Tell Me Twice
Jan 31, 2021
Our Google Home Mini has trouble hearing. It’s nearly exclusive use is as a kitchen timer. Being screen-less and having indiscernible lights, it’s not the ideal device for this. However, what makes it worse is that it seems to perform poorly with multiple speakers when timers are trying to be set.
The result is that my kitchen sounds like a submarine bridge with the commands being relayed between family members.
Captain: “OK Google, set a timer for 5 minutes.”
First officer: “Hey Google, set a 5 minute timer.”
Google Assistant: “5 minute timer starting now”
First officer: “5 minute timer set”
At some point, I’m going to replace this device. It’s right now a placeholder for when I have enough effort to implement a better solution.
