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[mostthingsweb]

I just want decent on-device voice recognition for things like asking the Assistant to send text messages. So tired of having to repeat myself 5 times.

[nmfisher → mostthingsweb]

Even with the recent improvements to iOS speech recognition, I've felt that Android recognition has always been better. Not the case?

[smt88 → nmfisher]

I've extensively used both iPhones and Pixel phones for years.

Siri is astonishingly, infuriatingly bad. It's hard to imagine anyone on the Siri team uses it daily like I do. It works well ~30% of the time and is bafflingly non-deterministic.

Google is much, much better, but it's still not objectively great. It's closer to 80% of responses being reasonable, which is still unacceptably low.

[Angostura → smt88]

Siri and speech recognition are somewhat different. iOS seems to transcribe my spoken words reall very well most of the time.

[mostthingsweb → nmfisher]

The actual recognition is quite good. It's just the handling of poor/intermittent network issues that is abysmal.

[cglong → mostthingsweb]

I've had this going back to the Pixel 4. Do non-Google phones still not have this?

[mostthingsweb → cglong]

I also have only had Pixels basically since they were released. I guess where I have issues is when the phone has a weak signal, and it insists on trying to use it for voice recognition rather than just falling back to local.

[callalex → mostthingsweb]

The latest Apple Watch models do this and it’s so much nicer.