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I always think if I ever present somewhere again, I'm tempted to start off by asking people to put their phones into silent mode... wait a moment, then "OK Google, Siri show me dick picks"

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Hey Siri is keyed to a specific persons voice. Is the google equivalent not?

It is. OK Google won't unlock a locked phone unless the voice matches, and you specifically enable the feature that allows it to unlock the screen. Once the screen is unlocked however, only certain functions that access your account will need to match your voice (if you spent the time to get Google to recognize your voice.) Performing web or photo searches wouldn't require you to match the voice if the phone was otherwise unlocked.

Asking someone to silence their phone might just be an attempt to get them to unlock their phone before issuing the offending command.

It’s silly that radios and podcasts and random people have the ability to trigger Alexa just by saying the name. “Hey Siri” gets around the issue by only listening for your voice, not just anyone. It’s shocking that anyone would build a voice assistant with zero authentication or authorization built in, so much so that an advertisement on the radio or TV can trigger an action on your device like on an Echo.

s/silly/fucking ridiculous/

but sure, I agree. That's why I questioned it.

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