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>Having to say "OK, Google" instead of just "Google" (or "Alexa") is a deal-breaker.

LOL. That is one of the reasons I hated Alexa. She turned on when a podcast said something about her, the TV ad came on, we talked about our friend Alexa and when anything sounded kinda like Alexa. Ended up changing it to Echo, which worked a bit better. Amazon was out of the question when order to much from there and so common conversation have Amazon in them.

I enjoy Googles way more and no one I know still uses "OK, Google" its much simpler and rolls off the tongue to say "Hey, Google!". First world problems after all.

>Google's products don't feel like they are designed by humans.

And Amazons does? Over half of the stuff I said to Alexa comes back as "I don't know how to help with that" even simple facts. Alexa seems to be very limited in researching and answering. While google has there powerful search engine. Also with google I can build shortcuts for even the most advanced, long winded commands and wrap it into "Hey google, protocol seven" or whatever I want.

[walshemj]

earlier this you I was on a skype conference from home with a colleague called Alex and a client.

At one point the conversation triggered alexa and i had to apologise and quickly pull the plug

[eecks]

The word Google isn't as nice to say as Alexa. I don't have the problems you seem to have with Alexa. It works perfectly.

[pavel_lishin]

I wonder if your feelings are related to the Bouba/Kiki effect.

[eecks]

Just googled what that is. It could be!