Opinions about Hey Lucid

[borski]

Respectfully, you and I are going to differ on this. We find the native Google Assistant in our other EV to be generally accurate and capable. Google has said their next step is to replace Assistant with their Gemini LLM. I'm looking forward to it.

I do respect that. As a counterpoint, I have had Google Assistant get things right like 30% of the time on average. Siri is like 70%. Alexa is like 15%.

Lucid Assistant is like 5%, but I can excuse this a bit because it’s new and they’ve only *built* like 10-15% of it lol, so I can’t fully judge it yet.

But they all suck, imho.

 

[Chrry]

My “Hey Lucid” doesn’t work unless I press the button on the steering wheel and then it doesn’t understand a thing I say….

I think the issue with mine is that they didn’t program her to respond to “Hey Luci” which is her name.
Sheesh, Lucid… what’s up with that?

 

[DeaneG]

I do respect that. As a counterpoint, I have had Google Assistant get things right like 30% of the time on average. Siri is like 70%. Alexa is like 15%.

We're around 95% accuracy with Google Assistant. We use it about 20x per day at home, and 2-3x per day in the car.

 

[DeaneG]

In current generation, general-purpose voice assistants, Google is currently the clear leader. I'm really looking forward to their introduction of LLM processing. IMO Amazon's Alexa won't compete well. Will Lucid? To be seen.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133324001034

 

[smorvay]

My entire house is run on Alexa, and I've never had an issue. I even have Alexa for the TV. Only problem I really have is it pipes in any time anything comes close to the sound of "Alexa".

I use google assistant on my phone, and for the car when I had Android Auto. It worked perfectly as well.

Hey Lucid is an abomination. It's completely useless.

Give me Android Auto!!!

 

[jbrichar]

Citation needed.

They developed Hey Lucid because Alexa sucks and Amazon wasn’t investing in it anymore. Nothing to do with Google, as far as I’m aware.

I respectfully disagree. To me the value in Alexa or Hey Lucid is to do things you would normally pick up your phone to do. Sure its cool to turn seat heaters on and off, change the temperature, etc but those functions and buttons are readily available in the car already. I need it to initiate calls to contacts (which works half the time), search and navigate to destinations by name (Navigate to San Diego Airport). search and call destinations by name like restaurants, ask it what the score is or time a game will start, ask it tell linked home automation apps to do something... These are the things I had with Alexa and do not have for the most part with Hey Lucid, thus a very disappointing switch. I'm glad to hear it has been an improvement for others but premature in my opinion. I just assumed the company wanted to stop paying Amazon licensing fees or something....

 

[borski]

I respectfully disagree. To me the value in Alexa or Hey Lucid is to do things you would normally pick up your phone to do. Sure its cool to turn seat heaters on and off, change the temperature, etc but those functions and buttons are readily available in the car already. I need it to initiate calls to contacts (which works half the time), search and navigate to destinations by name (Navigate to San Diego Airport). search and call destinations by name like restaurants, ask it what the score is or time a game will start, ask it tell linked home automation apps to do something... These are the things I had with Alexa and do not have for the most part with Hey Lucid, thus a very disappointing switch. I'm glad to hear it has been an improvement for others but premature in my opinion. I just assumed the company wanted to stop paying Amazon licensing fees or something....

I can guarantee you it had nothing to do with licensing fees. Alexa was not extensible enough and Amazon stopped funding the team, causing it to be broken for most people in many ways.

That said, I agree Hey Lucid is a v0 release. If they never improve it, I'll be pretty pissed. However, I can guarantee they're working very hard on improving it, and long-term it will be a better solution.

Otherwise, I agree it doesn't do as much as Alexa did, today.

 

[HC_79]

Hey Lucid is a v0 release

That’s being generous

 

[Amster]

I do respect that. As a counterpoint, I have had Google Assistant get things right like 30% of the time on average. Siri is like 70%. Alexa is like 15%.

Lucid Assistant is like 5%, but I can excuse this a bit because it’s new and they’ve only *built* like 10-15% of it lol, so I can’t fully judge it yet.

But they all suck, imho.

My experience is different. I was vacationing with my brother last March. A few questions came up during the cruise. He'd ask Siri and I'd ask Google. Siri could answer about 40% of the time. Google was giving good answers 90% of the time. By the end of the trip, he was just asking me to check my phone.

 

[borski]

My experience is different. I was vacationing with my brother last March. A few questions came up during the cruise. He'd ask Siri and I'd ask Google. Siri could answer about 40% of the time. Google was giving good answers 90% of the time. By the end of the trip, he was just asking me to check my phone.

I believe you, but that's sort of my point. They all suck; just all in different ways. Google hates me for some reason. Alexa hates me more. Siri gets me.

But now the iPhone temporarily sucks at autocorrect.