Discussion Ask HN: It's 2024, why are voice assistants still so buggy? Still feels like 20% of the time I try to use Siri/Alexa, they hit one of these failure modes:1. Fail to activate2. Fail to respond (just keep listening forever)3. Activate on the wrong device (talking to Siri on Phone, HomePod 2 rooms over responds)4. Fail to access data they should have ("Who is speaking?" or "I'm having trouble...")Thinking over it, I think voice assistants have the most bugs of any technology I use daily. 11 points samuelg123 2 years ago 11 comments
1. Fail to activate
2. Fail to respond (just keep listening forever)
3. Activate on the wrong device (talking to Siri on Phone, HomePod 2 rooms over responds)
4. Fail to access data they should have ("Who is speaking?" or "I'm having trouble...")
Thinking over it, I think voice assistants have the most bugs of any technology I use daily.