How is it that we still don't have custom wake words on any smart home platform? I don't want to say your stupid name, I want my own wake command.
Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
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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 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…
Agreed. 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.
Most 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.
Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
#483My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music. Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music. It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens. Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the force…
Reminds me of the scene from The Simpsons:
When Bart, Lisa , Maggie and Marge were at the Mt. Useful Visitors Center, Bart went to a statue of Smokey the Bear. Smokey said "Only WHO can prevent forest fires ?" Bart then pressed the You button and Smokey said "You pressed you, referring to me, that is incorrect. The correct answer is you."
Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
#484Please don't name your song "Launch Nuclear Missiles".
Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
#485I used to come home and say “Ok Google, turn on the lights.” 80% of the time my lights would turn on. 20% of the time, I’d be greeted with: “Ok, playing ‘Turn on the Lights’ by Future on Spotify.” And I’d stand there in the dark, listening to music I don’t like, questioning my life decisions.
This mission is too important to allow you to jeopardize it, acid.
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#486The default responses for assistants are getting much worse, to the point where a misheard phrase can do a lot of things you don’t want instead of just stopping immediately. My favorite misfeature is babbling. Used to be you could just say “off” to stop a misinterpreted command, which worked fine because the assistant didn’t used to babble. Now though, its own rambling follow-ups interfere with its ability to even he…
I almost threw my thing against the wall when it did that after a 6am alarm
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Considering Amazon uses "Alexa" and Apple uses "Siri" and Microsoft uses "Cortana", it is strange that Google opted not to pick an alternative name
The team who developed it chose that so their product couldn’t be killed. Could you imagine the headlines? True story.
(By the way not a true story as far as I know -- it's just the kind of thing someone telling a tall tale usually finishes with).
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We 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 "…
"OK Computer, play some cheery music please" "#Karma.. Police.. Arrest this man, he talks in maths...#"
"That is something I cannot allow to happen."
Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
#489I used to come home and say “Ok Google, turn on the lights.” 80% of the time my lights would turn on. 20% of the time, I’d be greeted with: “Ok, playing ‘Turn on the Lights’ by Future on Spotify.” And I’d stand there in the dark, listening to music I don’t like, questioning my life decisions.
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…
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As a Radiohead fan I could live with the occassional misplaying of Ok Computer.
Amazon devices don't need the "OK" do that hasn't happened (to me). Though it can get a little confused occasionally when I'm playing some variety of Star Trek on the nearby TV.
My Alexa logs are 10% brief clips of Geordi Laforge making demands.