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[Tippon]

Richard wrote:

Well Steve today I tried calling the home phone using the freshly redefined home number as ‘Home’. the first try of ‘OK Google call home’ That told me about a television programme (I think) called ‘A placed called home’ set in Australia. ‘OK Google call home’ This second try asked me where I wanted to call, forgetting that I had told it to call home. ‘OK Google call home’ This third try did manage to get a call to the right number.

Just to check, are you saying ‘Ok Google call home’ as one sentence? That may be the problem. The phone, especially if it’s a bit slow, needs a second to recognise the Ok Google command and react, so may only be hearing ‘Ok Google…. home’.

While watching the phone screen, say ‘Ok Google’ and watch. The phone should make a sound, and you’ll see a spinning circle, or the Assistant screen. When that happens, tell the phone to ‘Call Home’ and it should work.

 

Dave Rice wrote:

It recognises my strong Welsh accent Don’t get a Google vacuum cleaner, the number of times I hear South Waleans say Tidy!

Could be worse Dave, we don’t call our friends Mate, or Pal, we call them Butt. Imagine a Google vacuum cleaner overhearing ‘Tidy Butt’… ??

[The Duke]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.domobile.applock

the settings you can turn the phone on to always listening even when locked. However its jot or miss. Some times that works other time it ignores you.

So now ill always when in car touch the figure print sensor. Before my phones had a fingire print sensor, I never bothered locking my phone, and opted to lock ‘sensitive’ apps with App Lock

Since the introduction to figure print reader, sadly I’ve not used it since but a great app to secure apps that access money, or sensitive apps. God know why firefox won’t let me copy and paste anywhere but the top.

 

Back the the ok google phrase, the home speakers, you can speak as quick ad possible. However with phones the slower your phone (rich yours isn’t perticually slow, we have 2 g4 none play phones in the house) the bigger the pause between the trigger word and the action.

That is why I put a comma between the two. Maybe this is more accurate

“Ok Google,…..Call home”

You can gauge the time but watching how which Googe Now fires into life.

I’ll be amazed if its an issue on Googles side, as it gets nothing put praise on how good their voice recognition is. Even for the most strangest of accents. Obviously some to confuse it, but the majority praise how good google is atm.

So the issue is most likely user error, talking too fast, or your phone’s mic has an issue.

Also on a related note google voice regonirion will not work without internet access, wifi or 4g. (3g may work). So this may be your issue, you may be super unlucky and just been in a ‘black spot’ when you was trying it out.

It’s a bit silly tbh and a pain, but it is what it is.

 

 

 

 

[Richard]

Tippon, you may well be right the instructions were rather crap and the need to talk s l o w l y and break things into chunks might be the answer as in ‘OK Google —- Call Home’ as you said.

The problem is that with the old phone none of this was needed, it was just press the button and demand the call; clearly user adjustment is needed to this slower style of trying to work.

Steve, you are right; sometimes the voice bits work really well as in dictating a text, but then they fail and it is a real splat on the floor affair.

Quite early on a frosty, wet, mushy Sunday morning is not the best time to try things; out the dog and bone is curled up in its basket being charged anyway. So developing a new working style will have to wait for now, but I think you two have put your finger on at least the main issues.

The need for internet access in one form or another is fairly clear though not usually for manually typing and sending a text, at home we almost always have texting access but not mobile voice or mobile internet as such. If the mobile’s internet fails when using voice interaction, then I do get a verbal message. At home mobile coverage is rubbish so the phones can only really use data with Wi Fi which in the areas the phones live is quite good. However though voice is very iffy, all of the mobiles can still send and receive texts most if not all of the time, its a quirk of the signalling system.

[Richard]

I made some test calls, finally after five offers of a programme about ‘After 20 years spent in Europe a place to call home’ I achieved a success. After my telling Google what to do with its stupid suggestions (hint it ended up showing Rodney one of the characters from only fools and horses), I found that; Call home was a failure but.. drum roll please; ‘telephone home’ worked first time.

Flushed with success and wanting to stop while I was ahead I stopped. I just hope that next time if I try to call my wife on her mobile I do not get Obama’s wife… or the owner of a local cafe…

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