• Bageler@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Voice typing is a game changer if you break a hand. I did a semester of college writing several essays a week with 99% voice typing.

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      I have only very recently come around on that. When voice commands first came out, they were absolute garbage. I am still conditioned to never expect them to work, and am always pleasantly surprised when they do.

      To be fair, I largely only use them for things like setting my alarm, because I still have an engrained expectation that they won’t work otherwise.

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        1 year ago

        Genuine question, so they actually work better now?

        I mostly use it to set timers and alarms, but once in a while i set reminders but they often come out like i need to buy “dead foot”, when I’m out of cat food for example

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          Things I use it for with almost 100% accuracy: Timers, Alarms, Lights, Pausing/Playing TV.

          Things I use it for with like 70% accuracy: Weather and anything interfacing with maps. To be entirely fair to it though, I live in a non-English speaking country and use voice assistants in English usually, so city/place names REALLY throw it. If I change the voice assistant to my local language and use it, it works a lot better.

          I have honestly never tried setting a reminder because my brain is still rooted in early voice control tech where something like that would never conceivably work.

    • FuyuhikoDate@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      Depends…

      Patent of a Baby?

      Voice command is ya friend

      Having a smart home?

      Voice command is awesome for being lazy (unfrotunatally i love my privacy so i cannot use Stuff like that right now…)

      Cooking something and both Hands are gross as f***?

      Hell Yeah Voice command to Set a Timer :D

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        I think it’s the one area I’m a Luddite. I really should use voice commands on my smart home stuff because the apps are trash. But it still feels weird. Silly mental block.