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It's also phonetically recognizable and distinct. It's one of the reasons you have to say "Hey Google" or "Hey Siri", but you're able to just say "Alexa" I fi
by gonehome 5y ago
It's also phonetically recognizable and distinct.
It's one of the reasons you have to say "Hey Google" or "Hey Siri", but you're able to just say "Alexa"
I find Siri the worst one for that, it often triggers on "serious".
- sanedigital 5y agoIf our Google Home triggers accidentally its usually easy to think back on what we said and find the offending phrase. Siri, on the other hand, seems to trigger several times a day without any explanation.
- mattkrause 5y agoI wonder if the problem is the /s/ sound at the beginning of Siri. Since it's a fricative, it sounds like the hissing noise produced by other kinds of turbulent flow.
- DonHopkins 5y agoIt's ok, you can just say "fart".
- mwcampbell 5y agoExcept that when my business partner and I are talking to each other about Alexa, we have to refer to it indirectly, e.g. "the A-lady", to avoid triggering his Alexa devices (I don't normally have one active).
- amysox 5y agoAs mentioned above, to my roommate and me, it's "the A bitch." :D
- lastofthemojito 5y agoThe nice thing about "OK Google" was that it sounded a lot like "Cocaine Poodle", so you could imagine your personal assistant was a hyperactive creature of limited intelligence. Which honestly, sets expectations appropriately.
- dougmwne 5y agoI would like to briefly visit your reality.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoYou can find a dealer at a corner near you X-)
- ISL 5y ago"Hay Poodle" seems, if not quite as good, to be in the same spirit.
- romwell 5y agoMy favorite command is: "Obey, Booble! Bind my bone!" Which is close enough to make Google find my phone :D
- chadlavi 5y agonot sure if it's still the case, but in a similar vein you used to be able to say "hey booboo" to google devices
- kilna 5y agoIt seems to respond to "OK Goebbels"
- jacquesm 5y agoVery appropriate.
- gumby 5y agoMy watch’s Siri seems to trigger when washing my hands, or sometimes when I am in the kitchen and somebody else opens the tap. I was on a zoom call the other day, both of us using speaker (no headsets) and something trigger both our watches to say, “sorry, I didn’t get that”, in each of our languages. At least we both laughed.
- jen729w 5y agoMine too, but I think you’re probably holding down the crown in the physical action of the washing. Your hands are bent in unusual ways and the back of your hand pushes up against the crown. I don’t think it’s responding to a vocal ‘Hey, Siri!’ in this case.
- newsbinator 5y agoMy “Hey Siri” triggers on the first attempt 25% of the time (neutral North American accent). I wonder if it’s a slow wake-from-sleep issue or something.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoIt works pretty much 100% here and I have a Dutch accent with Irish influences :) What kind of hardware do you use? Homepod or phone?
- newsbinator 5y agoOld (supported) iPhone
- userbinator 5y ago"Let's, uhh..." is a pretty common sentence starter in conversation and has been observed to trigger Alexa before.
- amysox 5y agoYes, this is why we can't talk about Alexa at home. My roommate and I, if we're not talking to it, refer to it as "the A bitch." :D