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If it was n’t open before that Google’sGeminichatbot was rushed out the threshold , it is now .
Gemini ’s since - get rid of image generatorput the great unwashed of color in Nazi - era uniform . The chatbot ’s commentary continues to run toward the idiotic besides , like equating Hitler ’s record with Elon Musk posting meme .
On Android , Gemini also breaks Google Assistant’ssong recognition . And to me , after Gemini ’s abhorrent cultural insensitivity , it ’s one of the most frustrating matter about it .
allow me explain .
I mostly use Gemini on my senesce Samsung Galaxy A53 5 gravitational constant , which is n’t on the button the peppy Android smartphone out there . To make it snappier , I replaced the nonremittal dwelling house screen with a minimalist choice , Niagara Launcher , which is essentially an alphabetized list of the apps set up on my earphone .
Niagara ’s great . But it ’s limited in what it can do by design , which made me dependent on Google Assistant — now Gemini — for undertaking like setting timer , launching apps and so on .
Song recognition , cue with a command like “ OK Google , what ’s this song ? , ” was a Google Assistant - render gismo I took advantage of often . It came in handy in nightclubs , eating house and bars for IDing caterpillar track I ’d most certainly forget otherwise . There ’s no dearth of song - recognise apps — Apple - possess Shazam to name one . But Google Assistant was among the serious out there in term of accuracy , at least in my experience .
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So imagine my frustration when I discovered that Gemini on Android ca n’t tell apart songs — or even perform the basic task of funnel Sung dynasty ID requests to Google Assistant .
necessitate Gemini , which replaces Google Assistant on Android , to ID a Song dynasty and it has thenerveto propose using apps like Shazam — or invoking Google Assistant by switching back to it . For added variety , it ’ll occasionally intimate random songs from YouTube .
I ’m acutely aware this is a first - world problem . I could plunge song recognition from the Google Search app on Android . Or , were I using a formal home sieve , I could place the dedicated Sung dynasty ID shortcut .
But the other face of Google Assistant ’s song recognition that made it so attractive , at least to this author , was the low barrier to expend . Launching the feature did n’t need fiddling with an app or type anything in . A voice command subsequently and it was up and running , which made it tight — useful when you ’re render to speedily ID a Sung .
make the song recognition situation more put off is the fact that I ’m pay for the Google One AI Premium Plan , price at $ 20 per month , which issupposedto afford me access to a more advanced , brawny Gemini experience . Perhaps it ’s advanced inotherways — ways I have n’t discovered yet , honestly . But broken song realization , along with missing basic lineament like the power to toy songs , create lists and more , make Gemini a very misfortunate second-stringer for Google Assistant on Android at present tense .
Full transparency , I ’ve reached out to Google about song recognition via Gemini and I ’ll update this C. W. Post if I hear back .
