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Google Assistant iOS Update Lets You Say 'Hey Siri, OK Google' (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the cumbersome-but-funny-work-around dept.

The Google Assistant app on iOS has been updated to allow you to launch it on your iPhone by saying "Hey Siri, OK Google." As TechCrunch notes, you will need to open the app to set up a new Siri Shortcut for the Google Assistant in order for this to work. From the report: As the name suggests, Siri Shortcuts lets you record custom phrases to launch specific apps or features. By default, Google suggests the phrase "OK Google." You can choose something shorter, or "Hey Google," for instance. After setting that up, you can summon Siri and use this custom phrase to launch Google's app. You may need to unlock your iPhone or iPad to let iOS open the app. The Google Assistant app then automatically listens to your query. Again, you need to pause and wait for the app to appear before saying your query.

29 comments

  1. Hey Siri... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...how about you go fuck yourself. And take Google with you.

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    1. Re:Hey Siri... by alvinrod · · Score: 1

      Only if they bring Cortana with them.

  2. I'd also install Cortana if you can do that with by bobstreo · · Score: 2

    IOS.

    Then I'd use the same activation phrase and let them fight it out to see which one wins.

  3. If you're mad at your assistant by wafflemonger · · Score: 2

    The command is Siri Alexa HeyGoogle! Search this right now or I will send you to your room!

  4. underwhelmed by fluffernutter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I find the Google Assistant very under powered. You can have it set a reminder for you, but then you can't go back to that reminder and alter it. You can ask it to dial a number, but then you can't have it enter the PIN if you are calling into a conference number. etc etc

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    1. Re:underwhelmed by GoRK · · Score: 1

      Not going to debate you on the underpowered aspect but you can have it enter DTMF on a call. It's unwieldy as hell but it works. "Hey google press 0"

    2. Re:underwhelmed by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Informative

      Just say something like "what are my reminders?" and then "delete reminder to..." or "change reminder to..."

      Also remember that Google Assistant is more aware of context and the prior conversation than others, so if you set a reminder and then change you mind you can just say "delete that".

      Google Assistant's main strength is that you can talk to it naturally and it gives sensible answers to queries. With Siri you have to be more careful to use the right words. Cortana is somewhere between the two.

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    3. Re:underwhelmed by fluffernutter · · Score: 1

      For me 'hey google' doesn't work after the call starts.

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  5. What an unnatural alphabet soup of shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    NOBODY is going to do this because youâ(TM)ll want to punch your own face just having to utter that stupid ass phrase. Source: I set up the Alexa app with XBox so I could say- âoeAlexa tell Xbox to start Plexâ. I did it exactly one time.

  6. Why not "Hey Siri, ask Google..."? by misnohmer · · Score: 2

    It's only logical.

    1. Re:Why not "Hey Siri, ask Google..."? by Luthair · · Score: 1

      It implies Siri is doing something.

    2. Re:Why not "Hey Siri, ask Google..."? by misnohmer · · Score: 1

      It is. It's launching Google assistant.

  7. hey siri by marcle · · Score: 3, Funny

    hey siri, tell google to go fuck alexa and cortana, and send me the video.

  8. Apple only? by AndyKron · · Score: 1

    Thank God this is only for iOS. And Google did finally find my damn phone!

  9. Saying Hey Siri Hello Google.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... won't make you feel like an idiot. Not at all.

  10. Back to High School by SuperKendall · · Score: 0

    Hey Siri, tell Google that Alexia really like Cortana!

    *giggles*

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  11. We need to go deeper by melted · · Score: 1

    We need to go deeper. Google should implement Alexa integration as well. All voice commands will then start with "Hey Siri, OK Google, Alexa".

    1. Re:We need to go deeper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They all should battle it out quietly behind the scenes, then another AI assistant chooses the best results to deliver to you.

    2. Re:We need to go deeper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Dumb ass

  12. Recursion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hey Siri ok google ask Siri

  13. Super/Sub-sonic queue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Say I have several of these assistants. At the extreme end, let's say I have an Alexa, Google Home, Portal, and an iPhone. I prefer to work through Alexa, but she can't handle everything, like setting an alarm on my phone (or maybe she can. i don't know. i don't own any of these.)

    Why can't I just always ask Alexa for everything, and she would "silently" ask one of the other assistants to, um, assist, when they are the better one to ask? Like, "Alexa, what do my friends think of this restaurant?" She goes beep-boop-beep for a second, asking Google to do a few searches, or checking Facebook for recent recommendations, and then decides that making a new post on Facebook is the best option (actually, it isn't, but whatever) so she asks Portal to make a post on my behalf.

    These assistants are sometimes useful ("Hey Google, my fingers were cut off. Call 911!") but usually are just a gimmick and require too much thinking to be actually helpful.

  14. What about its REAL name? by GlennC · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting until I can have it answer to "Hey Wiretap...."

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  15. Next by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hey Siri, OK google, what's up Alexa, how's it hanging Cordana, and howdy doody to the rest of 'ya.

  16. Does anyone... by The123king · · Score: 2

    Does anyone even use the goddamn voice assistants?

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    1. Re:Does anyone... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The NSA and marketers, to listen in on other people's conversations.

  17. Lets You Say 'Hey Siri, OK Google' ?? by swell · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, I am *already* capable of saying that.
    I'm pretty sure that I've been able to say that since I was 4 years old.
    And saying 'Hey Siri, OK Google' then would have been just as useful as saying it now.

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  18. Hey Siri, OK Google by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1

    Hey Siri, OK Google, Expialidocious.

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