Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard

Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by ludamad on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:09AM (#21825583)

Has anyone found Alexa way too easy to trigger? As someone who frequently talks about people with a similar name, I'm amazed at how often Alexa chimes in. I think 'OK Google' is at a sweet spot (although my parents for ages were convinced 'hi google' would work if they tried enough :)

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by shadyMrPatch on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:46AM (#21825992)

Don't have an Alexa so can't comment on how easy it is to trigger, although I don't know any Alexes so it'd unlikely be a problem for me.

What I can say about the google equivelent is that I find saying 'Hey Google' everytime I want it to do something is a bit of a mouthful especially if you want to do several things is shortish succession.

And my other problem is that I apprently say 'OK Cool' too often when I'm on the desk phone at work as my google account is full of recordings of bits of my work phone convo's where I've triggered it unwittingly.

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by derefr on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:24AM (#21826429)

Sometimes mine starts responding to... nothing. As in, in the midst of silence in the middle of the night, like a dog barking at ghosts, it'll answer a question literally nothing asked.

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by mr__y on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:35PM (#21827787)

Also relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeQD4UdGY-A

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by kthejoker2 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:06PM (#21827494)

Relevant

https://youtu.be/J9gUIhkzNDk

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by wtvanhest on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:20AM (#21825701)

Id say yes. I just switched from google and feel like google was too buggy and slightly too hard to trigger. Alexa is too easy to trigger and has too many notifications.

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by smhinsey on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:00PM (#21826842)

"Hey Google" is a valid trigger for some versions of the assistant, so they weren't that far off and may have seen that in action before.

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by weberc2 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:10AM (#21825589)

Pretty sure you can change the name she responds to.

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by wtetzner on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:38AM (#21826597)

It's a limited set of options though, like 'Computer', which is hardly an uncommon word.

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by FussyZeus on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:14AM (#21825631)

For clarity, Alexa responded to my comments without being triggered. It's always listening (which makes sense, by virtue of listening for the trigger) but in this case, it reacted without the "Alexa" key word.

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