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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by 2bitencryption on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:22PM (#16854292)
That's nothing compared to "Okay Google".

Try saying that three times fast. Actually, try saying it just once fast.

I always end up spitting out something like "Okaygggeellggglle"

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by ExactoKnight on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:17PM (#16854901)
It's utterly astonishing that Google still has the hubris not to give it a personal name.

People want to believe they're talking to a personal assistant, even if that isn't true, and Google is stupidly stripping them of that.

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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by millstone on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:40AM (#16855518)
I think it’s just a branding thing. Notice how e.g. the app is named “Google Chrome” (but not “Mozilla Firefox”).
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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by ExactoKnight on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:43PM (#16862576)
But in this case it doesn't work. I don't repeat the name "Chrome" 20 times a day like I will for a Google Home. This is a serious f*cking flaw and it actually makes me worry for Google's stock price that they can't see how obvious of a problem this is and/or are too paralyzed to fix it.
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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by PerfectElement on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:49PM (#16854428)
You can say "Hey Google".
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Re:Personalized Hey Siri by ExactoKnight on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:17PM (#16854904)
The "Hey" gets extremely grating after the fifth time in a row.

Amazon has it right on this with Alexa.

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