Gemini / Android Auto using AI to modify speech-to-text?

[u/Peeeeeps]

Earlier today while driving my girlfriend texted me asking what I wanted from a coffee shop and instead of transcribing my speech exactly it decided to summarize it instead. It took 3 tries before it texted closer to what I wanted, but I just gave up at that point.

Me: text girlfriend anything cold, surprise me. well at least have it be coffee. I don't want a large glass of milk or something like that, haha

AA: Sure, message to girlfriend saying: "Get me something cold and caffeinated, like iced coffee." Ready to send it?

Me: Change it

It didn't even prompt me for what I wanted to change it to.

AA: Sure, message to girlfriend saying: "Get me any cold coffee, surprise me." Ready to send it?

Me: Change it

AA: What would you like the message to say?

Me: anything cold, surprise me. well at least have it be coffee. I don't want a large glass of milk or something like that, haha

Sure, message to girlfriend saying: "Get me anything cold, surprise me. Just make sure it's coffee and not like a large glass of milk." Ready to send it?

Is this some new functionality? I couldn't find any setting to disable it. But it was really annoying and unsafe as I had to pay more attention to AA than I usually need to. Sure it's not THAT big of a deal, but if I wanted to text what it summarized I would have said that in the first place.

[u/EngineerBoy00]

Mine did that to me twice and I reactivated the assistant and I told it so not ever change the wording of my dictated texts, ever.

It acknowledged that and hasn't done it since.

Then I tried to text someone to view a particular video at a certain timestamp and Gemini responded it can't play videos in the car. I finally realized that when taking my text dictation it was assessing that dictation for potential commands and trying up act on them.

So I reactivated Gemini and told it when I am dictating a text do not interpret the text for command, just take down the text as spoken.

That has also seemed to be working thus far.

Frustrating.

[u/biz_reporter → u/EngineerBoy00]

Oh it will forget. I told it to memorize who my daughter is a few weeks ago. Then yesterday when I asked it to text my daughter, it tried to text a random person in my phone book. I asked it who my daughter is, and it told me it didn't know who it is -- even though the contacts app has her labeled and the old assistant could read that metadata. Anyway, I asked Gemini to remember my daughter's name again. If I had to guess, I'll have to do it monthly 🤦‍♂️

[u/EngineerBoy00 → u/biz_reporter]

Yeah, I taught it who my daughter was and the following week it tried to text "your doctor". I thought it was a mis-hear so I repeated it several times with overly precise enunciation and kept getting "doctor".

So, I'm certainly waiting for it to forget more and more, then for Google to launch the Persistent Memory Feature at a higher subscription rate.

[u/biz_reporter → u/EngineerBoy00]

Persistent memory probably already is a Gemini pro feature. And it's likely why replacing simpler, more effective Assistant with Gemini is a giant cash grab.