On: Changes we're making to Google Assistant

[1234letshaveatw]

you can tell someone lives in California when the most-used assistant feature isn't asking about the weather

[guyzero → 1234letshaveatw]

I live in California and it's still my most-used feature. I gotta know if I need to dress for 17C or 19C.

[afavour → 1234letshaveatw]

Quite the opposite. I bike the kids to school every morning. The weather is too important to be summed up by a voice summary, I need the hour by hour details.

[danielbln → afavour]

I can ask Alexa e.g. "what's the weather at 9am", that doesn't work with Google Assistant?

[riversflow → danielbln]

Not OP, but I want to see an hour by hour forecast for the day. If there is precip, I want to see an animated active radar view, with forecast frames.

“What’s the weather @ time” is inadequate. I live in California(albeit not on the coast or in the valley).

[achates → danielbln]

"The weather in Nijmegen is..."

[aworks → achates]

I tried this and Alexa replied:

The temperature in Nyagen, Russia is current -31 degrees...

I'm an American but I've been to Nijmegen so I think my pronunciation was ok.

[esafak → achates]

Also fails when you live in a town that has homonyms, so it can fail even when it correctly hears the word. Wrong country, that's all!

[afavour → danielbln]

I dunno, I’ve never tried. It’s just one of those scenarios where I find the visual is a much more useful medium.

[SketchySeaBeast → danielbln]

You can definitely do that.

[ilzmastr → 1234letshaveatw]

Funny but true, its usually a front page story in the Chronicle if it is going to rain during the week