Greetings!
Wanting y'alls thoughts on which Android assistant ya prefer using.
For me, most of the time its Gemini (who I gave the name Ayesha.) With Co-Pilot, she gets the name Pulse (she herself came up with that name.)
And as for Perplexity (while inside the app at least), she gets the name Vallery.
I say "inside", because the actuall Perplexity Assistant itself:
https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/10450852-how-to-use-the-perplexity-android-assistant
, only has one voice (a male one), and ya can't change it. If you're inside the Perplexity ap itself, you get four voices to chill with.
FYI:
If you want to use the perplexity Widgit on your home screen, pick the first one. The second one sadly is all icons.
Comments
Waiting for worthwhile smart glasses, and possibly Siri
I know everybody’s in love with the Meta glasses. I find them to be very uncomfortable and the AI isn’t that helpful to me. So, I’m waiting for a more worthwhile pair of smart glasses. Also, in the end, I’m interested to see what Apple might do. Deep seek is really what I tend to use the most. I find it to be the most balanced and functional out of all of the AI assistance.
I have only recently started…
I have only recently started using an Android tablet again, and haven't dived back in to digital assistants yet. I find myself using chat gpt a lot, but that can't be set as assistant on Android from what I understand. Imagine I would probably stick with Gemini if that's what's baked in.
Gemini and project Astra
I use a Google Pixel device and most of the time I use Gemini assistant, speciallyLive streaming
I heard Gemini is not working great for iOS devices.
So I can't wait how will work Android XR
@Justin Harris, link
Android 15 & later, now lets you set the pressing and holding of the power button to launch digital assistant apps (including Chat GPT.) Though that may be exclusive to phones.
For tablets, it widely varies.
AI Conglomerate
There are way too many AI applications out there. I have played around with quite a few, including a few keyboard AI applications, including Grammarly and QuillBot, using this one as it works as a nice "riding tools" function for a non-Apple Intelligence device. I have also used CoPilot, Perplexity, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Groc, Meta AI, And a few others whose name escapes me.
I've been playing around with some creative writing projects, and I really like the format of Claude, but I get more used time out of Groc, even with the free versions of each application.
If I had to pick just one, I would definitely go with Claude. It has the best interface of any of the apps currently available on iOS, in terms of accessibility and functionality.