Hi, maybe I’m old school but i did not appreciate Google replacing their old “Google assistant” on Android with the new Gemini. I do not want to participate in Gemini.

How can i replace it with a more traditional voice assistant?

I don’t use it for very much: the only workflows it would really have to support are:

  • Play music (currently Spotify), e.g., “Play the Beatles on Spotify”
  • Set timers and alarms on the clock app, e.g. “Set a timer for one hour with the label: laundry”.

I think tasker can do this? But i couldn’t find a good guide online.

Anyone know a good way of going about setting this up without it becoming a new hobby?

  • mortalic@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    This is a real problem. Even if you’re using actual Google devices now. I used to be able to use android auto as an app on my phone which was perfect when riding my motorcycle. Tap the button on my helmet mic and tell it to navigate somewhere different, or text someone o play a playlist.

    Now it’s broken across all that. No android auto on my phone. Assistant is nerfed… I gave up.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
      13·
      12 days ago

      It’s so fuckin bad now. I was an early adopter of them, they were so much better back in the day. Nowadays if I ask to turn on the lights it starts playing Lights by Ellie Goulding. If I ask to set an alarm and it makes the lights in my bedroom red.

      I have mine set to bilingual (English/French) and can confidently say the French support is even worse. If it detects French it hilariously responds in English with a bad French accent. “Tha storhr iz trant sank kilometres by car, it vill take saw sant diz minoots to arreev”