Google's Gemini chatbot falls short in a number of areas. One of them is recognizing songs that might be playing.

The author says that once you install Gemini (pro), when you ask “what song is this”, you get a reply like “use apple’s Shazam”.

They say Google assistant music recognition was working so well and super accurate.

Although I was never able to have it work. When I ask “what song is this” I can only get one of this two results:

  1. Sorry, I didn’t understand (90% of cases)
  2. Search “what song is this” on Google

My use cases are:

  1. In car listening to radio. I never have it work.
  2. Know which song is playing right now on the device when I’m using headphones. It never worked but it should be trivial, you already have all the metadata already. My iPod touch could do this super reliably and 100% offline TWENTY YEARS ago. It was so useful.
  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itOPEnglish
    132·
    9 months ago

    Google assistant is already almost useless (at least in my language, I get almost always a “sorry, I didn’t understand” answer, but your mileage may vary), a newer version that can’t interact with anything seems pointless.

    “Send Whatsapp to…” - “I can’t interact with Whatsapp”

    “Turn off the lights” - “I don’t have access to this”

    “Identify this song” - “use our competitor’s app”

    • DeceptichumEnglish
      142·
      9 months ago

      GA was amazing years ago, it’s gotten consistently worse over time to the point I’ve stopped using it in my home for anything other than asking today’s weather when I wake up.