[morganvachon]

While I'm happy this was a (reasonably) positive outcome, my concern is that a family is watching an action movie or police procedural, a character on TV says "call 911" or "call the cops!", and suddenly a SWAT team is breaking down the door and pointing guns at everyone, maybe even shooting the family dog who rightfully barks at the intruders.

[dpkonofa]

Yeah... I'm curious what part of the conversation triggered the Google Home action because, typically, there's a trigger word/phrase or something that has to be used. If the trigger phrase is the standard "OK Google" or something along those lines, then I wonder what was said before "Call the sheriff" that was incorrectly interpreted as "OK Google" (or whatever the actual phrase was).

[morganvachon]

It's my understanding that you can also say "Hey Google" to issue commands, and it's possible in this case that in the heated discussion the device heard "Hey did you..." as "Hey Google". I've activated my iPhone's Siri assistant before by saying "Hey Sir" to a boss who walked into my office.