Okay Google, you need a cuter name
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Okay Google, you need a cuter name
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#2"Hey Google" works as well, and I find it much easier to say than "Okay Google".
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#3Sidenote, but I wish the BBC would learn about this amazing HTML technology called the tag. For example:
> Or as Buzzfeed’s Mat Honan put it: “I actively hate saying ‘Okay Google’ because it makes me so aware I am interacting with a brand.”
That's from https://twitter.com/mat/status/793570508813893632 . But the BBC doesn't tell you that. You have to search for the phrase. It reminds me of the web c. 2001 when sites deliberately omitted links because they thought they'd lose the reader that way.
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#4"Hey Google" works as well, and I find it much easier to say than "Okay Google".
Personally I'd rather have a long press button activate it. Saying "OK Google"or any derivative is a waste of words me. Apple got it right with holding the home button to activate Siri. I'm really sure why this doesn't exist on Android as it seems to lower the friction quite a bit.
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#5"Hey Google" works as well, and I find it much easier to say than "Okay Google".
Personally I'd rather have a long press button activate it. Saying "OK Google"or any derivative is a waste of words me. Apple got it right with holding the home button to activate Siri. I'm really sure why this doesn't exist on Android as it seems to lower the friction quite a bit.
It does. Long press on the home button, or press and swipe up.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally I'd rather have a long press button activate it. Saying "OK Google"or any derivative is a waste of words me. Apple got it right with holding the home button to activate Siri. I'm really sure why this doesn't exist on Android as it seems to lower the friction quite a bit.
It does. Long press on the home button, or press and swipe up.
I might be doing it wrong but it might also be that I'm on a Nexus 4. When I do that it brings me to Google search but the voice prompt still needs to be activated via tapping the mic button or using the voice command. Is there a way to change that to just immediately activate it?
And what about from when the screen is off? I have a software home button so can't use it until the screen is turned on unfortunately.
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#7Microsoft pivoted from having you say "Xbox" to "Hey Cortana". I wonder if that change was a result of people preferring to interact with a personality, or just to make everything the same cross-platform. (Xbox, desktop, mobile).
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does. Long press on the home button, or press and swipe up.
I might be doing it wrong but it might also be that I'm on a Nexus 4. When I do that it brings me to Google search but the voice prompt still needs to be activated via tapping the mic button or using the voice command. Is there a way to change that to just immediately activate it? And what about from when the screen is off? I have a software home button so can't use it until the screen is turned on unfortunately.
Screen is off your only option is to talk to it. What version of OS are you running? Might not be backwards compat.
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#9"Hey Google" works as well, and I find it much easier to say than "Okay Google".
"Hey goo" would be perfect