While reading the latest news, I muttered “Okay boomer” at some of the latest unspecified idiocy on the news.
My Google speaker responded, “I’m sorry I don’t understand that.”
Seems about right.
Well, it seemed pretty mundane and pointless to me.
Funny!
I was singing something while looking at news feed. My Google said, “looking that up for you”
Anything I type in the search bar on Amazon always gets me a “looking in the stock room” message.
Hell, my wife sneezed one time and activated** ALexA!!**
Just last Tuesday, I was at a tutorial evening and, as I was speaking up about something or other, my watch suddenly announced, quite loudly, “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand that.”
Fair took the wind out of my sails…
I listen to audiobooks while I drive, and it seems like every trip, the phone mistakes something for “okay Google” that sounds nothing like it at all. Then I have to fiddle with my phone while driving to get back to the audiobook. I thought I turned the speech recognition off entirely, because I will never use it on purpose, but I guess it turned itself back on again.
My biggest problem lately is that my digital assistants are giving me the silent treatment. I finally figured it out yesterday. I suffer from Sirilexia, which I invented. It’s where you keep calling your Apple assistant Alexa and your Amazon assistant Siri. You get silence. You don’t even get a “Are you talking to me?”. I know, it’s a first world problem, but I seem to be always using the wrong name with the wrong device.
Happens all the time on my iMac and Siri. I finally turned off Siri.
I’d be watching a TV show and suddenly Siri would say “I don’t understand the question.” I’d dismiss Siri by saying “Goodbye.” 20 minutes later, “I don’t understand the question.”
Better than making the same mistake with your various wives and girlfriends, I suppose. They’d give you the silent treatment too, or worse.
Our Garmin GPS unit aka Rita can be voice operated by shouting VOICE COMMAND in her direction. Sometimes MrsRico and I are cruising along discussing food or sex or nothing - and Rita slips into VOICE COMMAND mode. Curious. Rita has only taken us on back alleys a few times so I’m not sure if she’s a perv. How can voice assistants’ deviousness be judged?