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Pixies keep switching off my morning alarm, says Google Pixel owner
- LegitShady 3y agothis is not a pixel problem, this is an operator problem. If you change your alarm tone to "ok google call 911" its your fault too.
- wcoenen 3y agoTheir alarm was playing a random song from a playlist. One of those songs happened to have the utterance "stop" near the beginning of the song. Seems a bit much to expect users to review their entire playlist for anything that could potentially be misinterpreted as a voice command.
- croisillon 3y ago"ok google call 911" is a slightly better song than "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--" imho
- PurpleRamen 3y agoThere is no "ok google" in the song. How can this reaction be the operator's fault?
- lloeki 3y agoI was wondering if the high pitched "ooooh" before the STOP would pass as "ok google" to the machine, but TFA reports that in the case of alarms it just listens to "stop"? (still, not an operator error in my book)
- nottorp 3y agoGoogle in its infinite wisdom scrapped the need to say "Hey Google!" before stopping or snoozing an Assistant alarm with the Pixel 6 From TFA
- happytoexplain 3y agoFrankly, this has got to be one of the most unreasonable claims of "it's the user's fault" I have ever seen.
- teeray 3y agoI feel like Lil Jon would be perfect for the song “ok google call 911”
- DubiousPusher 3y agoStories like this make me really miss, the "Reply All" podcast and its "Super Tech Support" segment.
- prepend 3y agoWouldn’t it be possible for the phone’s listening to ignore anything it, itself, is playing?
- fryry 3y agoI use this pixel feature all the time, it does make it a bit too easy to snooze the alarm though. You want a bit of friction.
- iudqnolq 3y agoReminds me of how for the past few months Google Assistant regularly asks me "Auto read is on. Would you like to turn it off?" The insecurity is grating. I explicitly enabled this. I haven't wanted to turn it off the last hundred times you asked. Can you take a hint? Or at least make no a valid response, not just yes I'd like to turn it off?
- WeylandYutani 3y agoJust delete Google assistant. I assume that's possible on a Pixel?
- kneebonian 3y agoIt is not, the best you can do is try and disable it.
- _odey 3y agoI think you can delete it by connecting with adb and uninstalling the apk.
- izacus 3y agoThat's like the most broken way to do it. Instead go to "Google" app -> Settings -> Assistant -> General -> Switch it off. If you're still paranoid, disable the "Google" app as a whole in app settings which will do what your adb stuff was supposed to do.
- boring_twenties 3y agoI thought it was baked into the Google app, and not shipped as a standalone apk
- iudqnolq 3y agoBut I like that it reads texts to me while I'm driving. The whole problem is I don't want to turn it off.
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- dontlaugh 3y agoWhy would the phone listen for commands while it's playing music? My iPhone doesn't do it, at least. Seems much more reasonable to me.
- cyclecount 3y agoSiri will listen when music is playing; this is quite handy actually because you can say things like "make it louder" or "stop playing music".
- rythmshifter 3y agoOr what song is this
- dontlaugh 3y agoDoes that work on any iPhone? I’ve never considered doing it on purpose.
- whywhywhywhy 3y agoProper implementation should be filtering its own audio output stream out of the assistant mic input as it gets reflected back in.
- flangola7 3y agoI'm not sure how you would do that. The audio it hears will be very different than the original waveform it is playing.
- lancesells 3y agoApple definitely does this. The homepod is pretty great at picking up a voice with loud music playing. But then it goes to Siri...
- prepend 3y agoIt needs to listen for the stop command. I have an alarm that plays a song. I don’t want to listen to the whole song every morning so I stop it once I’m up and going. This is through Alexa though and Alexa repeats the song until you stop it.
- jtvjan 3y agoSomeone in the Reddit comments recorded a video of it happening: https://streamable.com/qdhin3 https://streamable.com/qdhin3
- hahamrfunnyguy 3y agoThis story was posted earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35778337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35778337 https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/134so18/i_finally_figured_out_why_my_alarm_kept_turning/ https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/134so18/i_fina...
- lloeki 3y agoI seem to recall there was an ad for Xbox One that had it say "Xbox on" or "Xbox record that" or something, and when the ad played nearby, the Xbox (through Kinect) would pick that up and act accordingly.
- pixl97 3y ago2035: "This is an alert from the emergency broadcast system. Whatever you do, do not say 'Siri, create a paperclip maximizer'.... What, what do you mean that every phone that heard that message is now attempting building a paperclip maximizer BROADCAST TERMINATED
- ceejayoz 3y agoI'm surprised no one's made a song with the lyrics "Alexa, purchase <album name>... yes".
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agohttps://xkcd.com/1807/ https://xkcd.com/1807/
- haunter 3y agoPeople did this back in the day. If you had the name "Xbox sign out" and people called you out in voice chat then Xbox signed them out of their system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWZLa4AnN5k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWZLa4AnN5k
- dariusj18 3y agoThe Cookie Monster ads used to trigger my GF's Siri with "Hey Siri". I couldn't with my normal voice, but when I impersonated Cookie Monster it worked.
- jxi 3y agoDoes iOS have the same problem of not being aware of the sounds it's playing itself?
- justinclift 3y agoHeh, streaming radio could go all kind of wrong with this "feature". ;)
- nottorp 3y agoThe obligatory xckd: https://xkcd.com/1807/ https://xkcd.com/1807/
- Topgamer7 3y agoMy pixel 7 keeps breaking the google assistant "Hey google" functionality. I have to go into settings, remove it as the "assistant app" completely, then re-add it. Then it'll work for ~8 hours.
- falcolas 3y agoRelatedly, Apple has a feature which will silence your alarms when you look at the phone. Which apparently my phone thinks I do periodically while I'm dead asleep. It's frustrating to wake up naturally and see the "Snooze/Stop" screen when the phone's dead silent. I can commiserate, Pixel owners.
- eternityforest 3y agoMy phone(LG G8 Thinq) will occasionally turn Bluetooth and location off somehow. This caused some of trouble before I figured it out, since I had taken those off the shortcuts tray, because there's never any times I want them turned off. I want the opposite of a hardware killswitch!