The three biggest players in voice assistants –– Google, Apple and Amazon –– have radically different approaches to profiling users, Northeastern University researchers say.

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    I loved my Google Home when I got it in 2017, but when I got into home automation, I realized it is dumb to have to tell a device to do things. Motion sensors basically replace the main thing Google Home does and a Bluetooth speaker is cheap to buy.

    I never trusted that they weren’t listening to me all the time with the speakers and I never looked back after I donated them away.

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      Yeah, just having a microphone in the house with some predefined voice controls which you can go and change gives you all of the benefits of a Google home with none of the Google bullshit.

      Especially now with LLMs getting so big, just go set up voice-to-text ollama session with predefined prompts and responses

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        16 hours ago

        That handles automation, but can’t freestyle questions.

        “Hey Google, convert (metric) to (Imperial).”

        “Hey Google, weather today?”

        “Hey Google, what’s the capital of Kakistan?”

        I have a ceiling-mounted mini in almost every room and just toss questions around while I work or play. Or, just ask it to play music. (Which went to shit when I cancelled Spotify.)

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          Or, just ask it to play music. (Which went to shit when I cancelled Spotify.)

          I learned how to get Home assistant working JUST to restore this feature. Fuck you Google for not supporting other services despite supporting controlling them once it starts going ugh