Google opted for a ring of LEDs around the speaker's base to provide more dynamic feedback when its mic is on and listening to commands or responding to questions.
Its interesting, I have the HA Voice Preview and I've been trying out using Gemini as the brains. Yes I know this defeats the point, but it's an experiment and I wanted to see how the normal Flash model handles things.
It works great, nearly perfect. So whatever they have done to lobotomize their existing devices/assistant over the last year or so is not just Gemini being bad at it.
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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 5 pts · 93d
Yeah... no.
dom@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 93d
Gemini is unusable as a smart assistant. Im desperately waiting for more advances in the home assistant voice project
sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 93d
Its interesting, I have the HA Voice Preview and I've been trying out using Gemini as the brains. Yes I know this defeats the point, but it's an experiment and I wanted to see how the normal Flash model handles things.
It works great, nearly perfect. So whatever they have done to lobotomize their existing devices/assistant over the last year or so is not just Gemini being bad at it.
dom@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 93d
So strange. Im using open ai on ha and it hasn't been great. Maybe I try gemini ironically
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 93d
"Finally"!