[Pxtl]

Whenever I use the Google Assistant, I'm shocked by a) How good the speech-to-text is at figuring out my words, and b) How bad the application layer is at using those words

I tend to over-enunciate, so I don't get many bad bugs in the parsing... but that doesn't stop the Google Assistant from delivering completely the wrong response to the words that it's showing me it has correctly recognized, or simply spinning endlessly and locking up my phone.

As an industry, we suck at everything. We've solved the hard problem but failed the easy part of "once the command has been parsed, either execute the action or show the user an error and then close the dialog".

The only thing I find really awful about speech-to-text on Google is that it can't seem to detect punctuation.

[Noumenon72]

When "OK Google" first came out, I was so wowed and I was constantly going "OK Google, search whatever". Now I use the button to trigger it because it doesn't hear me, and I have to retry a lot of queries -- it just doesn't work as well. Perhaps they made it work great for white males at first but then had to accept a bunch of tradeoffs to get it working for everyone.