Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri::Cortana is Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which was introduced in 2014 back when Windows Phone was still a thing. Similar to…

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Asking the thing to handle music in another language was terrible. Asking it to play a French song to an assistent set in English gives stupid results for example. “Que sera, sera” becomes “Oh Sarah”.

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      1 year ago

      This! I live in Taiwan, but 99% of my entertainment is from the US. I can’t use Any of these assistants in English otherwise street names or other Mandarin stuff won’t work, but if I use Mandarin assistants none of my music or shows works.

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        1 year ago

        Can you use two? I use both Siri with push to talk from my Watch and Alexa through Echo dot, whichever is convenient. Either one will do times, music, lights, etc

        If you took a similar approach, you might use one with each language

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      1 year ago

      I have my Google assistant set for multiple languages and it’s a mess, particularly for simple commands to control the “smart” devices in my house. “Turn off the sound machine” often gets an angry response in german.