Wait till you guys use Google Now on BlackBerry Priv
- Tre LawrenceBetween RealitiesHonestly?... I travel all over the country... From small towns to large cities. I have NEVER been bothered by it or even seen much of people utilizing these features in some sort of nuisance fashion.
It's a wonderful tool built into Android for quick information. We will all enjoy it
Until BBRY does it, of course.10-15-15 09:18 PMLike 3 -
- My wife talks to SIRI all the time..... Want to know what time the Florida State game is on this weekend... no searching or typing needed, just ask Siri. If she wants to know the ingredients for Spinach Dip will at the store... SIRI knows. If we are out and about and she wants to know how badly Miami is losing... SIRI will have it. Other day we were traveling and need to know if there was a pharmacy around, and what time it opened. (what did we do back in the stone ages without a smartphone... just drive around?) And then sometime my granddaughter is with her and just wants to know "what does the fox say"...... Most cases Siri has the answer and not just web results...
Some of you might not see a need for it, some of you might not trust Apple or Google with your "search history", some of you feel stupid talking to your phone.... that's fine. For many others these gimmicks have become useful tools that many users have come to depend on.
Posted via CB1010-15-15 10:24 PMLike 0 - 10-15-15 10:24 PMLike 2
- As the post above yours shows, and most people who have used the BlackBerry assistant, Google now is just another take on it. What exactly is impressive about it? Saying OK Google? All right, some people find that useful, others don't find holding the assistant button any more complicated.10-15-15 10:27 PMLike 0
- OK Google: call my girlfriend (it calls her)
OK Google: what is the weather like in Mountain View? (speaks weather info for Mountain View). OK Google: navigate there. (navigates to Mountain View).
OK Google: take me back to my car. (Navigates me to where I parked -without me having to tell it where I parked in the first place.)
But the much more impressive part of GN is the things that it does for me without me even asking.
My boss put an appointment on my calendar last night. GN alerts me 15 minutes before I need to leave for that appointment, based in current traffic conditions. I never did anything.
My boss books a trip for me and I get my itinerary in my email. GN automatically parses it and presents the information to me as I need it, one step at a time:
- Leave for the airport
- Go to Gate 26
- Gate was changed to Gate 17
- Shows electronic boarding pass
- Routes me to my rental car at my destination.
- Navigates me to my hotel.
All of this without any interaction needed on my part (oh, and I can optionally have it add all of this info to my Calendar - or not - as I choose).
And what we can do today is just the beginning...10-15-15 10:38 PMLike 6 -
My problem with Google Now is the processing of the very well recognized speech is handled so very badly.
You need to know how to talk to it. You can't 'just talk to it'.
Example : to see if a contact has sent you an sms...
You can't say 'did I receive any messages from contact since yesterday? '
You have to say ' search for sms from contact' and you can't add 'since yesterday' or you get a web search.
'sms from contact' doesn't work either.
For movies...
'what movies are playing in Chicago tonight' doesn't work, You have to say
'movies in Chicago' if you add 'tonight ' or 'this weekend ' you get a lesser result with no tts.
I think we should give credit where credit is due but Google Now doesn't deserve praise for its crappy nlp. Which gets worse if it actually has a conversation with you. It only accepts narrow responses. Ie you can't say 'skip' or 'next' or 'skipping' if it wants you to say 'read it' or 'skip it'.
So it's a great tool with awesome services, excellent speech recognition and remedial nlp.
Can't have it all I guess.
Posted via CB1010-15-15 10:38 PMLike 0 - I think _most_ would agree Google Now is good. It ties into lots of data sources and has lots of services.
My problem with Google Now is the processing of the very well recognized speech is handled so very badly.
You need to know how to talk to it. You can't 'just talk to it'.
Example : to see if a contact has sent you an sms...
You can't say 'did I receive any messages from contact since yesterday? '
You have to say ' search for sms from contact' and you can't add 'since yesterday' or you get a web search.
'sms from contact' doesn't work either.
For movies...
'what movies are playing in Chicago tonight' doesn't work, You have to say
'movies in Chicago' if you add 'tonight ' or 'this weekend ' you get a lesser result with no tts.
I think we should give credit where credit is due but Google Now doesn't deserve praise for its crappy nlp. Which gets worse if it actually has a conversation with you. It only accepts narrow responses. Ie you can't say 'skip' or 'next' or 'skipping' if it wants you to say 'read it' or 'skip it'.
So it's a great tool with awesome services, excellent speech recognition and remedial nlp.
Can't have it all I guess.
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Posted via CB1010-15-15 10:42 PMLike 0 - OK Google: call my girlfriend (it calls her)
OK Google: what is the weather like in Mountain View? (speaks weather info for Mountain View). OK Google: navigate there. (navigates to Mountain View).
OK Google: take me back to my car. (Navigates me to where I parked -without me having to tell it where I parked in the first place.)
But the much more impressive part of GN is the things that it does for me without me even asking.
My boss put an appointment on my calendar last night. GN alerts me 15 minutes before I need to leave for that appointment, based in current traffic conditions. I never did anything.
My boss books a trip for me and I get my itinerary in my email. GN automatically parses it and presents the information to me as I need it, one step at a time:
- Leave for the airport
- Go to Gate 26
- Gate was changed to Gate 17
- Shows electronic boarding pass
- Routes me to my rental car at my destination.
- Navigates me to my hotel.
All of this without any interaction needed on my part (oh, and I can optionally have it add all of this info to my Calendar - or not - as I choose).
And what we can do today is just the beginning...
Here's what my Google Now currently try looks like. Usually when I do a Google search I open up Google now and this is what you see.
So usually Google now will let you know of any upcoming appointments. I just bought a house and I'll be inspecting it so there's a reminder.
If I scroll down a bit, there's the weather, these are my most common locations hence why it's giving me this info.
I've also Google certain stocks so Google gives me a daily update on those stocks, which is nice.
I also get news articles along shows on TV based on what I've Googled
I rarely use the voice features with Google now.
Anyways I'm sure this will vary from person to person so hopefully people enjoy using Google now, or not the choice is yours!
Sent from my D5803 using TapatalkLast edited by MO3iusONE; 10-15-15 at 11:59 PM.
10-15-15 11:47 PMLike 0 - Yes, but this parsing of email only happens for your gmail account. I have the Inbox app for gmail and the Outlook app (from Microsoft) for my other emails. When you receive an email into your gmail account, the information is already there and it's quite useful for me to have calendar appointments added automatically.MO3iusONE likes this.10-16-15 04:17 AMLike 1
- Or you might targeted by your health assurance to pay more every month because Google sold them info about your eating habits. So the health assurance company
make more money out of youcan provide you a better service.
Don't take this personally ofcourse. I don't know about your eating habits but want to say there's less innocent use of personal information than for ads.
PassportSQW100-1/10.3.1.2576 O2 UK10-16-15 04:46 AMLike 0 -
- Tre LawrenceBetween RealitiesAs the post above yours shows, and most people who have used the BlackBerry assistant, Google now is just another take on it. What exactly is impressive about it? Saying OK Google? All right, some people find that useful, others don't find holding the assistant button any more complicated.10-16-15 05:43 AMLike 0
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Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalktufcustomer likes this.10-16-15 06:45 AMLike 1 - Google Now is still the number one thing I miss about having an Android device, mostly because I rely so heavily on public transit.
It always knew when I needed to leave to get to work, or home, it would remind me when the last bus of the day was, and when to leave so that I don't miss it. It was nice to be able to know exactly where to catch a bus to get to work in the event I was called in while I wasn't somewhere with familiar busses.
It was invaluable when I was in England in 2012 because in addition to local busses it let me know which Tubes to get to go places, and how late I could reasonably leave somewhere and still be able to get home.
I couldn't really care less about the other stuff Google Now does. If there was *just* a travel version of it I'd use that in a heartbeat.10-16-15 06:53 AMLike 0 - Or you might targeted by your health assurance to pay more every month because Google sold them info about your eating habits. So the health assurance company
make more money out of youcan provide you a better service.
Don't take this personally ofcourse. I don't know about your eating habits but want to say there's less innocent use of personal information than for ads.
If you smoke or you chose to eat unhealthily,.. then you will be a heavier burden on the health care resources of the community, so why shouldn't you pay more?
Like an aggressive driver with a record of incidents,.. they pay more than the defensive driver with a clean slate.
Except in health care,.. current habits are an even more direct indicator of future outcomes because you don't need to account for the teenage girl taking a selfie randomly rear ending you.
Posted via CB1010-16-15 07:11 AMLike 0 -
This is talk to interact. If you don't like it or need it, you can manually input your request. It's an option that some find very useful. Just like a camera, not everyone uses this feature.10-16-15 07:26 AMLike 0 -
Did you even read what I wrote?
Yes Google Now is awesome technology, that pulls in all kinds of data and presents it in a timely easily usable manner. No one is contesting that.
All I'm saying is that GN's NLP when applied to speech input sucks.
Try all the examples I listed above. You can't deny they all fail badly, because they do. And they're pretty simple.
It doesn't mean GN sucks. It just means it sucks at understanding speech. There is no denying that. The recognition of speech is awesome too, it's just the 'understanding' part that needs serious work. Work I'm sure they're doing, but who knows when we'll see an actual improvement.
So you just have to learn how to talk to it and keep your requests simple.
Or just don't talk to it and let it do what it does best.
Posted via CB1010-16-15 07:31 AMLike 0 -
Google making money off bartering my eyes and ears and time and bandwidth sickens me. If they offered me a cut of the proceeds like my purchase-tracking 'points' credit card does, I might feel differently, but I choose to limit my involvement in enriching Google, and pay the price of not having all the features of Google Now available to me. I'm very happy with that decision.
Posted via CB10Last edited by RyanGermann; 10-16-15 at 11:38 AM.
crucial bbq likes this.10-16-15 08:09 AMLike 1 -
It's not that some of us may have misconceptions over what Google Now may or may not be, it was how the OP presented the info.
OK Google: call my girlfriend (it calls her)
OK Google: what is the weather like in Mountain View? (speaks weather info for Mountain View). OK Google: navigate there. (navigates to Mountain View).
OK Google: take me back to my car. (Navigates me to where I parked -without me having to tell it where I parked in the first place.)
But the much more impressive part of GN is the things that it does for me without me even asking.
My boss put an appointment on my calendar last night. GN alerts me 15 minutes before I need to leave for that appointment, based in current traffic conditions. I never did anything.
My boss books a trip for me and I get my itinerary in my email. GN automatically parses it and presents the information to me as I need it, one step at a time:
- Leave for the airport
- Go to Gate 26
- Gate was changed to Gate 17
- Shows electronic boarding pass
- Routes me to my rental car at my destination.
- Navigates me to my hotel.
All of this without any interaction needed on my part (oh, and I can optionally have it add all of this info to my Calendar - or not - as I choose).
And what we can do today is just the beginning...the1 likes this.10-16-15 11:50 AMLike 1 -
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- There's something about my voice that gives voice recognition systems a nervous breakdown. It doesn't matter if I'm on a land line, a cell phone, or in my car.
Me: Call John Brown.
Computer: Call Cousin Władysław Przełomiec. Is that right?
I'm totally serious. Even the number of syllables is usually wrong in BOTH the first and last names.
The kicker? I'm a former ESL teacher of 20+ years' experience. I now work as an interpreter. Further, I've been told that my enunciation is quite good in English, Polish, and German.
I gave up years ago, lol.10-16-15 01:22 PMLike 0
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