I would hope that it's more like "after and including the wake word" so that they are capturing the audio needed to better train their algorithms on false wakes

I would hope that it's more like "after and including the wake word" so that they are capturing the audio needed to better train their algorithms on false wakes. I would much rather they analyze "a stray noodle on the floor" and eventually figure out that it shouldn't have woken, than analyze "on the floor" by itself and not be learning about the nuances of noodles. A hobby of mine is seeing how far away from "Hey Google" I can stray. The accessibility feature to beep on wake helps with this.