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You're talking about different concepts. Voice recognition used by things like Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana, and Alexa usually relies on a "wake word", wher
by daveoc64 6y ago
You're talking about different concepts.
Voice recognition used by things like Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana, and Alexa usually relies on a "wake word", where it's always listening to you, but only starts processing when it is confident you're talking to it.
Older speech recognition systems were either always listening and processing speech, or only started listening after you pressed a button.
The obvious downside of the older systems is that you can't have them switched on all the time.
- jotm 6y agoI think it would be really easy to create an app that would also listen to a very specific phrase (like "Hey Merlin", simple pattern match, with a few minutes of training for your own voice) and then start Google Assistant. It's so embarrassing saying Hey Google all the time, and for me, it just feels like I'm a corporate bitch, tbh. It's true, which just makes me feel worse :D