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Abstract
- Nest good audio system and shows have a bug the place asking to set a timer for 12 minutes leads to a two-minute timer as an alternative.
- This bug doesn’t extensively happen on different units similar to Android telephones, indicating that it could be particular to Nest units.
- Google Help has been unable to offer an answer. Total, Google Assistant has been experiencing a decline in options and accuracy.
Google Assistant was the flagship product Google pushed into every kind of different apps and providers, with the Nest audio system and shows on the forefront of the corporate’s imaginative and prescient to an always-connected future. Everyone knows that Google Bard and different generative AI endeavors are rapidly taking Assistant’s spot, with good residence units and the Assistant itself shedding an increasing number of options. It seems like you may depend the power to set a timer for 12 minutes amongst these, too.
As many individuals have confirmed on Reddit and the Google Help discussion board over the previous few months, Nest good audio system and shows are inadvertently setting a two-minute timer relatively than a 12-minute timer when requested with particular wording. Whenever you say “set a timer for 12 minutes,” the Assistant will perceive your enter as “set a timer for 1-2 minutes,” which it turns into two minutes for some cause. That is additionally the case for any variation of this request, like “set a timer for 12 minutes and 30 seconds,” which provides you with two minutes and 30 seconds.
The bug solely impacts this particular wording. Whenever you say “set a 12-minute timer” and even “set a timer for 12” with out specifying minutes, the Assistant will observe by means of. It’s additionally doable to set a timer for 11 minutes and 59 seconds, and even 720 seconds to get precisely 12 minutes. We’ve been capable of verify this persistently inconsistent habits on a number of Nest audio units and a first-gen Nest Hub ourselves, each when set to English (US) and English (UK). We’ve additionally examined if the bug exhibits up in different languages like German and Spanish, nevertheless it labored high quality right here.
We additionally examined the identical “set a timer for 12 minutes” command on different units, together with Android telephones and the Google Pixel Pill in its good display-like dock mode, and it labored high quality right here. Based mostly on the Reddit reviews, some individuals’s telephones are affected by the bug, although, so your mileage could differ.
The bug was mentioned extensively as early as August, with a few of these affected saying it had been taking place for a few months earlier than that. On the Google assist boards, some Group Specialists tried to supply cures like setting the affected machine to English (US) solely, rebooting it, and even manufacturing facility resetting it, however to no avail.
A sluggish downward pattern?
Over time, Google Assistant misplaced a number of options. Most not too long ago, Google eliminated the power to handle purchasing lists by means of the Assistant, as an alternative transferring the characteristic to Google Maintain. One thing comparable occurred to reminders, with them now baked into Google Duties relatively than Assistant. You may nonetheless set reminders in Duties and add objects to your Maintain lists through Assistant, although. Different options had been launched after which by no means ported to extra languages, like Continued Conversations.
Many individuals additionally anecdotally share that the expertise acquired worse general, with Assistant having extra hassle understanding them appropriately currently. The 12-minute bug actually suits this notion.
Jon Gilbert contributed to this text