#Google Assistant

[speedierthanasubmarine]

Finished heaven official’s blessing and I really enjoyed writing an analysis on helluva boss I want to make this a regular thing because it’s fun so here’s my thoughts on

Heaven Official’s Blessing

Spoilers (duh)

I think it’s incredibly impressive when someone can make an overarching narrative in which different seemingly disjointed events are significant without A) putting a giant exclamation mark on top saying “REMEMBER THIS IT WILL BE IMPORTANT LATER” and B) Significantly over or under emphasizing the importance of the scene in the moment. Each event stood on its own and I liked that.

There were several janky sentences and word choices but that’s a translation issue, this writer clearly knows what she’s doing.

Characters were a lot of fun and distinct, my favorites were Feng Xin, Pei Ming, Qi Ying, and Ling Wen whenever they were on the page I was like Ah yes, these pages are gonna be enjoyable and I was right, they’re all delightful (cept the brocade immortal stuff, but like I don’t care, Google assistant is fun) Xie Lian and San Lang are delightful, love them, and San Lang is so effed in the head it’s enjoyable to try and imagine what unhinged thing he’ll do next

Tbh there isn’t much plot breakdown I want to do with this series because it knows what it is, it’s a fanfic ass book with good times, trauma, gay fluff, and fights. Need I say more? That’s not a detractor, it’s a strength. Be what you are and own it because a house with a house’s foundation is a great house but slap a building on that house’s foundation and it fails in both regards.

The only aspect I’m going to analyze is the narrative voice the books are written in because holy crap is it super impressive. Xie Lian is a super mature (or ditzy, depending on your point of view) character, he doesn’t dwell on things, doesn’t hold grudges, doesn’t really care that much about people’s histories or even their present, doesn’t focus much on externals and it comes through in the way the book is written. I noticed this when throughout the books San Lang would do fucked up stuff like make it rain blood and kill a pit’s worth of people and Xie Lian kinda didn’t really seem to care and at first it pissed me off, why isn’t the author letting consequences occur because of these peoples’ actions, but then as it held consistently throughout the book and other people kept being super concerned about stuff, like Pei Constantly asking after Shi Qingxuan (I don’t know how to spell their name, it’s so hard to keep track I’m so sorry) or people bringing up Banue, I realized this is just Xie Lian, other people in the book are regular people like me, this one guy is just experiencing things, going “Well, ain’t that something” and then just moving on. Honestly iconic, but also I was halfway through book six when I realized. Especially since whenever they do flashbacks Xie Lian does all normal stuff. He describes settings he’s in, he mentions events that happened a few pages ago, he tells the reader how he feels, it’s after he experiences all his shit he goes through that this all kinda slips away. In “present” scenes he’ll reference things as they come up but like in the flashback after Mu Qing leaves they talk about it a few times and I find that aspect of acknowledgment to be noticeably absent in the “present” scenes. After the black water arc there is a complete lack of discussion about the frankly trauma inducing event that just transpired but sure Cie Lian, you and San Lang have to not hold hands for the billionth time. At first I thought is this author high but then I realized what shes doing is characterizing through prose which is IMPRESSIVE AS HELL. This may be a point I noticed and am now misremembering the entire series just to bolster my take and if that’s the case then I shall sheepishly shrug and say I’m sorry. I’m not rereading 8 books to write a tumblr review. Maybe if I ever start a YouTube channel

I don’t know, I just find it to be an incredible feat of actually good writing when a story is being told through the lens of the main character and you can characterize that character by simply reading the story and seeing how it’s written, not even through dialogue and action. It’s kinda like the Great Gatsby or a Separate Peace, and it’s super cool that a book like this can accomplish the same thing that makes those classics great. There isn’t as much symbolism or analytical potential but those books wouldn’t be nearly as impactful as they were without great execution, which this book pulled off in spades.

#ash #thoughts #heaven official's blessing #hob #mxtx #mxtx tgcf #tgcf #ti guan ci fu #xie lian #san lang #hua cheng #hualian #pei ming #qi ying #quan yizhen #feng xin #nan yang #god these names are so fucking confusing #mu qing #ling wen #google assistant #brocade immortal #plot #analysis #narrative #narrative voice #literature

[martinsharmony]

Well gosh Google yes I would love to 😅

#happy birthday dt #happy birthday david #david tennant #google assistant #being useful i guess?

[supriyawithoutsu]

Kabhi kabhi mere dosto ke jawaab sunke lagta hain ki unke muh ke 'google assistant' ka 'eat a five star do nothing' mode on hain

#google #google assistant #eat a five star do nothing #desi tumblr #desiblr #desi shit posting #desi humor #desi tag #desi memes #desi aesthetic #just desi things #desi dark academia #design #desi stuff #desi #being desi #funny stuff #funny shit #what the fuck

[blowery]

Me: hey Google, 10 minute timer for chicken

Google: 10 minute timer! *bawk bawk bawk bawk*

Just trying to imagine the number of meetings and reviews that chicken noise must have gone through.

#Google #google assistant #can we make the second bawk a bit higher and punchier

[neoruby-loves-ut-aus]

Happy B-Day to the Apple brothers 🍎🍎

The brothers belong to @jokublog

They're now 507 yrs old 😀😀😀 (I did math by doing 2016-500 and it came 1516 which means that time the Apple incident happened and 500 + 7)

Bonus, Google assistant gave me these answers:

When I searched for black apple:

When I searched for golden apple in which country (to check whether it exists or not):

#gacha club #gachaclub #dreamtale #undertale au #dream sans #nightmare sans #utmv #happy birthday 🥳🥳 #happy birthday #dreamtale dream #dreamtale nightmare #dreamtale au #dreamtale brothers #Gacha nymph #gacha mod #google #google assistant #Black apple #Golden apple #Negative apple #Positive apple #Guardiam of Positivity #Guardian of negativity #King of negativity #King nightmare sans #King dream sans

[just-a-little-bit-of-sugar]

When I say "ok google, goodnight" the google turns off my bedside lamp, and it used to say "goodnight, *name*" but now it just says "goodnight" is it mad at me

#spilled sugar #2023 and me #omg last night of me getting to use that tag #google #google home #google assistant

[celiaelise]

I asked Google assistant if it could do my dishes for me, and it said I needed to set up permissions for that in the app.

#google assistant #ai #by elise

[airconditioningbob]

#ramblings #go go gadget #google assistant

[onepawproductions]

Working on Chapter 14 of The Muddy Princess, by Colubrina!

It's been a journey, figuring out how to get the Perfect RTX Broadcast Noise Cancellation out of the Ai. I apparently have a specific frequency in my voice that Ai doesn't like, lol.

So I tend to get artifacts around P's and H's, especially when doing a higher pitched British Female Voice.

Hear the artifact at the end? I sure do! Annoying little squealing noise...

On a side note, Google Nest and Google Assistant have trouble hearing me too. Sometimes I'll have to drop an entire register, so I sound like Batman Lite, asking for the kitchen lights to turn off, ha

Downloading Voxal, and using it before RTX Broadcast to drop frequencies under 100hz, and over 2000hz helps a lot, though. Whew!

#fanfic #podfic #the muddy princess #dramione #draco x hermione #google assistant #ai tools

[canadiancryptid]

I just tried to ask google who voiced Fink in OK KO because I thought she sounded familiar, and uh-

it misheard me and now I'm scared

#THAT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE AND I DON'T LIKE WHAT IT IMPLIES GOOGLE #cryptid says stuff #I didn't even see what it answered with it just scared me and I ran #google assistant #I love the little green rat girl already but my brain is on something else now #google

[speedierthanasubmarine]

Some stuff I sent to my friend while reading book 5, I am a national treasure.

#ash #ash-isms #hob #tgcf #mxtx tgcf #Hua cheng #xie lian #hualian #san lang #pei ming #general pei #ling wen #google assistant #kemo #funny #funny tgcf #text

[ismael-doodles]

Asistente de Google.

Alexander para los amigos¿¿

Es solo una "actualización" (nuevo diseño) de mi asistente de Google lmao.

También humanice a Google, Chrome y las demás apps de Google, lo muestro algún día¿

P E S T A Ñ A S~

Basado en un dibujo de Kagaya Ubuyashiki que ví en Pinterest¿¿

#tradicional art #my art #my oc #original characters #Asistente de Google #Alexander Google #Welcome to the Internet #proyect #Google Assistant

[mathonmain]

Do screen-readers appropiately pick up alt texts and rare unicode characters?

I want my math posts to be screen-reader friendly; I wanted to do this by, if inside a paragraph, using unicode characters and putting the mathematical notation, if important, in images an describe them using the alt text; however, Google Assistant's "read screen" function is not picking up the alt text or some unicode characters. I want to check if the same happens with other screen-readers. I no longer have JAWS and never got Orca to work so if you use a screen-reader, could you please help me out with a few tests?

Here's an image with alt text:

Did you hear the alt text?

How about this unicode characters:

⟶, ⊢, ⊣, ⊧, ⊭, ➡, <, ⊂, =, ¬, ∈, ∉, ∎

Did you hear all 13 of them?

If you could help me out I would really appreciate it.

#screen reader #accesibility #alt text #unicode #google assistant #jaws #orca #screen readers #text to speech #math #maths #mathematics

[moved-to-piersgender]

On one hand Im glad voice assistants like Alexa are dying out, on the other hand it's depressing that it's happening because they're not profitable rather than, y'know, horribly invasive.

#Hell world #Alexa #amazon alexa #Google assistant #These should never have existed but even good things have to be profitable to live which just makes me pessimistic as fuck about the future

[twinkdrama]

i think my google home has dementia

#google nest #google home #ok google #google assistant #shitposting #tumblr memes #mine

[justmchell]

I love Google Assistant

#i solemnly swear i am up to no good #google #google assistant