I’ve had a lukewarm experience with Google’s voice recognition. Between my phone and a few Nest Mini devices, it’s not uncommon for the device I’m speaking into to misunderstand or outright not pick up on my Hey Google cue. And when I do so I have to speak very clearly almost to the point of it being unnatural.
I hate to say it but I’ve used others’ Amazon/Apple devices and it’s not nearly as difficult.
Welcome to the future