Google Home vs Amazon Echo vs third party with Google/Echo assistant

Interesting question. I know I can make voice-initiated outgoing calls but it appears you can't make calls to x11 numbers like 911.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=202136310

Perhaps its due to the wifi-calling aspect. I know when I set up wifi-calling on my cell phone (a necessity since I live in the sticks and 4G signal in the house is really spotty) you have to enter a local address into settings for 911 calls. Guessing without the ability to use 4G to triangulate location it disables the 911 system. I wonder if Amazon (or other smart home device vendor) can address the local address challenge.

 

Where is everyone with smart assistants today?

My Echos are starting to show their age. Some of them just give up trying to stream Pandora, and forget about streaming YouTube music. They’ve also become more aggressive with advertising **** I don’t need.

I use them for

• Streaming music
• Timers
• Voice control of lights

I’m using YouTube more and more and pay for premium. There’s also a way to import Pandora stations to YouTube so I can probably cut costs there.

So if I’m going to have to replace the old Echos, I may as well look at switching.

Thoughts?

 

I don't use them for anything. It's a wonder how I survive!

I do use "Hey Google" every once in a while to set an alarm on my phone for auction bidding. Does that count?

 

Alexa rules
@Dr of Dunk

 

I'm not buying one until I figure out how to set up a filter with something like Raspberry Pi through my router, so probably never unless it's gifted.

 

Amazon rules breh
Alexa can tell me the weather and who won the rockets game and play Billie Jean on my Klipsch sound system

 

I got a Google mini a few years ago as a gift. I'm sure it does stuff, but I only use it to play music when I'm in the shower.

 

So no real, educated comments?

****-ing Clutchfans.

 

That's perfect use for it. In the shower, all wet and can't use your hands to reach a device or else water gets everywhere. Use it for time, forecast, podcasts, audiobooks, interactive games and quizzes while taking a dump .

 

I use google devices for the following:

• Lights
• TV
• Robotic vacuum
• Thermostat

We primarily use it in the living room/kitchen area to get lights and TV on/off at night and use phones to stream what we want to watch/listen. We also use it when we will be out of the house to run vacuum and thermostat (only for all day). Only issues we have are typically device based (TV and lights do not handle power outages well and need to be relinked/rebooted sometimes).

I assume Alexa would work fine as well for how we use them.

 

go test out the AI yourself

Ask Alexa, Google, what is 'Clutch City'

that should solve your problem

 

Why would you touch it?

 

if you didn't have a google home, it would be hard to switch songs with your phone. Doesn't sound as good either.

 

I just yell at it. It isn't connected to anything but wifi. I don't, at the moment, feel like syncing all of my crap. Just play a song while I'm washing my ass.

 

I use my Amazon echoes throughout the house mostly for music, timers etc., but I also have it set turn on the lights at sunset, shut everything down when I say good night, do you stuff like arm the alarm, turn on the kettle in the kitchen, and I have it all set to work with the Samuel L Jackson voice so it gets a little testy, mouthy, and vulgar from time to time.

Using voice text on my iPad for this post…. “Hey Samuel roast me, I’m just going to ignore that request because your sorry ass will be destroyed on impact try asking again when you can handle it.”

 

Google home for thermostat, Alexa for music, lights, timers, audio books, games, etc.

 

Have had Alexa for years, but it started to fail. Wouldn't play Spotify, wouldnt play Pandora. Would give me a notification light and then deny that there were notifications. Attempts to factory reset wasn't doing it. Had to get something new.

Got a Nest speaker. Oh my God it sucks. It thinks for an eternity before responding. The shopping list function I used a lot on the Alexa, but Google's version is terrible. They apparently allowed some third party list apps, but shut that down a year ago so you can only use Google Keep (eagerly anticipating the antitrust lawsuit). Keep sucks in general, but it also doesn't even try to do what Alexa does with the shopping list. I thought Alexa's app was bad and non-intuitive, but Google's is far worse.

And what annoyed me enough to revive this thread to complain is that looking for reviews, comparisons, and help articles, I'm not finding people who will acknowledge that Google ****ing sucks. So I came to say they ****ing suck.

 

Google and Microsoft are software giants that will occasionally throw more money than Jesus has at hardware products…and eventually kill the line if it’s not profitable (usually because it sucks).

I’m hoping that Alexa will get much better with AI integration. It still sucks that it won’t play audio from YouTube.

I enabled beta on my iPhone and was able to get AI-integrated Siri. Haven’t played with it much but picture searching is much better.

 

Maybe this is an Unpopular Opinion: I love Google Keep and have used it for years.

 

Thinking about buying a rotary phone and a phonograph to simultaneously own the libs and the crypto bros. I don’t need an AI assistant cause I’m already A(I)wesome and I’ll hang up and listen.