Discussion: You should be able to set different Assistant wakeup phrases so you can choose whether to wake your watch, phone, tablet, or smart speaker

...or whatever other devices they might add voice to.

It could be totally optional, and/or still behave as it does now if you just say "Okay Google".

Yes, my phone will eventually go "Answering on another device", but that's sometimes annoying because it interrupts what my phone was doing, or I want my phone or watch to answer - for example, wetting a timer on the Home is no good because I can't just glance at my wrist and see it.

The steps to manually invoke Google Assistant on my phone are:

  • Pick up phone

  • Hard press the home button area\lock button

  • Swipe my security pattern (No chance of reaching the fingerprint sensor on the Note 8, nor does it work anyway)

  • Swipe up to show the nav buttons

  • Hold down the home button

Whereas the steps to activate Okay Google are:

  • Just say 'Okay Google'.

I like "Okay Google". It's a good feature. But if I want to use it on my watch, my phone and Home Mini both go off, and then the Home Mini takes over.

Let's add "Okay watch", "Okay Home", and "Okay phone".

Thoughts? How would you implement this? What are the potential problems?



Submitted November 29, 2017 at 08:50AM by FanciestScarf http://ift.tt/2hZr95C http://ift.tt/eA8V8J

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