Hey Google! Goodbye & R.I.P.

[NotFromMountainView]

And so the coolness comes to a sad, sad end.

After glorious months of being the coolest kid on my block - shouting Hey Google make a call! or Hey Google set a reminder! and even the glorious Hey Google show me pics of yellow cats! My cool card has been cruelly cancelled. Yes it's true, sometime over the past week or so Google has tightened up the latitude it allows for for voice commands & now I'm forced (yes, forced!) into the nerdy geekishness of calling out the official "Okay Google!" This is a sad state of affairs for those of us who cling desperately to our cool cred.

Don't read this and think I've accepted defeat; at least when I say Okay Google I do it ironically!

 

[DigitalUnderground]

I said "hey Google, make a call" and it worked... It asked me to pick a contact. Idk why yours isn't.

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[NotFromMountainView]

I said "hey Google, make a call" and it worked... It asked me to pick a contact. Idk why yours isn't.

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Hmmm...

So I'm being punished for something...or it hasn't caught up to you yet.

Until last week I only ever said Hey Google, but now in response it just sits there dead, limp, lifeless, taunting me with it's silence. That extra syllable is just killing me.

 

[Skinpipe]

And so the coolness comes to a sad, sad end.

After glorious months of being the coolest kid on my block - shouting Hey Google make a call! or Hey Google set a reminder! and even the glorious Hey Google show me pics of yellow cats! My cool card has been cruelly cancelled. Yes it's true, sometime over the past week or so Google has tightened up the latitude it allows for for voice commands & now I'm forced (yes, forced!) into the nerdy geekishness of calling out the official "Okay Google!" This is a sad state of affairs for those of us who cling desperately to our cool cred.

Don't read this and think I've accepted defeat; at least when I say Okay Google I do it ironically!

open mic+ allows you to set a custom hotword as they like to call it so you can say whatever you like then its on the play store, hope that helps if not ill get my coat.

 

[mymusicathome]

I believe "hey" was removed from the trigger words last update RIP

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[W4Q45]

it still works for me no problem, voice recognitions abit off but good enough

 

[cornelious2]

Its probably just the more it hears you the more it learns your voice and can distinguish

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[Richieboy67]

They could really mess up your cool cred if they wanted too. You could have to say I love you Google, please help me for every command.

That would be funny.

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[zivan56]

For fun, I used to say "tolchay toodle" and it worked. Was looking for a more ridiculous thing to say other than "Ok Google."

 

[tokuzumi]

I can say "ok g"

or I can say "f-u google" in spanish, and google now pops up.

There have been plenty of other things that cause it to come up, even when google was not used.

 

[FuMMoD]

You can be a hipster and say "okay noodles"

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One noob question...you have to have the phone on to use this hotword feature?

MOTO X SLAPPED

 

[FuMMoD]

One noob question...you have to have the phone on to use this hotword feature?

MOTO X SLAPPED

Screen has to be on and on the Google launcher home screen. It's not like the moto x where it works anywhere.

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[bushako]

Hey just tried saying " OK Go" and it recognized it. But then again I don't really use it much so itll probably learn and readjust.

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[howard bamber]

Perhaps his voice has broken!

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[sn0warmy]

What has happened to this forum? What is the point of this thread? My brain hurts...