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Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands
- pmontra 10y agoIs all that information public? Or in other words, how does it work?
- ojii 10y agoNice list, is there one available for the other languages supported by Google Now?
- seren 10y agoSomehow it boggles my mind this is not provided by Google by default. I am pretty sure plenty of people are missing tons of features because they don't know it exists. I don't think trying everything (with some latency) until you got some good answer is a nice way to discover/explore.
- thirdsun 10y agoWhile I agree, I think the idea is that you don't need a list of commands in order to use the service. Instead you're encouraged to speak naturally - of course with varying results but I guess Google sees this as favorable compared to suggesting a manual/reference is needed.
- seren 10y agoI understand the rationale but I have the feeling we are still "not there", and in the mean time, this is kinda lacking. So thanks to op to provide a starting point. I'll definitely use it.
- izacus 10y ago"Speaking naturally" to Google Now for me means it's just going to google random stuff instead of doing actions. Even things like "Play next song" will make it google that term instead of switching songs.
- unfamiliar 10y ago"Play next song" is not speaking naturally.
- brokenmachine 10y agoWoosh. Missed the point entirely.
- Lendal 10y agoSpeaking naturally results in the thing doing something completely different from what I wanted. Once that happens a few times, I give up and stop wasting my time. For people like me, without documentation it's just another pile of garbage on the side of the road.
- piyush_soni 10y ago"Ok Google!", "What can I say?"
- asb 10y agoThis seems really well put together, but I can't help but wonder how long until it gets a takedown notice from Google?
- Viper007Bond 10y agoUsing Google in the domain name alone is enough for it to be taken down.
- thesimon 10y agoOn the other hand: http://www.paypalsucks.com http://www.paypalsucks.com
- schlowmo 10y agoHere is a good reading from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on domains like that: "Avoiding Gripes About Your Gripe (or Parody) Site": https://www.eff.org/wp/tips-shutting-down-g https://www.eff.org/wp/tips-shutting-down-g
- hammock 10y agoAnother classic http://www.untied.com http://www.untied.com
- MrBra 10y agoI never understood this well. For example the case of YouTube mp3 (http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ http://www.youtube-mp3.org/). In past Google tried to stop YouTube mp3 because of violations to the YouTube Terms of Service, but, if it is true that it only suffices using someone else's trademark in a domain for the owner to shut your domain down, then why did never Google attack it on this side?
- 10dpd 10y agoTechnologies used for a static list (!): react redux reselect aphrodite material-ui stylz redux-form react-helmet webpack faker lodash moment
- ColCh 10y agoIt's a modern javascript broh
- andybak 10y agoI've done similar with my Django stack - used way more code than needed for something simple. The reason is - if you've got a good boilerplate it's quicker and easier to use it than to start again - even if you don't need half the pieces.
- taejo 10y agoIt's not a static list, though: mouse over or click on the entries.
- acqq 10y agoI just get another element when I click but the question remains the same. Is there anything more? Looking at the source, I guess, for example, that the questions "How old is X" are all where X is "Adam Sandler", "Adele", "Akon", "Alec Baldwin" "Alicia Keys", "Alyssa Milano", "Angelina Jolie", "Ashton Kutcher", "Avril Lavigne", "Barack Obama", "Barbra Streisand", "Ben Stiller", "Beyonce", "Bill Gates", "Bob Marley", "Brad Pitt", "Britney Spears", "Cameron Diaz", "Carmen Electra", "Catherine Zeta Jones", "Charlie Sheen", "Chris Brown", "Christina Aguilera", "Cindy Crawford", "Daniel Radcliffe", "David Beckham", "David Duchovny", "Demi Moore", "Dr House", "Drake", "Drew Barrymore", "Eddie Murphy", "Eminem", "George Clooney", "Gwen Stefani", "Halle Berry", "Hugh Grant", "Jack Nicholson", "James Cameron", "Jason Statham", "Jay Z", "Jennifer Aniston", "Jennifer Lopez", "Jennifer Love Hewitt", "Jessica Alba", "Johnny Depp", "Julia Roberts", "Justin Bieber", "Justin Timberlake", "Katherine Heigl", "Katy Perry", "Kelli Williams", "Kesha", "Kevin Costner", "Kim Kardashian", "Kristen Stewart", "Lady Gaga", "Leonardo DiCaprio", "Lil Wayne", "Lionel Messi", "Madonna", "Marilyn Manson", "Marilyn Monroe", "Megan Fox", "Michael Douglas", "Michael Jackson", "Michael Jordan", "Michelle Obama", "Mike Tyson", "Miley Cyrus", "Muhammad Ali", "Nicki Minaj", "Nicolas Cage", "Nicole Kidman", "Oprah Winfrey", "Paris Hilton", "Pink", "Reese Witherspoon", "Rihanna", "Robert De Niro", "Robert Pattinson", "Roger Federer", "Ronaldo", "Sandra Bullock", "Sarah Jessica Parker", "Scarlett Johansson", "Selena Gomez", "Shakira", "Stephenie Meyer", "Steve Jobs", "Steven Spielberg", "Taylor Swift", "Tiger Woods", "Tom Cruise", "Tom Hanks", "Tyler Perry", "Uma Thurman", "Whoopi Goldberg", "Will Smith", "Woody Allen", It's easier to look at the list than to click every time for one random item from it. Interestingly, the first person Google recommends to me when I type "how old is" is not on the list.
- Angostura 10y agoReally useful. I have to say I'm not a fan of the bizarro dual scroll-bar shenanigans going on though.
- andreapaiola 10y agoOnly in english, maybe one or two only in USA?
- mherrmann 10y agoIs anybody else having trouble using Ok Google for sending texts? It recognizes the recipient alright but stops dictation way too early, even if I pause just for a second. Then it doesn't seem possible to resume dictation. Does anybody know how to get around this? (Android 5.1.1)
- Klathmon 10y agoask to send a message, then wait for it to prompt for who, and after that wait for a prompt for what you want it to say. I use that function while on my motorcycle through my helmet a bunch, and breaking it up like that allows me to confirm/deny each step because often the wind noise makes it impossible to hear what i said.
- gvurrdon 10y agoI find that sometimes, after the "OK Google, send a text to $PERSON" my watch will ask whether it should be to their mobile, work or home landline. A way to set it to only send text messages to mobiles would make sense but I can't find any way of doing that.
- smnscu 10y agoI don't use it to send messages, but the few times I tried to set a reminder with it in the past couple of months, it failed miserably, stopping dictation too early or simply ignoring the command entirely. On a Moto G (3rd gen), Android 6.0
- acqq 10y agoWhy this confusing UI (click to do what actually?) for the simple info that is there? Or am I missing something interesting by using Firefox?
- Lendal 10y agoI'm using Firefox too. I found the UI to be bizarre, but the content was so helpful I just tried to ignore it. This site finds a place on my bookmarks bar despite its horrific UI.
- Donzo 10y agoI used to love using the "remind me to" command. It was a fast and convenient way to set alarms. Recently, when I attempted to use it on iOS, I was hit with an alert that "reminders have been moved to the Calendar app," where it is far less convenient to set up a reminder. Instead of just setting the alarm with my voice and then confirming it, I have to use a click wheel to set the time, and it takes like three more steps. This is part of a larger trend I've noticed where large tech companies use their market share to bully their users into adopting their other applications. It baffles me how any one approves these ideas. Isn't it pretty short sighted to cripple your own product, to break features that users love to promote another unloved product? Isn't that arrogant? I hope this trend passes, but my guess is that it effectively drives adoption, so to hell with everything else, right?
- nl 10y agoIs that an iOS thing? On Android reminders through the Google Now interface seem to work fine.
- puddintane 10y agoYes he does mention it was on an iOS device in his post. It was a bit confusing at first but I'm absolutely sure he is talking about iOS with the scheduling reminders.
- zbuttram 10y agoSeems like he means the Google app on iOS, so this would be the Google app telling him to use the Google Calendar app in theory.
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- puddintane 10y agoNice to see he responded with that info. It was however after my comment so I was in a point of limbo at that point.
- nl 10y agoI think this is great, and at the same time highlights a usability problem with conversational interfaces: we don't know how to make them discoverable. Google attempts to do this by letting you stumble upon commands, but I don't think that is good enough. I don't think tutorials are either, but I don't have any solid alternatives.
- jenscow 10y agoHow about, when you perform an action manually it says "by the way, in future you can just tell me to ..."
- puddintane 10y agoI have a plugin for IntelliJ's Webstorm/Phpstorm that does just this and it's amazing - whenever I use an item that has a shortcut it pops open that short cut so I can slowly learn them. If I also use something that doesn't have a shortcut 3 times within the programs running then it asks me if I want to set a shortcut for that action. I think as time goes on Google will eventually be on this route considering how well it works (at least with the first portion of showing the shortcut command whenever I use it). However that still wouldn't solve the problem of the users having to learn the commands from scratch first so if they don't know it exists they would never learn the shortcut for it in "OK Google"
- ntpeters 10y agoWhat plugin is that? Sounds like that'd actually come in pretty handy!
- puddintane 10y agoIt's amazing and I will link the phpStorm/webStorm but as I am looking I am pretty sure it has been ported to all the IntelliJ products and even more. The only down side is it's not great on looks but honestly it's a popup to tell you a shortcut so it fits well for the purpose "Key promoter" https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/4455 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/4455
- GrantSolar 10y agoThis is really interesting. There's a lot of functionality I didn't know I had on my phone. A small typo I noticed is under "Device Control", an option is "Turn on/off Flaslight" rather than "Flashlight"
- znpy 10y agoOh god someone finally did this I have google now on my phone and I had no idea how to use it.
- init0 10y ago__OK GOOGLE TELL ME JOKE__ didn't work.
- arnarbi 10y agoTry without the underscores?
- smhg 10y agoThese I use heavily: remind me [time] to [something] wake me up at [time] countdown [amount] minutes add [something] to my shopping list I still get happy every time Google Now recognizes them correctly (75%). Being a native speaker and having a faster phone (Moto G) would add a few % I guess.
- qntmfred 10y agosuggestion - instead of scrollable divs, just make the page scroll like normal. can achieve the same UX without the wonkiness that comes with scrolly divs
- gruez 10y agoGreat, a site with an unskippable intro. But hey, at least it's in html5 and not flash!
- cheriot 10y agoThe Internet of Things won't take off until devices can hand Google/Amazon/Apple a list of nouns that respond to a list of verbs. Memorizing these voice commands is as clunky as using a different mobile app for each appliance. "Turn on the coffee machine when my alarm goes off" "Turn the stove down in 5 minutes" "Is the dryer done?"
- chdir 10y agoKudos to a clean & useful design. As a side note, it makes me wonder that with all the brainy AI, it's we who are still learning computer's language instead of the other way around. I hope that'll change in the next 3-5 years, where we don't have to memorize the syntax & limitations of voice commands.
- nfriedly 10y agoI have an Huawei watch (android wear) that I use "OK google" on quite frequently. It doesn't have a brightness sensor, though, and the one command I'd really like to see is something like "OK google set brightness to max" or something along those lines. (I usually keep it at the lowest brightness for indoor use, but then I can't see anything at all outside.) "OK google brightness boost" might work too if it lasted a bit longer. (There's a Brightness boost button, but it reverts back to lower brightness before I can finish whatever I wanted to do, so it's not very useful in practice. It doesn't even stay on long enough to open the settings and manually set the brightness to max.) (Oh, and if anyone from Google happens to read this, PLEASE fix reminders to appear at the correct time instead of 3 hours early.)
- 1812Overture 10y agoOK Google OK Google OK Google OK Google Navigate to nearest Target No goddamnit arg! back back OK Google OK Google OK Google Navigate to nearest Target Fuck! [Repeat]
- brokenmachine 10y agoLiterally laughed out loud at this one, spot on. Voice commands sound great in theory but the worst part is that you have to press the hardware back button to fix it when it (invariably) stuffs up. It's an absolute showstopper when trying to use it in the car.
- pvinis 10y agoPlease fix that site to work on mobile.. The sidebar is in fron of the content.
- beartear 10y agoThis was much needed for me. Thanks for your awesome html5 public gift. Simple & efficient design, great information.