if youre unfamiliar, its an accessibility app made by google, for controlling your phone with your voice. this is different to the “OK google” thing.
I’m disabled, and I avoided owning a phone for many years because they’re so painful to use. but this year I finally had to get one, so I got a samsung s10e. but this voice access app is just… terrible? its really buggy, struggles to understand me way worse than Talon (a PC voice control program), and loves to do things I don’t tell it to.
it also doesn’t even make my phone fully accessible, theres tons of gestures it just can’t do, and I can’t add custom ones.
basically… am I doing something wrong? is there some trick I don’t know about? or is android accessibility really this bad? is there anything I can do?
I’ve had a lukewarm experience with Google’s voice recognition. Between my phone and a few Nest Mini devices, it’s not uncommon for the device I’m speaking into to misunderstand or outright not pick up on my Hey Google cue. And when I do so I have to speak very clearly almost to the point of it being unnatural.
I hate to say it but I’ve used others’ Amazon/Apple devices and it’s not nearly as difficult.
I find that the cadence of your words matters very much with Google. Like the words matter, but your pitch and tone matter too. I had to retain my model because it wouldn’t go off when I’d yell ok Google at it, but it would go off when I’d say “ok cool” in convo. Now I have to say it with a specific inflection for it to recognize what I said. When I say it with the right inflection I’d say it works 80+ percent of the time