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Or was it after? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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."

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    When did they enable that?!?! I tried to change it to "computer" years ago since I wanted to live in a Star Trek fantasy, but I couldn't.

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    • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wasn't it just "computer" ?

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  • [–] [S] 39 points 2 years 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.

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    • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Nobody remembers poor Cortana :(

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nobody used that piece of crap.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

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    • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    By the mid 2300s and TNG they had relearned that ideal wake-words are 3 syllables.

    Com-put-er
    A-Lex-A
    Hey Goo-Gle
    Hey Jar-Vis
    Hey My-croft
    etc

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years 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!

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    • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Computer says no!

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    https://youtu.be/uyV0IVItlM4

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    "Ah... quaint."

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    OK computer

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That can work with Alexa; there's a selection of different wakewords.

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