if youre unfamiliar, its an accessibility app made by google, for controlling your phone with your voice. this is different to the “OK google” thing.

I’m disabled, and I avoided owning a phone for many years because they’re so painful to use. but this year I finally had to get one, so I got a samsung s10e. but this voice access app is just… terrible? its really buggy, struggles to understand me way worse than Talon (a PC voice control program), and loves to do things I don’t tell it to.

it also doesn’t even make my phone fully accessible, theres tons of gestures it just can’t do, and I can’t add custom ones.

basically… am I doing something wrong? is there some trick I don’t know about? or is android accessibility really this bad? is there anything I can do?

  • zubfop@feddit.ch
    2·
    11 months ago

    maybe a flagship from a year or two ago

    Is that not what an S10e is?

    • fiat_lux@kbin.social
      4·
      11 months ago

      Sadly no, s10e launched March 2019, 4 years ago and was specifically the non-flagship price compromise version of the s10 and s10+.

      I wish a couple of years didn’t make a big a difference as it does.

      • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍@lemmy.ml
        2·
        11 months ago

        Well, yes and no, good phone from 4 years ago it’s still very usable now, unlike 6-7 years ago, before Xiaomi showed the world budget phones don’t have to be shitty

      • fiat_lux@kbin.social
        1·
        11 months ago

        Standard Android app on a Samsung implementation of an Android OS UI. These things are not as deeply intertwined as they might seem. Not even the different Android Accessibility apps and settings are guaranteed to work well together, because they’re often made by entirely different teams.