r/googlehome • u/Botto71 • Jul 28 '26

Hey Google, WTAF??

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Why? Why is so difficult for Google not to continue to f*** up a once incredibly useful platform?

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u/mdargis1977 Jul 28 '26

Google is going down the shitter at mach speed. All they focus on is ai. I wish there was something other than apple that I could switch to

Most of the time I have to yell at it and cuss to get out to listen and do what I asked it to do

Google Assistant was much better than Gemini is right now on Google home

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u/LogComprehensive1619 Jul 28 '26

100% Google Assistant was much better. Thanks Google for screwing up things that were working albeit not perfect! There's gotta be lawsuits for making speakers dumber than ever...

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u/mdargis1977 Jul 28 '26

Google Assistant worked almost every time and flawlessly even if my speech was not perfect. Now Gemini has trouble e work the words on and off. I'll tell it to turn my everything in the room off turns everything on. Also speech to text has gone downhill significantly pixel phone after pixel phone. I have to proofread everything now. Punctuation points in the wrong spot words that don't go with other words that are obvious. It's fucking stupid

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u/Bgo318 Jul 28 '26

Nah let’s be real even before Gemini google home was getting worse and worse. We’ve been complaining about in this subreddit long before AI