▲ 257 ▼ Google lays off employees working on its voice assistant (www.businessinsider.com) submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 39 comments fedilink hide all child comments Google lays off employees working on its voice assistant::Up to 20 employees working on Google's Assistant team have been cut.
[–] realharo@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (3 children) It works reasonably well for timers, alarms and weather. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago Mine is a glorified kitchen timer that occasionally plays Spotify while I do dishes. permalink fedilink source parent [–] slumberlust@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago Except that it ALWAYS continues to listen after the command and you have to yell at it to fuck off. permalink fedilink source parent [–] wrinkletip@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago Oh really? I can no longer get it to set a recurring alarm every monday through thursday. It's just not understanding any of the commands there that it did before. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago Mine is a glorified kitchen timer that occasionally plays Spotify while I do dishes. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] slumberlust@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago Except that it ALWAYS continues to listen after the command and you have to yell at it to fuck off. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wrinkletip@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago Oh really? I can no longer get it to set a recurring alarm every monday through thursday. It's just not understanding any of the commands there that it did before. permalink fedilink source parent