• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    18·
    4 months ago

    So fun fact, you can change what Google assistant responds to. For a while I had it set as computer, but it felt too awkward.

    I’m going to find something else other than Hey Google cause that’s dumber

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
      13·
      4 months ago

      I think it would probably be pretty easy to trigger just talking to people too. Stuff like “I’ll check on my computer to see what my email said.”

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemmings.world
        7·
        4 months ago

        I got my first Alexa the moment they added the computer wake word. Using computer as a wake word fucking sucks. When I finally get around to spinning up something open source, I’m gonna try using “Clockmaker” in reference to the SciFi series inspector Dreyfus by Alistair Reynolds

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        “Hey Google” gets triggered all the time on my phone without saying “hey”, and Google is a word that gets used a lot more than “computer” these days.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
          61·
          4 months ago

          Once I took my car in to get serviced and I walked up to the desk to check it in and the lady said, “good morning!” Then I said, “good morning!” Then my phone said, “good morning!”

    • usernamefactory@lemmy.ca
      8·
      4 months ago

      I actually have mine set like that right now! False positives are pretty low for me… except for when I watch Star Trek. Then my device chimes in whenever a character calls for it.

      I’ve been rewatching Discovery, and it’s made me learn that they talked to the computer a whole lot more in season 1… the interruptions seemed to drop off significantly after that.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
        71·
        4 months ago

        Makes me think of how I always used to wonder what would happen if you had The Clapper connected to your TV when The Clapper commercial came on. Would you keep having to clap to turn your TV back on?

        • limelight79@lemm.ee
          2·
          4 months ago

          Really any loud noise could trigger it. I don’t recall TVs really doing it, though. Maybe if the volume was way up, but in general I think they ignored normal levels of sound.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
            1·
            4 months ago

            My curiosity came from the old lady at in bed the end of the commercial who claps her TV off and then just sort of passes out.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
      39·
      4 months ago

      McCOY: Perhaps the professor could use your computer.

      NICHOLS: Please.

      SCOTT: Computer… Computer!

      (McCoy hands him the computer mouse which Scott tries to use as a microphone)

      SCOTT: Ah! Hello computer?

      NICHOLS: Just use the keyboard.

      SCOTT: The keyboard. …How quaint.

      • Piemanding
        2·
        4 months ago

        I wonder how such a big company like Microsoft can fumble major parts of their OS so many times.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Because they literally don’t care. As long as their OS is passable, they will keep the lion’s share of the market. They have more money than most governments, and their headquarters is a giant city, with hundreds of buildings, a shopping mall, a bank, a soccer field, restaurants, hair salons, etc. They would have to do way worse for it to actually impact them. Their code is dozens of years worth of bugs stacked on top of bugs, and they just keep chugging right along, printing money.

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    Back in the 90s Mac OS had voice recognition, complete with a wake word. There were a few default actions, and you could write your own Applescripts to customize things.

    • astrsk@kbin.run
      6·
      4 months ago

      I remember messing with this in the late 90s. You could set the computer to listen to “computer” just like Star Trek. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to do anything more advance than the demo features because of being a dumb kid but it was neat!