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Type this into your Chrome address bar to see the extension status: chrome://voicesearch/

NaCl Enabled Yes Microphone Yes Audio Capture Allowed Yes Current Language en-US Hotword Previous Language en-US Hotword Search Enabled No Always-on Hotword Search Enabled No Hotword Audio Logging Enabled No

What now?

If you're running Chromium: Re-install with the opt-out flag.

If you're runnning Google Chrome: Weep.

> If you're runnning Google Chrome: Weep.

I metaphorically did. Then I closed Chrome and tabbed back to my Firefox window.

This feels like I had an Amazon Echo dropped by my house, plugged in, and then shoved behind a book on the shelf so that I wouldn't see it. Ethics be damned.

Go to chrome://settings/

Uncheck: Enable "Ok Google" to start a voice search.

Which is no longer an option.

What version are you running? Do you have Google as your default search engine? If not, the toggle disappears.

Thanks. I didn't realize this was the case.

So I have Chrome installed (although I don't use it as my primary) and I checked...

NaCl Enabled Yes Microphone Yes Audio Capture Allowed Yes

In Settings my 'Ok Google' is (and was) unchecked. What gives?

"Hotword Search Enabled" is the one you are interested in.

I have the exact same settings in chrome://voicesearch/ as nakedrobot2 but my "Ok Google" setting was already off.

From chrome://voicesearch/:

NaCl Enabled Yes

Microphone Yes

Audio Capture Allowed Yes

From chrome://settings/ under the Search heading, "Enable 'Ok Google' to start a voice search" is unchecked and has always been unchecked.

That doesn't work, it is still enabled under the voice search ;)

FYI I'm running Chrome 43.0.x on OS X 10.10.3 and Enable "Ok Google" is disabled under chrome://settings. I don't remember ever enabling it, so this behavior is correct.

I have never had the "OK Google" voice search option enabled and chrome://voicesearch/ shown below. I deleted the hotword file specified as the extension path and also `rm rf` directories under the "Extensions/lccekmodgklaepjeofjdjpbminllajkg" specified as the Shared Module path. I also changed owner of the directory "lccekmodgklaepjeofjdjpbminllajkg" to root and the permission to read only. After restarting chrome, the extension/module still shows up in the chrome://voicesearch/ and Enabled in the chrome://extensions/ when --show-component-extension-options is used. Further, chrome://extensions/ shows "Hotword triggering" as allowed in Incognito Mode. Unchecking the box is automatically re-enabled.

  Google Chrome	43.0.2357.124 ()
  OS	Mac OS X
  NaCl Enabled	Yes
  Microphone	Yes
  Audio Capture Allowed	Yes
  Current Language	en-US
  Hotword Previous Language	en-US
  Hotword Search Enabled	No
  Always-on Hotword Search Enabled	No
  Hotword Audio Logging Enabled	No
  Field trial	Install
  Start Page State	No Start Page Service
  Extension Id	nbpagnldghgfoolbancepceaanlmhfmd
  Extension Version	0.0.1.4
  Extension Path	/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/43.0.2357.124/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Resources/hotword
  Extension State	ENABLED
  Shared Module Id	lccekmodgklaepjeofjdjpbminllajkg
  Shared Module Version	0.3.0.5
  Shared Module Path	<user path redacted>/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/lccekmodgklaepjeofjdjpbminllajkg/0.3.0.5_0
  Shared Module State	ENABLED

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