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We have both a Google thingy and an Alexa in the bedroom, used almost solely as alarm clocks. I use Alexa, my partner uses Google.

Alexa works just about perfectly, setting, unsetting and snoozing alarms as needed. But Google is almost comically incompetent. "Hey google, set an alarm for 4:20 am" -- "Alarm set for 8 pm".

When Alexa starts ringing, I can quietly say "stop" or "snooze". To get Google's attention when it is making noise, both of us have to scream at it more ofte than not.

Yeah I think Home significantly deteriorates with time.

- refuses to understand English at times (maybe it's picking some weird localisation)

- will not hear. Period. Literally have to shut the power couple times.

Sounds like the Google product is doing its job - awaking you and getting you out of bed :)

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