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"OK Google" is the biggest problem I find with Google Home and Google Assistant so far. Things like "Alexa" and "Siri" are short and seem more practical. When I
by princevegeta89 6y ago
"OK Google" is the biggest problem I find with Google Home and Google Assistant so far.
Things like "Alexa" and "Siri" are short and seem more practical. When I say "Ok Google", I feel like doing a mouth-exercise. And multiply this extra effort over the number of times you need to apply it in a single session. It is a pain.
Why didn't Google ever change it?!
- cwkoss 6y agoPrivacy. Alexa and Siri get triggered unintentionally very frequently in normal conversation.
- tenacious_tuna 6y agoAnd Google Assistant doesn't? We quite often (~once a week, minimum) have our Home mini trigger off of some unrelated conversation. 50/50 on if "google" is ever mentioned, too.
- mritchie712 6y agoRight, Google was worried about privacy.
- sorenjan 6y agoMy Google Mini gets triggered several times a night when I'm watching video. Maybe 1/3 of the time it's somebody saying "ok", but most of the time it seems to be random.
- sz4kerto 6y ago"Ok Google" gets triggered by stuff like "OK cool", that I often say. It's maddening.
- Avamander 6y agoYou can say "okay boomer" and it triggers.
- Steltek 6y agoI frequently reply to my kids with "Ok, go $do_a_thing" and I almost always trigger my phone, even if it's in my pocket. The kicker is that I use "Hey Google" when I want the assistant so the "Ok Google" form is not even needed.
- PurpleFoxy 6y agoThis is why I only have Siri enabled on my watch which isn’t listening while the face is dimmed. And yet it still randomly triggers a few times a month
- aylmao 6y agoI agree it's harder to accidentally trigger it, but I doubt the reasoning behind it is "Privacy".
- ajhurliman 6y agoI'm not sure you understand their business model if you think they made the decision based off of privacy.
- appleflaxen 6y agoI don't believe any of the three when they say they aren't recording everything.
- synunlimited 6y agoYou can say "Hey Google" now which I find much easier to say. Would be nice if you could rename it though.
- princevegeta89 6y agoTwo words seem always worse than one in my point of view
- brianberns 6y agoAt least two syllables are easier than three. (And "OK Google" is particularly tongue-twisty due to the repeated "oh" sounds.)
- dragonwriter 6y ago> And "OK Google" is particularly tongue-twisty due to the repeated "oh" sounds. It doesn't have repeated vowel sounds unless you pronounce it something like "OK Go-Goal" It has, in order, one "o", one "u", and one "ə".
- panda88888 6y agoHey googoo also works
- bobbylarrybobby 6y agoSaid with the intonation of Yogi Bear’s “hey booboo”, it’s actually quite enjoyable
- kevincox 6y agoI actually find this much easier to say.
- schmappel 6y agoAs does "Hey Cookie", though it might just be because of my Dutch accent.
- ehsankia 6y agoIs it actually just "Siri" or "hey siri?" How is that much different from "Hey Google", both are 3 syllable. Alexa is too though I agree just saying the name flows better.
- PurpleFoxy 6y agoI’m no language expert but the difference I can notice is the word Siri comes from the tip of the tongue and feels a lot easier than google where G comes from the back of the mouth and is more awkward.
- aimor 6y agoThis was an option on the Moto X second generation phone. I have no clue why Google decided to remove the feature of setting the wakeup phrase, but at the time they were actually touting it as an upcoming feature (I guess to get me to upgrade my phone). So being forced to say ”OK Google" is actually a regression from previous capability. https://www.droid-life.com/2014/12/04/moto-x-tip-use-a-whistle-instead-of-a-cheesy-phrase-to-launch-moto-voice/ https://www.droid-life.com/2014/12/04/moto-x-tip-use-a-whist...
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