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As a Google employee, I really don't want to be saying "Ok, Google" in my home all the time. It's totally possible for me to go to work in a subway that has Goo
by pradn 6y ago
As a Google employee, I really don't want to be saying "Ok, Google" in my home all the time. It's totally possible for me to go to work in a subway that has Google ads, waste time on my Pixel, work at the Google office for eight hours, waste time on my Pixel, walk past the same ads on the way home, watch YouTube videos and do Google searches about random topics, and ask Google to set an alarm before I go to sleep. It's too much. :)
- xd1936 6y agoAgreed. And I have a small child. I _really_ don't want them to be forming "relationships" with brands by asking robot assistants named after corporations to do stuff.
- malandrew 6y agoYou can also think of it as a robot assistant that is named after a number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers#Named_numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers#Named_numbers
- pinewurst 6y agoNo, we're their numbers...
- medium_burrito 6y agoLike that makes it any better. "I am not a number I am a free man!"
- tclancy 6y agoYou are Number Six.
- crtasm 6y agoNot that I want any part in increasing use of always-listening devices, but can't you change the trigger word on these things? I've been meaning to have a play with https://mycroft.ai/ https://mycroft.ai/ but only out of interest, I don't see myself leaving it running.
- hrktb 6y agoFor Google devices you can’t change the trigger. Now you can mispronounce it, that’s the only leeway we get.
- naravara 6y ago> Now you can mispronounce it, that’s the only leeway we get. Not a bad option. I would much prefer asking 19th century Russian author, Nikolai Gogol, to turn on the lights.
- spoonjim 6y agoWe have kids too. We use "Computer" which is one of the wake words offered by Amazon because we don't want our kids to get used to the idea of bossing around a person. Also, I've mapped all of the functions we use to "recipes" that include the word "please" so that they don't work unless you use the word "please." i.e. the upstairs lights are named as for example "the Chicago lights" and there is a recipe that says "turn on the Chicago lights" when someone utters "Computer, please turn on the upstairs lights." So if you say "Computer, turn on the upstairs lights" it says "I don't know what upstairs lights are." The disadvantage of this approach is that you need to get the string exactly as stored.
- hanoz 6y ago"OK Computer, play some cheery music please" "#Karma.. Police.. Arrest this man, he talks in maths...#"
- WalterBright 6y ago"That is something I cannot allow to happen."
- skaber 6y agoI think you can trigger Google assistant by using "OK Boo Boo". It works on the Google Home and on my Android phone, and is actually easier for toddlers.
- enobrev 6y agoThis is what has led us to stop using our assistants around the house. I have 4 of those little google pucks around the house that we used for various tasks and automations. Now that we have a 1-year-old we almost never use them because I don't want him learning the phrase "ok google". It sounded dumb enough for two adults to say it all day, but the convenience was worth it. Having my little one start using the phrase to talk to things is definitely where I draw the line. Besides, now that it tries to make suggestions after every other command all you really hear in my house in regards to them is "hey google shut the fuck up and do what you're told". Unfortunately the stupid puck doesn't allow you to interrupt the unsolicited FAQ any longer. Come to think of it, I think I'm getting rid of most of these things this weekend.
- tyingq 6y agoThat's interesting. The Amazon devices can be configured with a wake word of "Alexa", "Amazon", "Echo" or "Computer". I see Google offers no way to not say "Google".
- Talanes 6y agoMy Alexa really needs a way to whitelist commands. I bought it to be a wireless clapper and fancy alarm clock. If it thinks I'm asking it anything outside of those two domains, I am not. Of course Amazon isn't likely to ever do such a thing, because god forbid we don't have the ability to suddenly order something from Amazon on every device at all times.
- curryst 6y ago> Of course Amazon isn't likely to ever do such a thing, because god forbid we don't have the ability to suddenly order something from Amazon on every device at all times. Comically, that's actually one of the things its the worst at. I tried to do it exactly once and swore I would never do it again. In the time it takes to read the first search result, I could have found and ordered what I want from my phone. If that's what they were going for, I can't believe they didn't scrap the project. Supposedly they're fairly good at re-ordering, but given how often Alexa mis-hears me, I'm not a fan of doing anything involving money on it.
- dimitrios1 6y agoMost likely, everyone you know, especially outside of tech, when referencing a search engine, says to "google it". There are, unfortunately, millions of ways we form relationships with brands. A brand's reason for existing is to live somewhere in our psyche either subconsciously or consciously. We say "Q-tip" instead of cotton swab, "band-aid" instead of bandage, "Advil" when we need ibuprofen, or "Tylenol" when we want acetaminophen. When we see white polar bears around Christmas time, we think of Coca-Cola, and so on and so forth. All that to say, kudos for you for taking a principled approach, but I am not sure it's going to achieve much.
- JacobSuperslav 6y agoi got a toddler and i found out thay saying "ahh-goo-goo" activates Google assistant :D
- npongratz 6y agoJust wait (a few years, perhaps) until you buy or rent that sweet new self-driving car and try to get out of town for some rest and relaxation... you turned off the radio, but that doesn't matter, because Big G uses the windshield as a billboard looming into your personal space, beaming ads to the most captive audience that exists.
- idrios 6y agoThe future is now. Already my local gas station has a screen that starts playing ads the moment you start pumping gas. The mute button on it is broken from being pushed too many times, too hard. Last year my parents rented a room at a 5 star hotel. The hotel had a smart mirror and I only ever saw that mirror play ads. It's insane.
- kwijibob 6y ago"Ok, Google" makes everyone hate saying the word "Google". It is now linked to the emotions of frustration and anger forever.
- TAForObvReasons 6y agoConsidering Amazon uses "Alexa" and Apple uses "Siri" and Microsoft uses "Cortana", it is strange that Google opted not to pick an alternative name
- ViViDboarder 6y agoIs out? Since when has Google been good at branding? Look at Google/Android TV’s history. Or even Google Play.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y ago> Since when has Google been good at branding? Google's Mid-2000s marketing and product-nomenclature was on-point though: * Google Mail * Google Maps * Google Image Search
- arwineap 6y agoIt'll all answer to "heyyy goo goo" - I like pretending I'm yogi bear
- thekyle 6y agoAlso "heyyy boo boo" works for me
- nullsense 6y agoFuck, I never thought of it that way. Man. Seems kinda relentless. Submit a PR that responds to "Ok Google, enough!" by degoogling your life including automatically submitting your resignation.
- pradn 6y agoHah! Nothing I ever do will ever remove the "ex-Googler" appellation from me, and it's kinda existential man.
- WalterBright 6y agoThis conversation can serve no purpose any more.
- tlrobinson 6y ago“Ok Google” also feels very cold compared to “Hey Siri” or “Alexa”
- razster 6y agoAlso being spied on, according to the latest bit of news. Escape while you can I say.