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Google Home Now Recognizes Specific Users' Voices, Gains Support For Multiple Accounts (phonedog.com)
Google has issued a long-awaited feature for Google Home: support for multiple users. In an update rolling out today, up to six people will be able to connect their Google account to a Google Home, and the unit will try to distinguish each person's voice from the other users connected to the device. Therefore, each person will be able to get access to their schedule, playlists, and more. PhoneDog reports: Support for multiple users is rolling out in the U.S. now and will be available in the U.K. in the coming months. To know if the feature is available to you, launch the Google Home app and look for a card that says "Multi-user is available." You can also click the icon in the upper right corner, find your Google Home, and select "Link your account." From there, you'll train the Google Assistant to recognize your voice so that it knows it's you when you're talking and not the other people with connected accounts. You'll say "Ok Google" and "Hey Google" twice each.
Is the "Burger King" user pre-installed?
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Yay!
Does anyone stop to think that Google could be a front for the NSA or other government entities and that many of these Google
projects could involve ulterior motives ?
Not that a government capable of things such as the Tuskegee Study or MK-Ultra or the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
could possibly have evil intent, of course.
Just saying, Google.
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This discriminates against identical twins. Lawsuit pending. This is not a serious post.
The home is a place where brothers and sisters with really similar voices can live together. Since some parents have trouble distinguishing their children's voices, Google will have a hard time there.
What happens if your kid is a was-female and starts taking testosterone as part of their gender-reassignment process, resulting in a voice change. Do they lose all their searches?
Google is kicking ass and taking names. Recognizing voices on the fly while doing speech recognition is no small accomplishment. But whoever solves the cocktail party problem (the ability to focus on just one voice while many people are talking at the same time) will take the cake.
The LAST thing I want to say when walking into my home, bedroom, kitchen, garage etc is Ok/hey Google.
I mean what the heck man.
Stop being facetious with us for click revenue relevance in our homes.
Does it work if your voice changes due to having a cold? Does it work if you whisper? If you yell? Just curious.
:|
Sure I could probably google these questions but the tech is too new and does anyone else feel like its harder and harder to get the right info from google nowadays? For example I don't want results from 2011 at the top of the list when i'm searching for new tech stuff!! Eh I'm probably just bad at googling. Theres probably a shitload of google search commands that I dont know about. meh
please give me , your name , phone number signature, retina , voice and social insurance number ......
oh and fart in this so we can verify dna
The faggot who listens to wiretaps and bugs is done, now even bullshit countries like Zimbabwe can afford to fire his ass.
to be given to the Police, FBI and the NAS or any other agency, when they come calling to Google? No thanks.
I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that.
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I'm surprised this is a new feature for the Home. Although it's not fool proof. It recognizes my older son as me most of the time.
If the Google Home doesn't identify a command as coming from any of the voices it "knows", does it ignore the input or does it follow the command anyway?
It should do the former, but I'm betting on the latter.
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Hello Google/Amazon, can you tell me when my neighbour will be home??
Do they have a dog??
Do they have a home security system??
Have they bought anything expensive this year???
Did they purchase a safe in the last 5 years???
Thank you google/Amazon, you have been of great service.
The Echo has a code you use for different accounts and the Google Home (GH) just uses your voice.
The Echo is really more of a computer interface and has you do the work and the GH is intelligent and far more human in how it does things.
Really love the voice authentication with the GH as it makes so many use cases now possible.
For example, in our home I prefer some of my kids to be unable to lower the AC thermostat. Now I can have some able to when they ask the GH in the kitchen and others are not able to. But no awkward passcodes, etc.
The other is I am fine with guest able to do some things and then others I only want "privileged" users to be able to do. With the Echo it was trivial for people to learn the passcode. Now with the GH I say it and it will work and they say it and it will not.
But everything is like this with the GH versus the Echo. A huge one is the Echo has commands you memorize and the GH you just talk to it like a human.
So a little kid can use the GH as well as a grandma. Kind of like Google Search. Same text box for a 5 year old as a rocket scientist as well as grandma. Exactly how technology should be. Why on earth should we still have to use passcodes?
Amazon needs to replace the foundation of the Echo to have intelligence if they want to be competitive.
"Yes, I voluntarily installed the secret police monitoring equipement, because it saved me having to do a little work when shopping on-line!"
"I love knowing Google and our Federal Government and Agency overlords are able to listen in to my every word! don't you trust the Government?"