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		function_seven on June 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Echo Released It seems to be the norm. "Hey Siri" is three syllables. "OK Google" is four. "Hey Cortana" is also four. I bet they really can't find a 2-syllable word that doesn't false positive all over the place. At least not with either the quality of speech recognition or the wide range of accents that need to be understood.

smackfu on June 23, 2015 | [–]

And I personally found "Hey Siri" to be triggering enough false positives that I couldn't leave that feature on.

function_seven on June 23, 2015 | | [–]

Yeah, same here. It's closer to other phonemes, whereas "Alexa" sounds like fewer things.

HelloMcFly on June 23, 2015 | [–]

"Xbox Select" on the Xbox One as well.

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