for a ring of LEDs around the speaker's base to provide more dynamic feedback when its mic is on and listening to commands or responding to questions.

Yeah... no.
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dom lemmy.ca dom@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-09
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Gemini is unusable as a smart assistant. Im desperately waiting for more advances in the home assistant voice project
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sandwichsaregood lemmy.world sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-04
#4 · (edited) Quote Reply
dom wrote:
Gemini is unusable as a smart assistant. Im desperately waiting for more advances in the home assistant voice project

Its interesting, I have the HA Voice Preview and I've been trying out using Gemini as the brains. Yes I know this defeats the point, but it's an experiment and I wanted to see how the normal Flash model handles things.

It works great, nearly perfect. So whatever they have done to lobotomize their existing devices/assistant over the last year or so is not just Gemini being bad at it.
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SanguinePar lemmy.world sanguinepar@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
#5 · Quote Reply

"Finally"!
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dom lemmy.ca dom@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-09
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sandwichsaregood wrote:
Its interesting, I have the HA Voice Preview and I've been trying out using Gemini as the brains. Yes I know this defeats the point, but it's an experiment and I wanted to see how the normal Flash model handles things. It works great, nearly perfect. So whatever they have done to lobotomize their existing devices/assistant over the last year or so is not just Gemini being bad at it.

So strange. Im using open ai on ha and it hasn't been great. Maybe I try gemini ironically
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