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I don't know much about this, but when I set Siri up I think it does some voice recognition so that I am the only one who can control the phone. Couldn't the s

I don't know much about this, but when I set Siri up I think it does some voice recognition so that I am the only one who can control the phone. Couldn't the same thing be done with Google and Alexa? During installation, one could add his own voice, and then your command "Google, add this voice" would allow you to add another member of the household.

pebers 10y ago
You can, although it seems to be well hidden on recent Android: - Settings - Languages & input - Keyboard and input methods > Virtual keyboard - Google voice typing - "Ok Google" detection There are options in there to train / retrain the voice model by saying "OK Google" to it several times, and then it should respond only to you.
- nkkollaw 10y ago
  Yes, I would make it like a first-run thing, that you _have_ to do it during setup (like Siri).
lightedman 10y ago
"I don't know much about this, but when I set Siri up I think it does some voice recognition so that I am the only one who can control the phone." No, as I can use my fiance's iPhone and our voices are at least a fifth apart in tone, he has a northern accent, I have southern drawl.
- ZoFreX 10y ago
  Does that work for the hands-free activation? The voice lock on Siri doesn't apply to queries once it's activated, only to the activation itself. E.g. if I say "hey Siri" while my phone has its screen off, it wakes up and waits for a query. If my girlfriend (or anyone else) says a query at this point it will respond to it. But if the screen is off and my girlfriend says "hey Siri", nothing happens.
  - nkkollaw 10y ago
    I see. That would still solve the problem the majority of times.
  - lightedman 10y ago
    "Does that work for the hands-free activation?" I don't even need to speak for that to happen. I just bend over with the phone in my back pocket and it wakes up, beeps, waits for me to say something (I say nothing,) boops, then goes "Sorry, I didn't get that."

pebers 10y ago

You can, although it seems to be well hidden on recent Android: - Settings - Languages & input - Keyboard and input methods > Virtual keyboard - Google voice typing - "Ok Google" detection There are options in there to train / retrain the voice model by saying "OK Google" to it several times, and then it should respond only to you.

nkkollaw 10y ago
Yes, I would make it like a first-run thing, that you _have_ to do it during setup (like Siri).

lightedman 10y ago

"I don't know much about this, but when I set Siri up I think it does some voice recognition so that I am the only one who can control the phone." No, as I can use my fiance's iPhone and our voices are at least a fifth apart in tone, he has a northern accent, I have southern drawl.

ZoFreX 10y ago
Does that work for the hands-free activation? The voice lock on Siri doesn't apply to queries once it's activated, only to the activation itself. E.g. if I say "hey Siri" while my phone has its screen off, it wakes up and waits for a query. If my girlfriend (or anyone else) says a query at this point it will respond to it. But if the screen is off and my girlfriend says "hey Siri", nothing happens.
- nkkollaw 10y ago
  I see. That would still solve the problem the majority of times.
- lightedman 10y ago
  "Does that work for the hands-free activation?" I don't even need to speak for that to happen. I just bend over with the phone in my back pocket and it wakes up, beeps, waits for me to say something (I say nothing,) boops, then goes "Sorry, I didn't get that."