Voice Commands On Your Phone

[ma0sm]

and for andyvine why not

[HotBeefTrauma]

Mainly use it for telling me jokes tbh. The Google one has just added sound effects and emojis.

[ma0sm]

Yeah, that’s a good one, if you’ve got a fancy car that can make that work I guess

[ma0sm]

How does it speak an emoji?

[anon64105032]

Not really

ask it to time a minute for my inverted aeropress coffee brewing method

ask it for the weather as I put my shoes on before I leave the house in the morning

fin

[safebruv]

It’s easier than using the voice commands for the car or the screen thing.

[sadpunk]

You’re right and I apologise.

[sadpunk]

“Siri, detonate all other Siris.”

[Avery]

yeah, as IF i’m going to let my phone learn what my voice sounds like.

[saps]

If I was paying for Google Now or whatever it’s currently called then I might use it because I agree that some of these functions are potentially great.

But given that this is offered for free it makes me very suspicious.

What’s their end game? Is is it just to make us utterly dependent and then start charging? Or is it way, way, way more sinister than that? (Alright Charlie Brooker).

[TKC]

one of those things I hope I never do

[Abe]

I got one of the Amazon Alexa thingys last Christmas and after the initial novelty of asking it daft questions wore off I did wonder why people were so excited about these things.

MIne’s now largely a glorified egg timer, as mentioned in the OP, it’s also handy for reminders, so I’ve put in reminders to get cards for birthdays and what-not. Oh, I listen to digital radio on it quite a bit because it’s easier yelling out what station I want rather than fiddling with the radio. Umm, that’s about it.

[japes]

i will never talk to my phone

[Twinkletoes]

Only use it to text nonsense to the TV while she’s sitting next to me

[Jeremys_Iron]

Probably one for the annoying your partner thread but upon waking up most Saturday mornings I’d ask Siri to read out the Premier League fixtures. She used to pronounce ‘city’ like ‘citeh’ which was good.

[rob.orch]

I ask my phone to set timers for cooking, but other than that I don’t think I use it at all.

[83746725]

• Egg Timer
• Sending text messages whilst I’m driving
• Controlling the music whilst I’m driving
• Telling me the time when I’m out with the dog and my hands are full and I forgot to put a watch on

[eltham]

You’re probably getting more use out of yours than 90% of people who own one.

[eltham]

We seem to do this thread a lot.

Virtual Personal Assistants (Alexa, Echo, etc.)

Kind of a niche thing for yuppies right now but they’re coming, aren’t they? How you feeling about it: Alexa, please tell eric to fuck off with his shit thread Bit shite but i’ll probably relent soon enough I will try to avoid them for as long as poss but at some point they’ll be unavoidable innit Nope nope nope I’ll be in cold cold ground before I use one i thought VPA stood for vice presidents association lol (or similar) 0 voters Show results There’s already this deeply worryi…

So you have one of those Alexa Echo Dot things

Don’t forget to try out these free games and the like: You can just say something like “Alexa, Open the Magic Door” or whatever to make it work. They’re mostly probably more diverting for kids than adults but it’s something to do, innit?

Do you talk to any of your electronic devices?

Not as in swearing at your laptop, but as in using voice command to instruct it to do things. I don’t. I think I’d feel a bit self-conscious. But maybe I should. OK DiS, tell me which DiSers talk to their electronic devices.

[ma0sm]

I said “OK Discobot, has this thread been done before” and the bastard just said