Google Assistant has, especially in the context of the smart home, been crumbling over the past couple of years. In a post this evening, Google’s lead for Home and Nest has acknowledged Assistant issues while also teasing “major improvements” coming later this year.
As Google has been moving towards Gemini, the experience of using Google Assistant has been, in a word, chaos. It works sometimes, but “reliable” certainly doesn’t come to mind for Assistant nowadays. This is especially true in the smart home, as Google Assistant speakers and just general controls through the voice assistant haven’t been working as well as they used to.
In a post on Twitter/X, Google’s Anish Kattukaran, Chief Product Officer over Google Home and Nest, has acknowledged “recent feedback” over Google Assistant reliability.
Kattukaran explains:
Hey everyone, I want to acknowledge the recent feedback about Google Assistant reliability on our home devices. I sincerely apologize for what you’re experiencing and feeling!
We hear you loud and clear and are committed to getting this right — and making sure we have a long term solution that provides better reliability and capability. We have been actively working on major improvements for [some time] and will have more to share in the fall.
Beyond just acknowledging what’s going on, the post teases “major improvements” in the pipeline. While it’s not directly named, it seems reasonable to assume Gemini is involved. Google last year teased Assistant improvements which have started to surface in recent months. Presumably, we could hear more as Google’s August 20 launch event for the Pixel 10 series nears, but it could also be after that given the “Fall” timeline.
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