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Well, the verbification of the word google introduces its own difficulties there. The ideal would be for the voice assistant to have some completely unique wor
by thayne 4y ago
Well, the verbification of the word google introduces its own difficulties there.
The ideal would be for the voice assistant to have some completely unique word, ideally with sound combinations that are very rare in your native language. And if for some reason, that still doesn't work for you, have a way to change it. Or maybe just not have a default, and require users to pick their own keyword.
- happymellon 4y ago> Computer! Earl Grey. Hot. I can't think of many words that rhyme with computer so would get picked up.
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoMuh brand identity/recognition though. There aren't many legitimate ways to have people audibly self hypnotise themselves using your brand. It's very black mirror.
- DangitBobby 4y agoMy roommate had an Alexa and we changed the wake word to computer... Didn't last long. Apparently the word computer comes up on casual conversation much more than you probably think.
- billpg 4y agoWelcome to the life of someone actually called Alexa.
- deafpolygon 4y ago"you should google that!" " I don't understand your query. "
- benwad 4y agoOk Google, Google "Google"
- another-dave 4y agoThe 21st century version of Buffalo buffalo buffalo...
- withinboredom 4y agoIn English, there’s only one word in the entire language with a ts sound (pizza) that’s not at the end. They probably could have come up with a name utilizing that fact, making wake words super “easy” to recognize and hard to accidentally say.
- xnorswap 4y agoThat fact seems dubious, does tzatziki not count?
- eCa 4y agoIs tzatziki the only word that both starts and contains, but doesn’t end, with ts sound?
- eesmith 4y agotsetse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsetse_fly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsetse_fly
- denton-scratch 4y agoTzatziki, Tsetse and Tzar are not English words; OP said there was just one English word (which he identified as "pizza", which isn't an English word).
- xnorswap 4y agoIt has foreign roots but it's surely an English word by any workable definition.
- eesmith 4y agoAnd "tsetse" has been used in English for nearly 100 years longer than pizza - the latter only really introduced because of Allied soldiers sent to in Italy. Google Ngram says it wasn't until the 1970s when "pizza" was more commonly used than "tsetse." https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tsetse%2Cpizza&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tsetse%2Cpizza... . Or from BoingBoing today, "North Americans feared and misunderstood pizza in the 1950s" - https://boingboing.net/2022/11/21/north-americans-feared-and-misunderstood-pizza-in-the-1950s.html https://boingboing.net/2022/11/21/north-americans-feared-and... .