It should soon be possible to send certain voice commands to the Google Assistant application without starting their sentence with the usual "OK Google", or "Hey Google".
Until then, those two words allowed artificial intelligence to determine that what it was picking up with its microphone was not a user's conversation but indeed an instruction.
The specialists of the 9to5 Google site have thus spotted lines of code announcing the future innovation, reports
Phonandroid
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Last April, these experts discovered a mysterious feature in the source code of Google Assistant.
It was codenamed "Guacamole".
But there was no indication whether the element would be activated by the digital giant.
However, it is still present in the latest version of the Google Assistant code.
The function would thus allow the configuration of certain actions that can be triggered without pronouncing "OK Google".
No deployment date announced
Users of the app will be able to choose which tasks they want to do without the magic formula. Google has specified in the settings page that these operations “will only be accessible to you”. The system will indeed perform a voice analysis to ensure that the order is given by a user authorized to control the assistant. Artificial intelligence will be based in particular on the timbre of the voice.
In addition, the app offers a list of voice commands, nicknamed "Salsas", which will work without the "Ok Google".
These include setting or deactivating an alarm, authorizing or refusing a call, requesting information about the time or weather, turning lights on or off, management of a timer, the programming of a reminder but also the commands necessary for listening to music.
For now, it is not known when Google will deploy this feature to all users.
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