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Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

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Post by dspillett »

cacarr wrote: post #539
dspillett wrote: post #454

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"OK Google"/"hey Google" is one of the reasons I went with Amazon's products instead! (other reasons include that they seem to understand my voice more reliably than Google or Microsoft's systems). I get to call it Computer instead of Alexa too, though if I were stuck with Alexa it would still be preferable to Google (or Amazon for that matter). It's isn't just branding though, if I'm right. The wake word needs to be…

I do seem to recall that being able to set a customer wake-word was in the works at one point. I don't see why the system could not be designed such that one could submit a wake-word, which is analyzed for suitability in terms of being sufficiently distinct in complex audio environments, and then checked against a blacklist. Shouldn't be beyond Google's technical capabilities. The thing is, a LOT of people avoid Goog…

> then checked against a blacklist

Unfortunately "enumerating the bad" is a strategy that never survives contact with the public.

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Post by curryst »

Talanes wrote: post #499
enobrev wrote: post #421

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This is what has led us to stop using our assistants around the house. I have 4 of those little google pucks around the house that we used for various tasks and automations. Now that we have a 1-year-old we almost never use them because I don't want him learning the phrase "ok google". It sounded dumb enough for two adults to say it all day, but the convenience was worth it. Having my little one start using the phras…

My Alexa really needs a way to whitelist commands. I bought it to be a wireless clapper and fancy alarm clock. If it thinks I'm asking it anything outside of those two domains, I am not. Of course Amazon isn't likely to ever do such a thing, because god forbid we don't have the ability to suddenly order something from Amazon on every device at all times.

> Of course Amazon isn't likely to ever do such a thing, because god forbid we don't have the ability to suddenly order something from Amazon on every device at all times.

Comically, that's actually one of the things its the worst at. I tried to do it exactly once and swore I would never do it again. In the time it takes to read the first search result, I could have found and ordered what I want from my phone. If that's what they were going for, I can't believe they didn't scrap the project.

Supposedly they're fairly good at re-ordering, but given how often Alexa mis-hears me, I'm not a fan of doing anything involving money on it.

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Post by core-questions »

dspillett wrote: post #559
core-questions wrote: post #557

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We can all use the extra exercise of going up and down the stairs one more time, friend!

I run long distances. After that and not properly stretching off, going down stairs is more work than it sounds!

Fair deal, you've earned your slack time.

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Post by will_pseudonym »

will_pseudonym wrote: post #24
Zelphyr wrote: post #19

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I coined "Brogdon's Law" (probably not original to me by any stretch) several years ago: The answer to any technical problem will present itself within 30 seconds (sometimes minutes) of asking "Hey, can you take a look at this?"

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." The concept is named after Ward Cunningham, father of the wiki. According to Steven McGeady, the law's author, Wikipedia may be the most well-known demonstration of this law. Cunningham's Law can be considered the Internet equivalent…

BTW, the entirety of my post after the URL is simply quoting from that page. I would have liked to have remembered to put ">" in front of those paragraphs so it was clear that I didn't write all of that, but c'est la vie.

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Post by inetknght »

jachee wrote: post #518
inetknght wrote: post #392

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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 love the fact that I can call out any X11 color name. For working during the day, my office lamp is "banana mania". For dinner time, the dining room lights are "topaz". You can also set a light to a color manually, then ask Siri what color it is. (This is how I discovered "banana mania" which is Siri's name for the color Hue calls "concentrate".

> ask Siri what color it is

Never even thought of this. That's modern day software discoverability for you

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Post by Hnrobert42 »

pimlottc wrote: post #146
Hnrobert42 wrote: post #115

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I don’t use Siri for much, and I certainly don’t have it always listening. But I did hack out a useful Shortcut to record my blood pressure and heart rate to Apple Health. I say, “Add blood pressure 120 over 80 plus 60.” Then I use the shortcut to parse the string on the / and +, and record it to Health. The hard part was finding delimiters that Siri would consistently record as a single character. That and realizing…

That sounds useful. What’s the third number, BPM?

Right. My blood pressure cuff records systolic, diastolic, and beats per minute. Apple health lets you record all three of those measures.

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Post by dwd »

dspillett wrote: post #466
dwd wrote: post #465

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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.

Thanks, now I can't read "Computer" without it being in Patrick Stewart's baritone.

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Post by efreak »

Schwolop wrote: post #434

Dear Google/Alexa/Cortana/Siri product managers in the streaming audio space, here is what we actually want: * "never play that song ever again" * "add to my blocked list" * "set the plays limit for Baby Shark to once per day" * a feature that prevents interpretation of any phrase leading to the same result, if the response to that result led to a "stop!" or "for fuck's sake!" within the next ten seconds. i.e. stop d…

You forgot:

- stop giving me suggestions. Alternatively, don't give me the same suggestion again within a month of the last time you have it to me. - you've got the weather, that's great. Now stop repeating the same unwanted information (the current weather) when I ask for multiple forecasts (what's the weather for tomorrow and Saturday -> the weather tomorrow is... Currently it is... There is a weekend advisory in effect...The weather Saturday is... Currently it is... There is a wind advisory...) - let me specify what information I want when I ask for the weather; it should be trivial to get the wind speed, UV index, it whatever other item I want every time I ask for current weather or forecast, not just if it's going to be unusual.

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