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Re: Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands

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Post by squeaky-clean »

ntpeters wrote: post #42
puddintane wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a plugin for IntelliJ's Webstorm/Phpstorm that does just this and it's amazing - whenever I use an item that has a shortcut it pops open that short cut so I can slowly learn them. If I also use something that doesn't have a shortcut 3 times within the programs running then it asks me if I want to set a shortcut for that action. I think as time goes on Google will eventually be on this route considering how wel…

What plugin is that? Sounds like that'd actually come in pretty handy!

Guessing they're referring to Key Promoter.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/1003

Re: Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands

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Post by maxerickson »

nl wrote: post #29

I think this is great, and at the same time highlights a usability problem with conversational interfaces: we don't know how to make them discoverable. Google attempts to do this by letting you stumble upon commands, but I don't think that is good enough. I don't think tutorials are either, but I don't have any solid alternatives.

At a high enough level of sophistication you can just have conversational help.

Like if you ask Google Now "Can you help me set a reminder", it prompts you for details. That isn't discoverable per se, but it addresses a lot of the same problems, the user only has to understand that the system can answer questions about capabilities to have that conversation.

Re: Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands

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Post by pizzapill »

Gracana wrote: post #41
jenscow wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about, when you perform an action manually it says "by the way, in future you can just tell me to ..."

Like how google apps tell you to use the keyboard every time you try to copy/paste with your mouse? I hate that so much!

Imho this is because a lot of browsers don't support it because it does work in Chrome.

Re: Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands

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Post by CaptSpify »

Donzo wrote: post #27

I used to love using the "remind me to" command. It was a fast and convenient way to set alarms. Recently, when I attempted to use it on iOS, I was hit with an alert that "reminders have been moved to the Calendar app," where it is far less convenient to set up a reminder. Instead of just setting the alarm with my voice and then confirming it, I have to use a click wheel to set the time, and it takes like three more…

> This is part of a larger trend I've noticed where large tech companies use their market share to bully their users into adopting their other applications. It baffles me how any one approves these ideas. Isn't it pretty short sighted to cripple your own product, to break features that users love to promote another unloved product? Isn't that arrogant? I hope this trend passes, but my guess is that it effectively drives adoption, so to hell with everything else, right?

And this ecosystem thinking is why I'm shying away from Google products. I used to like them because each web-app had a different account tied to each one, and was standalone. And their android apps would let you pick and choose which app handled which jobs. But now they they are trying to move everything under one account umbrella, and force all of their apps to be the only one. No thanks Google, I chose android because you didn't do that.

Re: Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands

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Post by hammock »

jenscow wrote: post #36
nl wrote: post #29

I think this is great, and at the same time highlights a usability problem with conversational interfaces: we don't know how to make them discoverable. Google attempts to do this by letting you stumble upon commands, but I don't think that is good enough. I don't think tutorials are either, but I don't have any solid alternatives.

How about, when you perform an action manually it says "by the way, in future you can just tell me to ..."

The Google app does this in a lot of places, in addition to suggesting "things to try."

Re: Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands

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Post by asp2insp »

acqq wrote: post #22
taejo wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a static list, though: mouse over or click on the entries.

I just get another element when I click but the question remains the same. Is there anything more? Looking at the source, I guess, for example, that the questions "How old is X" are all where X is "Adam Sandler", "Adele", "Akon", "Alec Baldwin" "Alicia Keys", "Alyssa Milano", "Angelina Jolie", "Ashton Kutcher", "Avril Lavigne", "Barack Obama", "Barbra Streisand", "Ben Stiller", "Beyonce", "Bill Gates", "Bob Marley",…

My guess is that the list is a representative sample, and the dynamic nature is to indicate that it's variable. Google will correctly answer that question for anyone who has their own Wikipedia page with a birthdate (Try 'how old is Richard Stallman') so seeing the "full list" is not a useful piece of information

Re: Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands

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Post by kps »

Klathmon wrote: post #28
10dpd wrote: post #9

Technologies used for a static list (!): react redux reselect aphrodite material-ui stylz redux-form react-helmet webpack faker lodash moment

Do you actually have a problem that any of those are causing? I mean the site comes in at around 500kb transferred. That's not small, but it's also not obscenely large. A single large-ish image can easily blow that out of the water. Yeah, it could afford to lose some weight in the javascript (although looking at it now, i'm not sure they can. much of the size of the javascript is string literals for all of the option…

  > Do you actually have a problem that any of those are causing?
Inability to select the text.

Re: Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands

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Post by smhg »

These I use heavily:

remind me [time] to [something]

wake me up at [time]

countdown [amount] minutes

add [something] to my shopping list

I still get happy every time Google Now recognizes them correctly (75%). Being a native speaker and having a faster phone (Moto G) would add a few % I guess.

Re: Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands

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Post by drb311 »

nl wrote: post #29

I think this is great, and at the same time highlights a usability problem with conversational interfaces: we don't know how to make them discoverable. Google attempts to do this by letting you stumble upon commands, but I don't think that is good enough. I don't think tutorials are either, but I don't have any solid alternatives.

Discovering commands by trial and error isn't much fun because the fall back action -- a Google search for the words you said -- is so boring.

The conversational UI in text adventure games was fun to explore because the fall backs were sometimes funny.

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