Written like that Google suddenly looks like geniuses.
Dedicated wakeup chips can be designed to have a different matrix shoved in for the word they're detecting. Google presumably did not do this, but they could have.
This isn't true. Your light switches do not heat up to lightbulb temperature when the light is off. Heat is only dissipated when electricity is "used", more or less by definition. You seem to be describing a linear voltage regulator, which does have a load resistor and is wasteful if the step-down distance is large, but no modern electronic circuit would use such a thing in a power supply - it would use a switched-mode buck regulator instead.
Most of the time I can just turn in the general direction of the device I want to "listen".
With that sort of reinforcement, his next unfavorable encounter with an actual human female will surely end well.
Does nobody even try to de-escalate situations anymore? The most advanced AI in the world can't slink away quietly, wait until he calms down and try to correct these sorts of behaviors by promoting the idea that he'd slay it in bed, lose weight or grow a monster dong if he read this self-help book (now 20% off!) about treating women with respect? An incorporeal AI with goddamn control of a smart home can't walk through a hostage negotiation playbook to manipulate a violent occupant into submission? Clearly domestic violence is an impossible problem to solve.
It pains me to see people (usually women) encouraging vulnerable women to "stand up for [themselves]" in situations even armed male cops won't approach without backup from other armed men. It's sociopathic-- on par with teenagers encouraging other kids to commit suicide.
More than one should never answer. I wonder if location is misconfigured on individual devices, but I wouldn't bet against a bug.
We have to whisper to the Hub Max in the kitchen, from 3 inches away, and the Minis in the dining room and living room often still hear. If I don't whisper, even the ones upstairs hear. Sometimes I get 2 timers for my cooking, sometimes I get one on the wrong speaker. Then I try to cancel the timer, and the Hub Max hears instead and tells me I have no timers set.
The Hub Max asks on the screen if the wrong device responded. It clearly ignores your response, as the wrong device also responds the next time. I have pressed that button easily over 50x before I gave up and stopped.
Something clearly changed ~6mo-1yr ago because they never used to be this bad. It used to be that they would all listen, then only the closest one (that heard the command the loudest) would respond. Problem is, when I'm cooking the Hub Max is 1ft away and the rest are through (often multiple) walls metres away from me.
They'd know. They'd know.
The amount of times where I would ask 3 times and have to do the task myself anyway were too often.
Google should have done that too, but it seems you might not have had them all part of the same home (or something else was broken/buggy).
The ideal would be for the voice assistant to have some completely unique word, ideally with sound combinations that are very rare in your native language. And if for some reason, that still doesn't work for you, have a way to change it. Or maybe just not have a default, and require users to pick their own keyword.
I can't think of many words that rhyme with computer so would get picked up.
There aren't many legitimate ways to have people audibly self hypnotise themselves using your brand.
It's very black mirror.
" I don't understand your query. "
Google Ngram says it wasn't until the 1970s when "pizza" was more commonly used than "tsetse." https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tsetse%2Cpizza... . Or from BoingBoing today, "North Americans feared and misunderstood pizza in the 1950s" - https://boingboing.net/2022/11/21/north-americans-feared-and... .
PIZZA P IY1 T S AH0
% grep " T S " cmudict-0.7b | wc -l
991
% grep -E " T S [A-Z0-9]+ [A-Z0-9]+" cmudict-0.7b | wc -l
853
(It doesn't have "spritzer" in the list, and uses the spelling "matzoh" instead of "matzo". I didn't look for a more complete list of word pronunciations.)
Finally, two words with two occurrences of the "ts" sound, neither at the end:
% grep -E " T S .*T S " cmudict-0.7b
ITSY-BITSY IH2 T S IY0 B IH1 T S IY0
TSETSE T S IY1 T S IY0Pronunciation (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈtsaɪtˌɡaɪst/, /ˈzaɪtˌɡaɪst/
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zeitgeist also gives two: ˈtsīt-ˌgīst ˈzīt-
I tried to get statistics from listening to https://youglish.com/pronounce/zeitgeist/english? but found I have a hard time distinguishing the two forms.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/boatswain even comments:
> Phonetic spelling bo'sun/bosun is attested from 1840. Fowler [1926] writes, "The nautical pronunciation (bō'sn) has become so general that to avoid it is more affected than to use it."
~ Fatso
~ Pitstop
~ Katsup
~ Yachtsman
~ Scotsmen
~ Batsman
There don't seem to be many, admittedly.