Tired of saying ‘Hey Google’ and ‘Alexa’? Change it up with these unintentional wake words
Wake your Google speaker by saying “cocaine noodles.” Talk to Siri by saying “Hey Jerry.”
For a while now, I’ve entertained myself by saying “Hey Booboo” instead of “Hey Google” to wake up my Google Home speakers. Now researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the Bochum Max Planck Institute have uncovered more than a thousand other words and phrases that can unintentionally trigger Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and other voice assistants: