Google Assistant without “Hey Google”, this is how it will work
Google will soon make it possible to assign tasks to the Google Assistant without having to arouse its attention with the “Hey Google” statement. That may soon work for a specific set of commands, which has been discovered in the code of the Google Assistant.
Quick Google Assistant commands
It was already known that we might soon be able to stop yelling “Hey Google” all the time before we tell the Assistant. Soon we’ll just start talking, and Google itself will know we’re talking to him or her. It also becomes more concrete, because 9To5Google has already discovered the feature in the code of the Google Assistant. The project is called ‘Guacamole’ at Google, only the function is no longer called ‘Voice shortcuts’, but ‘Quick phrases’.
In the screenshots we see that Google uses code words to hide the functioning of the function as best as possible. Hence the strange words. However, we can deduce that you can choose from a specific list of commands for which you can omit “Hey Google”. All of these actions require you to add the Quick phrase so that Assistant recognizes them as well. Of course you should only add sentences that you do not just use for other things in everyday life. Otherwise you will soon be saddled with a very confused smart speaker.
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Quick phrases are used for this
All the Quick Phrases you can use are divided into categories, and there are Quick Phrases for many different purposes:
- Set alarms
- Broadcasting throughout the house with your smart speaker
- Answer phone calls
- Asking the time
- Ask for the weather forecast
- Control lights
- Control media and volume
- Set timers
- Making family notes
It is expected that Quick phrases will work on smartphones, as well as on smart speakers and smart displays. However, there is still a lot of uncertainty. It is not yet known whether this feature will actually be rolled out and when that will be the case.
Furthermore, it is of course still the question whether it will immediately work in Dutch. Presumably this will not be the case from the very first moment, precisely because the function is so experimental and strongly linked to language. What do you think? Would you like the Quick phrases as quickly as possible? Let us know in the comments at the bottom of this article.
