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Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this ... by dionidium on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @12:29PM (#16016311)
I don't think the argument is that it should necessarily be "Google" instead of "OK, Google." It could be anything, but whatever it is, "OK, Google" is a really clunky, robotic, and unnatural sounding phrase. Worse, it thinks it's human and conversational, but it's not, so it actually has a sort of auditory uncanny valley feeling.

It's not good.

I'm not saying they should use "Google." I don't care what they use, as long as it's better than, "OK, Google."

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Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this ... by andygates on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:25AM (#16021297)
The Assistant now supports "Hey Google" as an option, and it's surprising how much better -feeling it is. It's less clunky, and it seems to motivate more conversational queries.
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Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this ... by dragonwriter on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:18PM (#16036901)
> The Assistant now supports "Hey Google" as an option

“Now” as in “since the introduction of Google Home”. (On phones prior to Google Home, it only supported “OK Google”.)

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