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Google Assistant iOS update lets you say ‘Hey Siri, OK Google’
- setquk 8y agoI think we should genericise it to “oi! Phone!”
- gvx 8y ago"Alexa, say 'OK Google' to Siri"
- JustSomeNobody 8y ago"Cortana... Ah nevermind."
- partiallypro 8y agoCortana and Alexa were the first two assistants to integrate in some form. You can call Cortana from Alexa and Alexa from Cortana. I wish Apple would just let you opt out of Siri and let you choose Alexa, Cortana or Google. That would actually tempt me to move away from Android.
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- Apocryphon 8y ago"Yo, Bixby!"
- chrisshroba 8y ago"Pardon me, HAL..."
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- calcifer 8y agoThat sounds uncomfortably close to iPhone :)
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago“Computer” - is there a reason someone hasn’t done this? Is it too non-specific? Would this upset the owners of Star Trek?
- Andrex 8y agoThe Lego Movie got to it first.
- RussianCow 8y agoReminds me of The IT Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyV0IVItlM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyV0IVItlM4
- LeoPanthera 8y agoAmazon's Echo lets you use "Computer" as the hot word.
- post_break 8y agoI'd like it to be "oh captain my captain"
- melling 8y agoI went with “Hey Siri, Hey Google”
- HumanDrivenDev 8y agoSuperstar DJs. Here we go!
- aylmao 8y agoTempted to try "Hey Siri, wait not you"
- sschueller 8y agoI am curios why google and others don't let us change the wake up command. Technically I don't see an issue as the phrase can be setup to only work with your voice already. Is it because of the bad press that could be caused by people abusing this and posting about it?
- duskwuff 8y agoAt least on iOS, the first pass of wakeup phrase recognition is handled by a pre-trained ML model, based on data from a wide variety of speakers. Training a model for a user-chosen phrase would take a lot more samples, and a lot more time, than most users would be willing to put up with. There's some details on Apple's approach at: https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/10/01/hey-siri.html https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/10/01/hey-siri.html
- jscheel 8y agoOhhhh, interesting. They only use your additional training for speaker identification, so that someone else can't say "Hey Siri" to your device.
- Klathmon 8y agoI believe it's similar with a lot of the Google devices. Last I read, a pretrained ML trigger happens entirely on-device, and if the trigger happens, it sends the previous few seconds to the server that does the real processing to check voice match and other stuff.
- jdminhbg 8y agoAs far as I know that disambiguation is pretty naive, just your general voice register; i.e., you could fool it pretty easily if you were trying to. That's why it still requires you to unlock a device for personal requests.
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- dzhiurgis 8y agoAaand its not available outside of US for how many years now?
- ghostly_s 8y agoThe same dark pattern they document here trying to persuade you to enable "Web and App Activity" tracking is even worse in Google Maps for iOS, as I found when I disabled the feature after the press it received. No matter how many times you dismiss it, you'll again get a huge prompt on the homescreen urging you to turn it on in a few days. And they hold your home and work address hostage if you don't enable it, despite having nothing to do with the anti-feature in question. I hate this shite company.
- LeoPanthera 8y agoMy activity tracking is disabled and I don't see any prompt in the Google Maps app. Where should I be looking?
- amaccuish 8y agoIt popped for me at the bottom on Android.
- rhizome 8y agomaps on android is by far the neediest app on my phone, outpacing tinder by a pretty wide margin.
- on_and_off 8y agoneediest ?
- binarysolo 8y agoI would love it if they had an “Alexa, OK Google.” I have a pretty extensive Hue+Echo IoT setup, but it def feels like the Echo is training me to speak the “magical incantations”, instead of me using it to ask semantic queries. Siri is almost as bad too...
- kaybe 8y agoSo we seem to be on our way to a typical magical society.. once we hid all the infrastructure and our descendants cannot remember..
- amaccuish 8y agoI'm much more a fan of anthropomorphised voice assistants. Maybe it's because I identify as a socialist, but saying "OK [big brand], everytime is very grating. And "OK" is very awkward, "Alexa" for me is far easier.
- jotm 8y agoYeah, it would feel more personal. Not sure why Google hasn't created some virtual persona like Siri and Cortana...
- iagooar 8y agoBecause it's nerds building products at Google. Not even trying to be overly negative or critical here, just an observation. It can actually be seen as something positive in many ways (Android being super flexible vs iOS being more limited) YET (Android being less intuitive vs iOS being a lot more user-friendly).
- tacomonstrous 8y ago>Android being less intuitive vs iOS being a lot more user-friendly This is a piece of received knowledge that in my current experience of both is no longer true.
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- aylmao 8y agoIt's definitely a branding strategy-- if you think about it, companies pay thousands if not millions of dollars in ad campaigns that don't "sell" anything. Think product placement in movies, those logos in the back on some interviews, the banners around the field in football (soccer) matches, etc. They are meant to have you (consciously or subconsciously) simply think about a brand, and hopefully also associate it with something you might enjoy, like a good sports game or a character in a movie. Having you repeat the name of the company constantly in the intimacy of your home can only reinforce their brand for the better, and associate it with a helpful personality.
- wolfpwner 8y ago"Hey Siri, Ok Google, Alexa, Hey Cortana"
- josteink 8y agoAnd still won’t let me access my own Gsuite data, like my calendar or contacts. That’s some pretty shit priorities right there. Google, the king of half-assed solutions.
- bitmapbrother 8y agoSounds more like half-assed research. GSuite is a service for businesses and, as such, Google is obligated to implement certain rules on what can and cannot be done with GSuite business accounts.
- RazorOne 8y agoSounds more like half-assed research. GSuite is a service for businesses and, as such, Google is obligated to implement certain rules on what can and cannot be done with GSuite business accounts
- nixpulvis 8y agoGreat, now I need to speak with all this extra `require English; English::structure` isn't that kinda against the spirit of these things? I mean I personally never use Siri or others because I find it easier to get what I want without trying to guess how a computer will interpret. I have the same problem with people, and frankly computers are a nice reprive. Granted I'm not the general user.
- justfor1comment 8y agoHaha. I agree with this sentiment. An additional problem is that the user may not always know which voice assistant(library) can fulfill their request. So now one request has to be forked by the user into multiple ones or chained together to send the same data to all data mining companies. Hey Siri, ask Google to tell Alexa to add this to my shopping cart.
- opless 8y agoWow, awkward
- kamilafsar 8y agoI wish I could choose my default assistant like I can choose my default browser in iOS. AFAIK this is already possible in Android. Too bad we'll probably need some angry European politician to convince Apple.
- jtbayly 8y agoYou can choose your default browser in iOS? Since when?
- orta 8y agoYou can't, the OP most likely meant you can change the search engine for the default browser
- leppr 8y agoOr you could convince yourself to switch. Your only options for change in a closed platform are leaving, or coercion by force.
- somerandomness 8y agoAnybody have clear instructions on how to enable this?
- joemaller1 8y agoI was hoping for this, it's the first thing I thought to try after Shortcuts was released. Now we just need to get Alexa and Cortana onboard too. Hello, Amazon and Microsoft? "Hey Siri, ask (Google|Alexa|Cortana)..." Put them all behind the same interface, on the same device. Let us figure out which one actually works best -- though I'd rather have a "team" of digital assistants.
- judge2020 8y agoCortana already has an app on iOS, and Alexa has full response capability when used via Amazon Music, so it's only a matter of support. What I would like to see is specific "voice assistant" integration, where asking Siri something will bring up results from all of the voice assistants you've enabled/installed.
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- glenrivard 8y agoFantastic.