Not the OP, but I see a lot of complaints on HN about dumb media player "voice control". I myself had cringe experiences with my car when I wanted to play a particular genre or song.

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SketchySeaBeast 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Unfortunately. if you have experience with Android and Gemini, the in car voice control has become worse with the introduction of AI.

	▲	TaLiTr 40 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The recognition is worse, but the integration is awful. Now Gemini needs to connect to the map with a noticeable delay, and if I click something on the map, Gemini often doesn't know and continues to harass me!
	▲	komali2 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think the best voice control was whatever was in the iphone 3gs. I distinctly remember being in my car and saying something along the lines of "iphone play deadmau5" and it just worked. I may have had to hold a button to activate voice mode, I don't remember, I just remember always finding Siri and related "modern" voice control software to be worse than whatever I had on that iphone.

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hedora 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It worked great on the XBox 360.

So far, that's been the peak of voice control from what I can tell. Xbox one was completely unusable, even if 2026 Siri makes both systems look good.