So yesterday I was watching YouTube TV and on the show a character said "OK Google play..." and my Google Home Hub heard it and started playing music while we were watching the show. I told Google to cancel to stop that request and it stopped the show and turned the TV off. Any idea how to keep this from happening? It was quite annoying lol.
I noticed yesterday during the Launch Night In livestream that everytime someone in screen said "OK Google play... " my devices would light up and listen in as if they were about to respond also. The first time it happened I quickly said "cancel" so I didn't have to deal with it. But the second time I just left it alone and waited for it to respond... it did not.
"Ok Google, play..." was said at least seven more times throughout the live stream. Each time my devices woke up, listened, and promptly ignored them. I am pretty sure Google has employed its voice recognition technology to train all devices to ignore prompts from voices that are widely broadcast. I know the main Assistant server also ignores all TV ads from Google (which deploy the trigger words a lot, obviously)
Unless you're watching a very obscure YouTube video of a review of a Google device with someone saying it that Google hasn't trained the server to ignore, I don't think you should be noticing it happening that much.
Of course, this always makes me wonder.... If Google has trained all of our devices to ignore John Legend's voice when he says "OK Google..." on our TVs ... I wonder how much trouble he has in his own home when he's trying to get his devices to listen to him! 😂😂