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The device really should implement speaker identification before accepting commands, yeah. Seems like a task a machine learning focused company like Google real

The device really should implement speaker identification before accepting commands, yeah. Seems like a task a machine learning focused company like Google really should be able to accomplish.

tomw2005 9y ago
They have Trusted Voice on Android[0]. Hopefully it is only a matter of time before it is on the Google Home. [0] https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6093922 https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6093922 - last entry.
CPLX 9y ago
There exists a far simpler solution to this problem. Just allow every buyer to give the device their own unique wake name.
- adrianN 9y ago
  And require enough entropy to make it hard to guess. Maybe now is the time to start learning Khoisan to get some unusual phonemes in your pronunciation toolkit.
- untog 9y ago
  But there is a reason they have the wake names they have - they're unique and don't sound like other phrases. I recall reading something about how Alexa was chosen because "ah-LECK-sah" is a very unique sound. I strongly suspect this is why we have "oh-kay Google" and not just "Google". So if people have to choose their own, they'll have to choose one that is also not easily mistaken. Something tells me that would be a very annoying process.
  - CaptSpify 9y ago
    I have friends who have an alexia. It wakes up to unrelated words on its own all the time. How can a company like google or amazon know what words are commonly used in a household anyway? protip: they can't. It's not that they chose those keywords for uniqueness, they chose them for branding purposes.
    - CPLX 9y ago
      Yeah and presumably to head off a million YouTube videos of people naming it dumbass, then saying "Hey dumbass what's the weather" and so on.
  - nrb 9y ago
    I'd imagine we don't have just "Google" because the word Google comes up in conversation in many contexts that are not the user requesting assistance from Google Home.
criddell 9y ago
"My voice is my password." I watched Sneakers recently and I think it really holds up.
- alanfalcon 9y ago
  Close... https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/aaef2483-5214-4802-9257-a3452ae16e09 https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/aaef2483-5214-4802-9257-a3452ae...
yupyup 9y ago
Motorola Android phones like Moto X Pure/Style had voice identification. You had to record the wake phrase 3 times and the voice assistant would only listen to your commands. It worked quite well, I don't know why Google Home doesn't have anything like this.

The device really should implement speaker identification before accepting commands, yeah. Seems like a task a machine learning focused company like Google really should be able to accomplish.

tomw2005 9y ago

They have Trusted Voice on Android[0]. Hopefully it is only a matter of time before it is on the Google Home. [0] https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6093922 https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6093922 - last entry.

CPLX 9y ago

There exists a far simpler solution to this problem. Just allow every buyer to give the device their own unique wake name.

adrianN 9y ago
And require enough entropy to make it hard to guess. Maybe now is the time to start learning Khoisan to get some unusual phonemes in your pronunciation toolkit.
untog 9y ago
But there is a reason they have the wake names they have - they're unique and don't sound like other phrases. I recall reading something about how Alexa was chosen because "ah-LECK-sah" is a very unique sound. I strongly suspect this is why we have "oh-kay Google" and not just "Google". So if people have to choose their own, they'll have to choose one that is also not easily mistaken. Something tells me that would be a very annoying process.
- CaptSpify 9y ago
  I have friends who have an alexia. It wakes up to unrelated words on its own all the time. How can a company like google or amazon know what words are commonly used in a household anyway? protip: they can't. It's not that they chose those keywords for uniqueness, they chose them for branding purposes.
  - CPLX 9y ago
    Yeah and presumably to head off a million YouTube videos of people naming it dumbass, then saying "Hey dumbass what's the weather" and so on.
- nrb 9y ago
  I'd imagine we don't have just "Google" because the word Google comes up in conversation in many contexts that are not the user requesting assistance from Google Home.

criddell 9y ago

"My voice is my password." I watched Sneakers recently and I think it really holds up.

alanfalcon 9y ago
Close... https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/aaef2483-5214-4802-9257-a3452ae16e09 https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/aaef2483-5214-4802-9257-a3452ae...

yupyup 9y ago

Motorola Android phones like Moto X Pure/Style had voice identification. You had to record the wake phrase 3 times and the voice assistant would only listen to your commands. It worked quite well, I don't know why Google Home doesn't have anything like this.