Rivian Switching from Alexa to Google Gemini - Bringing Voice / Text Integration (reported by RivianTracker)

[Rae11]

I mostly tell Alexa to STFU.

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[COdogman]

I hope the speech to text Gemini can spell better than Google's AI image creator

 

[Erik+]

 

[R1Thor]

I hope the speech to text Gemini can spell better than Google's AI image creator

Whatever do you mean @ CØböGG gm@V1???

 

[Dark-Fx]

I hope the speech to text Gemini can spell better than Google's AI image creator

Prompt: A conceptual and stylized portrait of an unsettling figure, a 'Dog Man', standing in a minimalist, liminal space. The atmosphere is dominated by a pervasive, faint, colorless gas, rendered as subtle, transparent tendrils of smoke that lightly obscure the figure. The figure itself is pale, almost translucent, with faint, stylized canine features. The color palette is restricted to muted grays, off-white, and a single, barely perceptible pale yellow/pink highlight. Abstract, eerie, unsettling, cinematic lighting, high detail, digital painting.

I think it doesn't understand your username either.... or maybe I don't.

 

[COdogman]

I think it doesn't understand your username either.... or maybe I don't.

This is my biography. Let me know if you have any questions.

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

Siri would like to have a word.... haha

 

[MountainBikeDude]

No sources given, but his info is almost always accurate. Good news for those who don't like Alexa, or those waiting for text integration. (and could explain why the text feature hasn't been rolled out yet)

https://riviantrackr.com/news/rivia...oogle-gemini-for-upcoming-ai-voice-assistant/



Credit to RivianTracker

I've actually known about this for a few months now. There was a bit of a glitch in the 2025.18 (June) software that allowed me to access some of it's beta integration. I gave Rivian the heads up at the time so they could sort the bug.

It shows text message handling capability being offered as part of the Gemini integration. I had figured the feature would have been out by now, but I'm sure there were still some integration issues to work around. Alexa was a decent middle ground, but not capable of the things Rivian was trying to implement going forward.

 

[RivianTrackr]

I've actually known about this for a few months now. There was a bit of a glitch in the 2025.18 (June) software that allowed me to access some of it's beta integration. I gave Rivian the heads up at the time so they could sort the bug.

It shows text message handling capability being offered as part of the Gemini integration. I had figured the feature would have been out by now, but I'm sure there were still some integration issues to work around. Alexa was a decent middle ground, but not capable of the things Rivian was trying to implement going forward.

Well, well, well...

 

[COdogman]

I've actually known about this for a few months now. There was a bit of a glitch in the 2025.18 (June) software that allowed me to access some of it's beta integration. I gave Rivian the heads up at the time so they could sort the bug.

It shows text message handling capability being offered as part of the Gemini integration. I had figured the feature would have been out by now, but I'm sure there were still some integration issues to work around. Alexa was a decent middle ground, but not capable of the things Rivian was trying to implement going forward.

Didn't even share it with your forum friends...

 

[Supratachophobia]

No sources given, but his info is almost always accurate. Good news for those who don't like Alexa, or those waiting for text integration. (and could explain why the text feature hasn't been rolled out yet)

https://riviantrackr.com/news/rivia...oogle-gemini-for-upcoming-ai-voice-assistant/



Credit to RivianTracker

Then this should mean all my Google Assistant Home Assistant commands could work..... Oh, I like this.

 

[Dark-Fx]

Then this should mean all my Google Assistant Home Assistant commands could work..... Oh, I like this.

"I'm sorry, Rivian assistant doesn't support that command"

 

[VSG]

No sources given, but his info is almost always accurate. Good news for those who don't like Alexa, or those waiting for text integration. (and could explain why the text feature hasn't been rolled out yet)

People blame Alexa a lot, but most of the problems have been on the Rivian end - Rivian did a very poor job of interfacing with Alexa and hasn't done much over the past three years to improve the integration. In fact, Rivian actually removed some features I used, like "Alexa, set a timer for 15 minutes" - timers were explicitly removed in an OTA update last (?) year.

Everything that you can do by pressing buttons on the center screen should be do-able by voice command as well. I make that my baseline - a voice control should allow you to control everything, especially when there are few physical buttons.

However, while "Alexa, turn on defrost" works just fine, "Alexa, turn on defog" does not. "Alexa, turn on seat heater" works, but "Alexa, turn on seat ventilation" doesn't "Alexa, show camera" works, but "Alexa, show navigation" does not. It's hit or miss.

This is not because of Alexa, this is because of the Rivian-written integration with Alexa.

If the integration with Google is done in the same way as the integration with Alexa, then we won't be seeing much improvement.

 

[MountainBikeDude]

Well, well, well...

I figured I'd let you get you break the news

 

[Donald Stanfield]

I hope it comes to Gen 1 too, or it's gonna be a salt mine in here for a while.

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