Does anybody actually give a shit about voice assistants beyond setting timers and alarms?

Does anybody actually give a shit about voice assistants beyond setting timers and alarms?

Has anyone ever wanted to book a restaurant through google assistant or siri?

No. I think only americans do.
I don't think there even is a voice assistant available in my native language. I have played around with them before, but never seriously used them.

I think voice assistants in their current form are only somewhat useful, but they can become very important part of humanity's future by being the core building block for (humanoid) robots.

>I don't think there even is a voice assistant available in my native language
AFAIK, our best chance to get voice assistant that supports many languages is one of the few open source voice assistant projects, Mycroft.
For me personally, it would be necessary for personal assistant to speak my language in order for me to use it.

>beyond setting timers and alarms?
How are you so autistic that you can't set an alarm without asking the device to do it for you?

And to sort of answer your question they have some purpose in handsfree moments, like if you are driving and you want to find the nearest gas station or whatever.

Used Cortana once several years ago.

Was far too drunk to use my phone and told the bitch to take me to McDonalds.

It worked pretty well.

Macfags love gimmicks that they will never use. Most of them have no life outside of starbucks and tumblr.

We are putting highly sophisticated and intelligent devices in the hands of stupid people who take it for granted. Technology is far more powerful than we will ever need it to be because most of us just waste time surfing the web and watching porn regardless.

Should add, this was while walking the streets of a city I'd never been to before, had no fucking clue where I was.

No, if I have to pick my phone up then I don't want to talk to it. As soon as they make it so I don't have to touch the thing at all I may consider just speaking at it.

It's useful while cooking, but you wouldn't know anything about that.

No just a useless meme. Automation will come about but not in a disembodied voice that's extremely inefficient and inaccurate for doing anything useful.

You're fapping and your hands are covered in lube & shit, but your favorite TV show is starting in an hour and you don't want to miss it.

>And to sort of answer your question they have some purpose in handsfree moments, like if you are driving and you want to find the nearest gas station or whatever.

I do this while driving. "Directions to ", "Show in the area", "Call ".

I've tried dictating text replies. Too many typos and misunderstandings for my taste.

I'd imagine visually impaired people find them useful.

I don't even use the voice assistant, I do everything manually cause I don't want to feed Apple/Google's machine learning meme nor do I want to fall for the botnet.
Fuck the niggers that actually use Siri and Google Now as anything more than as a neat little party trick.

I don’t think so, that’s how they get ya.

We use SIRI for in-car navigation. Just tell "her" where you want to go and "she" calls the corners.
Sometimes leaves her calls a bit late but if we miss a turn she'll work out another route on the fly that doesn't involve a U-turn.

I think it's just so blind people can use smartphones, I never use it.

I might would use them unironically if they ran locally on my own computer/phone instead of in the cloud of multinational companies.

Cortana has speech recognition on par or superior to human speech recognition.

they are useful for hands free in cars

>No. I think only americans do.
American, I've never actually encountered anyone using one for anything other than a joke. Just because American ads show it used doesn't mean shit.

You do relalize microsoft and google have the same shit you dumb fuck

Yea ive never seen anybody use it aside from the siri divide by 0 meme

Even then I still don't use them
I'd just rather put that shit in myself without voice assist but that's just my preference

I think he's saying Macfags are more prone to that kind of thing, winblows and google fags don't care.

I use it to send texts while driving and go dial a number while driving so I can focus on the road.

That's about it

bit of a retarded bold statement to make desu

>100% of mac users book restaurants
>100% of google/windows users don't

i'd love to see his facts, probably realistically a mixed bag either way

I use voice assistance to get times of Sup Forumsorts games and to see what movies are playing in my area.

But Motorola has this for years.

Play with it whenever I get a new phone, to see how things progress.
Always end-up disabling the Google app altogether after a few hours, because muh battery > usefulness of this shit, (And add a little fear of always on, always listening botnet).

Google's voice assistant is very helpful. I use it to easily check the weather forecast, send messages, remind me to pick things up when I get near the store, do calculations without needing to open the calculator, check sports scores, do currency conversion, quickly and easily get navigation directions by car or public transport, view upcoming bills and check the status of my flights.

And you sound like a walking ad for Google.

I use it in the car too

Trying to find uses really..

fuck yeah dude and I'm buying a Google Home too.

I used Google now for directions to something if I'm driving but that's about it... It has shit support for my language so I usually use SwiftKeys voice recognition (I think it uses nuance technology so it doesn't suck to bad) for dictating texts if I can't hold my phone for some reason.

I would hope a voice assistant would recognize human speech.

Without VA
>Look at phone
>Look for phonebook icon
>Tap it
>Scroll down to what you want to call
>Tap person
>Hit call
With VA
>hold button
>"Call Mary"

the 12 year old I tutor tries to use siri on his iPhone 7 to do simple calculations for his homework

*pudgy greasy sausage finger touches home button*
"Siri what is 4 times 15"
"4 times 50 is 200"
"No!! Ugh! Siri what is 4 times FIFFF-TEEN"
"60"
"I'm so cheesed this phone is such trash, this phone is a trashbag, I'm so cheesed"

I don't have a lot of hope for America's future