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I suspect the difference is "Is your accent common in the bay area?"
Tim Cook must hate Siri.
Tim Cook likely has a human Siri.
Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
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Some people claim I live in a cave and green lights match the season. I just thought I'd play the part. Maybe I'll try red next week and see how that goes. /s Actually, I set my living room to red because that's my favorite. And I set my dining room to blue because eating is cool. And when you gotta go then just look for the green light in the hallway in front of the bathroom. And my office is definitely purple in th…
I am glad that you get so much more color-related happiness from your lights than I do.
Ahh well I would say that while Philips Hue (name brand) does work well, it is too expensive for the value provided -- by about 2x to 3x. If they were half their current price then I would recommend them to affluent friends and family. If they were a third their price I would recommend them to even the less affluent friends and family. Even then it's significantly more expensive than a plain light bulb (even LED ones) but for that you gain colors and ease of remote use.
I have some colored lights from Eria that have about as good color spectrum and integrate with Zigbee base stations. They were about 1/2 the price of Philips Hue. But the downside is that they don't integrate with Apple Home. Apple Home (and Siri) only recognizes the expensive Philips Hue lights even though the Eria ones are connected to the same Philips Hue base station. So with the Eria lights I just change the colors manually with a third party app on my phone.
And as a bonus as a developer: Philips Hue has an API to work with the devices connected to the base station. It's super fun to tell coworkers about a script that sets my lights in the office (and visible in video meetings) to red because the server in the living room is having trouble. ;)
Re: 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.
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 "turn on the Chicago lights" when someone utters "Computer, please turn on the upstairs lights." So if you say "Computer, turn on the upstairs lights" it says "I don't know what upstairs lights are."
The disadvantage of this approach is that you need to get the string exactly as stored.
Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
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My toddler wants to hear a song 1000x, I can't do something like "Play 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed on repeat or in a loop or 10x" I have to tell it each time.
Could you just make a 10x looped version with Audacity? Or can it only play from its own library?
yeah but what happens when they want to listen to surfin bird on repeat the next day and banana phone on repeat the day after that? awfully clunky workflow.
Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
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You can say "Hey Google" now which I find much easier to say. Would be nice if you could rename it though.
Two words seem always worse than one in my point of view
At least two syllables are easier than three. (And "OK Google" is particularly tongue-twisty due to the repeated "oh" sounds.)
Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
#406I 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.
I'm genuinely curious if you have any idea -- -- is Google misinterpreting your voice? E.g. does it hear a sound it thinks is "play" in the middle of your phrase? -- or is it some weird statistical model that because of invisible and irrelevant correlations, sometimes concludes it's more likely you're asking for music? Like the song with that title is currently in the top 40, or was played by you in the past, or some…
-- is it because you don't speak with a 20-30 year old white male techbro bay area accented voice, so Google never even bothered testing whether it'd work for you?
(My brother in law is Australian living in the US, and has to use his "sarcastically fake American accent" to be understood on the phone. He, more politely than I, calls it his "phone voice". It's the same voice all my friends here use when parodying American stereotypes... I bet it works on Ok Google too.)
Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
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Two words seem always worse than one in my point of view
At least two syllables are easier than three. (And "OK Google" is particularly tongue-twisty due to the repeated "oh" sounds.)
> And "OK Google" is particularly tongue-twisty due to the repeated "oh" sounds.
It doesn't have repeated vowel sounds unless you pronounce it something like "OK Go-Goal"
It has, in order, one "o", one "u", and one "ə".
Re: Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
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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
„Ok Glass“
Google: /starts playing Einstein on the Beach, the 9-hour version/
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As someone who recently acquire a Clapper... I had forgotten just how finicky it could be. Can't clap too quietly, too loudly, too slowly, or too quickly. Often takes me three or four tries! Not exactly an enjoyable experience for the person sitting next to you...
Out of curiosity, is the proper clap speed the same as their song from their commercials? If so I feel like I could nail that cadence every time.
Also: would the clapper ad activate nearby clappers??
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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.
I think you can trigger Google assistant by using "OK Boo Boo". It works on the Google Home and on my Android phone, and is actually easier for toddlers.