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?

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    16 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”