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by yalogin 1254 days ago
Am curious. How often do you use a voice assistant and what tasks?
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I'm not the parent commenter but I'm using Siri on my HomePod minis all the time. Turning on / off lights. Regulating the temperature, setting timers, asking for temperature outside, stopping the music.

Unfortunately Siri isn't that great so you'll often run into "Waiting for it", "One moment" and "Working on it" replies.

Also often siri cannot tell the difference between on and off.
Lights, Time, Timers, News, Podcasts/Audiobooks.

Asked Alexa today:

- ‘Can dogs eat apples’

- ’How far is it to <location>‘ ‘How long to <location>.’

- ‘How many calories does 100g grams of cornflakes have’

Just stuff not worth picking my phone up and typing for the most part.

Though just tried all 3 of them on siri and only how far/long is <location> gave me a voice answer (the other 2 were just search results).