Does anyone know of a modern #Android phone which allows call recording without root?
I'm currently on an aging 5T running #LineageOS and can record calls just fine - a button in the dialler lets me record straight from the line. I don't need to put it on speaker and record via the microphone.
(Looking for 1st hand experience, not search results. No need to reply to discuss the legality of call recording. I need root-less for online banking etc.)
I decided to play around with #GoogleAssistant.
Voice recognition is excellent.
TTS is terrible - sounds tinny and awful. I played with a few different voices, all crap.
"Hey Google, open YouTube" works,
"Hey Google, open Gmail" gives "Opening emails is not supported on this device." WTF?
"Hey Google, translate into French" works.
But now, if I say "Hey Google, translate into German," it just says "Salut Google, traduis en allemand" and I can't find a way to exit it!
While I'm in my unmedicated-for-today ADHD rant space:
A word for privacy researchers who mock folks who use products by Megacorps whose product is the user:
This isn't my thought, this comes from lots of conversations with lots of the disabled community, but it's certainly my experience as a disabled person with a disabled child:
Assistants and home automation products that can control everything are optional privacy-stealing annoyances for your average person. (more)
I can now understand why so many people have been talking about ChatGPT.
Today is my 1st time giving it a try. In some ways it is impressive, but in other ways, I feel like it has been overly hyped up unjustly.
It is about as comparable to Google Assistant for basic information, perhaps a little better, as it isn't trying to sell me anything. But where ChatGPT is far superior is the voice recognition.
Does anyone else get spurious notifications by #GoogleAssistant (in my case on #GrapheneOS) when connected to head phones narrating something in the lines of "the new way to use google, tap the notification and give the google app access to your storage to...".
How can I stop that (the Google app itself is unfortunately a dependency for some other stuff that I want/need)
At least #GoogleAssistant is compatible with #GoogleKeep now. Even though it's no AnyList, I don't have to use Google's extremely shitty shopping list web app.
When setting a timer with #Siri or #GoogleAssistant, on your #smartphone, #HomePod, or Google #Nest device, there is no need to use the phrase “set a timer for…” Just invoke your digital assistant and tell it the number of minutes or seconds you want:
“Hey Siri, 2 minutes,” or just hold down the side button on your #iPhone and say “two minutes.”
The same applies to #Google Assistant. “Hey Google, 30 seconds.”