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Google Now Hot Word Recognition doesn't work

I can't seem to get the Google Now hotword recognition working on my S3.
If I am in Google Now, it will work (saying "Google" gets voice commands started), but it doesn't work when I am on my main desktop, or on my lockscreen.
Does anybody know a fix?

¿GotJazz? said:
I can't seem to get the Google Now hotword recognition working on my S3.
If I am in Google Now, it will work (saying "Google" gets voice commands started), but it doesn't work when I am on my main desktop, or on my lockscreen.
Does anybody know a fix?
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Just tried mine it works in both cases not sure how to help figure I would check and report my findings
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MIKEYSAKZ said:
Just tried mine it works in both cases not sure how to help figure I would check and report my findings
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I might be confused, but I thought that the Google hotword ONLY worked while the user is in Google Now. I just tried it by saying Google from my Home screen and nothing happened, but while I was in Google Now, the voice search came up. I, too, would definitely like to find out how to get hotword detection working outside of Google Now.
While we are on this topic, do people prefer having hotword detection enabled or disabled? I am relatively new to the S3's hardware prowess...but when I had the older Samsung Galaxy Nexus, hotword detection drastically slowed down the operation of Google Now. Turning off hotword detection magically fixed Google Now. Thoughts?

Comp625 said:
I might be confused, but I thought that the Google hotword ONLY worked while the user is in Google Now. I just tried it by saying Google from my Home screen and nothing happened, but while I was in Google Now, the voice search came up. I, too, would definitely like to find out how to get hotword detection working outside of Google Now.
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Hi, Comp625 - Actually, *I* might be confused. I just checked, and you are right - The hotword detection only works when the Google Search is active on the screen. I wasn't able to even get that functionality to work, tho, until yesterday. (Note: I had to change my language options all to English (U.S.) instead of just English). I assumed that something was still broken when it would finally work on the Google Search screen, but not on any other screen.
Comp625 said:
While we are on this topic, do people prefer having hotword detection enabled or disabled? I am relatively new to the S3's hardware prowess...but when I had the older Samsung Galaxy Nexus, hotword detection drastically slowed down the operation of Google Now. Turning off hotword detection magically fixed Google Now. Thoughts?
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By "slowed down", what do you mean? It was slower to become active? Slower to show search results? Slower to start recognizing your speech? Slower to finish recognizing your speech?

¿GotJazz? said:
By "slowed down", what do you mean? It was slower to become active? Slower to show search results? Slower to start recognizing your speech? Slower to finish recognizing your speech?
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When pulling up Google Now, it would take at least a few seconds for the cards to show up. After I turned off hotword detection, Google Now loaded up effortlessly.
Again, that was on my old Galaxy Nexus. I'll have to play around with hotword detection on my S3.
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How to use "Ok Google" voice activation.

I've got my Nexus 5, and I can't get the home screen voice activation to work for the life of me.
Any ideas? Is there something that I need to activate?
Edit: Found the solution:
1) Voice search language must be set to English (US)". Doesn't work on "English (UK)". You can leave your system language as "English (UK)", you only need to change the voice search language.
2) "Ok Google" only works in three places: a) the homescreen, b) the Google Now page on the Google Experience Launcher (the extreme left page), c) the Google Now app/search window itself.
3) The phone must be AWAKE and UNLOCKED. Does not work from the lockscreen, even if the phone is set to the "Slide" lock. If the lockscreen is set to "None", the phone wakes to the homescreen immediately, so clearly it works, but is irrelevant.

icedicicle said:
I've got my Nexus 5, and I can't get the home screen voice activation to work for the life of me.
Any ideas? Is there something that I need to activate?
Edit: NVM, found the answer. You need to set the language for voice search to "English (US)". Doesn't work on English (UK).
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Hi icedicicle,
Just to double check, this will wake up the phone even when the screen is off, right?
I just want to confirm the feature as this is what tips the scale in favour of Nexus (against G2) for me.

rokfor2000 said:
Hi icedicicle,
Just to double check, this will wake up the phone even when the screen is off, right?
I just want to confirm the feature as this is what tips the scale in favour of Nexus (against G2) for me.
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Its been reported (poorly) via a number of Tech sites and a Google Employee (on G+) that infact the Nexus 5 is unfortunately NOT touchless in the same way that the Moto X is. "Ok Google" does not wake the device, it can only be used on the Home Screen or within Google Now - can you confirm OP?
All I know is you have to have a NON-Secure Lockscreen or Slide.

elite_gamer04 said:
Its been reported (poorly) via a number of Tech sites and a Google Employee (on G+) that infact the Nexus 5 is unfortunately NOT touchless in the same way that the Moto X is. "Ok Google" does not wake the device, it can only be used on the Home Screen or within Google Now - can you confirm OP?
All I know is you have to have a NON-Secure Lockscreen or Slide.
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You can use it on the lockscreen.

rokfor2000 said:
Hi icedicicle,
Just to double check, this will wake up the phone even when the screen is off, right?
I just want to confirm the feature as this is what tips the scale in favour of Nexus (against G2) for me.
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elite_gamer04 said:
Its been reported (poorly) via a number of Tech sites and a Google Employee (on G+) that infact the Nexus 5 is unfortunately NOT touchless in the same way that the Moto X is. "Ok Google" does not wake the device, it can only be used on the Home Screen or within Google Now - can you confirm OP?
All I know is you have to have a NON-Secure Lockscreen or Slide.
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hotleadsingerguy said:
You can use it on the lockscreen.
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It does NOT work on the lockscreen. I've tried both non-secure "Slide" and secure "Pattern".
It does not wake the phone from sleep either. It only works within Google Now and on the Homescreen after the phone has been waken and unlocked.

icedicicle said:
It does NOT work on the lockscreen. I've tried both non-secure "Slide" and secure "Pattern".
It does not wake the phone from sleep either. It only works within Google Now and on the Homescreen after the phone has been waken and unlocked.
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I can't get it to work at all, even when on the home screen. Is there a setting that i need to enable? I don't have any security setup either.

icedicicle said:
It does NOT work on the lockscreen. I've tried both non-secure "Slide" and secure "Pattern".
It does not wake the phone from sleep either. It only works within Google Now and on the Homescreen after the phone has been waken and unlocked.
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What I was dreading - really hoping this can be hacked :S
alexktz said:
I can't get it to work at all, even when on the home screen. Is there a setting that i need to enable? I don't have any security setup either.
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From what I'm seeing on Reddit/Around the net, you need to ensure your language is set to US (en-US) unlike some people in UK its not working, must set to US locale.

elite_gamer04 said:
What I was dreading - really hoping this can be hacked :S
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Not likely. The Moto X has a dedicated always on low-power core for listening out for the keyword. Doubt the Nexus 5 has the requisite hardware.

icedicicle said:
Not likely. The Moto X has a dedicated always on low-power core for listening out for the keyword. Doubt the Nexus 5 has the requisite hardware.
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Well the Snapdragon 800 APPARENTLY is meant to have 'Snapdragon Voice Activation' which is identical to Moto X 'always listening' - as found here:
http://www.slashgear.com/qualcomm-s...tion-revealed-with-always-on-action-20270300/
Fingers crossed!

elite_gamer04 said:
Well the Snapdragon 800 APPARENTLY is meant to have 'Snapdragon Voice Activation' which is identical to Moto X 'always listening' - as found here:
http://www.slashgear.com/qualcomm-s...tion-revealed-with-always-on-action-20270300/
Fingers crossed!
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yea i have read that the snapdragon 800 has an always listening feature too. maybe google decided to not enable it for moto x to remain appealing? i hope someone will be able to port it over too.

icedicicle said:
I've got my Nexus 5, and I can't get the home screen voice activation to work for the life of me.
Any ideas? Is there something that I need to activate?
Edit: Found the solution:
1) Voice search language must be set to English (US)". Doesn't work on "English (UK)". You can leave your system language as "English (UK)", you only need to change the voice search language.
2) "Ok Google" only works in three places: a) the homescreen, b) the Google Now page on the Google Experience Launcher (the extreme left page), c) the Google Now app/search window itself.
3) The phone must be AWAKE and UNLOCKED. The Nexus 5 does not have the dedicated low-power core for detecting voice commands that the Moto X does.
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well that is silly, prepare for an onslaught of forum posts. maybe this should be stickied at the top for non-US users...
it worked for me too. thanks ice.

I am asking myself when google now will have the full support for other languages than US english.

Lownita said:
I am asking myself when google now will have the full support for other languages than US english.
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Unbelievable they still can't support UK English.
And the voice activation via "Ok, Google" was available from the Google Now screen since 4.1 if you set your voice lang to US English, so this is a real non feature.

Pretty sure the phone having to be screenon and unlocked is a software limitation because just being able to say "OK Google" at the homescreen is not just a 4.4 feature but a Nexus 5 feature. It says on the 4.4 site that this feature won't work on other nexus devices.
So im guessing the hardware capability is there, they just didn't want to copy motox.

sishgupta said:
Pretty sure the phone having to be screenon and unlocked is a software limitation because just being able to say "OK Google" at the homescreen is not just a 4.4 feature but a Nexus 5 feature. It says on the 4.4 site that this feature won't work on other nexus devices.
So im guessing the hardware capability is there, they just didn't want to copy motox.
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as the MotoX isn't available in the UK I sure as hell wish they'd copy it!!
Further to that I wouldn't mind a knock-on feature out the box as per the G2. I know that's what mods / roms and for but still, OTB would be nice.

Ah crap. The thing that excited me more of this new Nexus was the Ok Google thingy but I guess it won't work on Italian language. Shoulda kept the N4 for some things, but oh well

alexktz said:
as the MotoX isn't available in the UK I sure as hell wish they'd copy it!!
Further to that I wouldn't mind a knock-on feature out the box as per the G2. I know that's what mods / roms and for but still, OTB would be nice.
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I'm sure the custom rom devs will work on this. That is the spirit of the nexus after all. Provide the hardware support and the software foundation and let the community build the rest.

Thank you for this!! Was driving me crazy
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So in the US what happens if you have no lock screen will the OK Google work ?

AndreaCristiano said:
So in the US what happens if you have no lock screen will the OK Google work ?
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Apparently there are rumors that with a non-secure lockscreen (no lockscreen) or Slide, you will be able to use it from the Lockscreen too. But the OP has confirmed, or atleast during his tests, haven't been able to get this to work.
Since the Snapdragon 800 apparently has Snapdragon Voice Activation, its my hopes that the Dev/ROM gurus will be able to hack/port over 'waking' the device. It is something I hoped would be available day one as the Moto X is not available in my country either...

Ok Google detection?

Maybe I am missing a setting somewhere or something, but the Google Assistant on my XZP only responds when the screen is on. I have it set to "any time" in the Assistant settings. Is this normal? I'm pretty sure it worked whenever (screen off/locked/charging/etc.) on my last couple of phones. I'd like it to at least work while the phone is charging.
Any ideas?

well yeah I had the same problem, apparently, Google changed the settings of the program, and it was only working while the phone is charging, so whenever u upgrade the application to its latest version you will lose this privilege. my advice and that's what I'm doing is to uninstall the updates from the google app and then give it all the permissions it needs and you will have it to work anytime the phone is charging no matter if the screen is on or off !!
btw my Google app version is 7.2.26.21.arm64

This is something that I absolutely hate about the Google assistant. Google should allow the assistant to be used regardless of the device being locked or charging like you can with Siri and Cortana (on WM). It's so irritating to have to actually turn my screen on to use the Google assistant.
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Jake_09 said:
This is something that I absolutely hate about the Google assistant. Google should allow the assistant to be used regardless of the device being locked or charging like you can with Siri and Cortana (on WM). It's so irritating to have to actually turn my screen on to use the Google assistant.
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Yeah, once the phone is in my hand I don't really need the assistant. I can do it myself...

Heinous said:
Yeah, once the phone is in my hand I don't really need the assistant. I can do it myself...
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Exactly. It's really pointless to have an assistant that requires me to interact with the phone. It's like Google doesn't understand what an assistant is for. I really wish they would also implement what Cortana does in terms of how she handles text messages when connected to Bluetooth devices. I love that she would ask if I want her to read it to me and then after reading it will ask me if I want to dictate a reply and send it.
Honestly, for some of the flak that I've seen Cortana getting lately, she's a much better and much more useful assistant than Google or Sri and she's probably the thing I miss the most from WM10.
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Jake_09 said:
Exactly. It's really pointless to have an assistant that requires me to interact with the phone. It's like Google doesn't understand what an assistant is for.
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It's not sure it's entirely Google's fault. It worked properly on previous android phones that I've owned.

I just noticed that it seems to work now with the Oreo update. My phone now wakes up and responds to "ok, Google" while the screen is off/locked. ?

This is by far the best part of the Oreo update. Google Assistant is at least 800x more useful now that it is actually hands-free.

Doesn't work wih mine. It blinks like I could say somehing, but stays closed. When I unlock it, nothing happens. My old phone then went into the assistant mode.
Which options do i have to set?

Google Assistant / "OK Google" Wake-Up and Unlock

@Puksom had said in another thread that he had OK Google working to wake up the phone, but I've heard from many others that it doesn't.
Hoping anyone running various versions of MIUI Global and/or Chinese can chime in if they have this feature working.
If it works for you, please let me know your build number. I can confirm it doesn't work on the latest Chinese stable, but, since I still have another couple days for bootloader unlock, I can't confirm much else.
Note that by OK Google wake-up, I mean with the screen off, and the phone unplugged.
By unlock, I mean that you set a PIN/Password, and that saying OK Google can bypass this lock screen if your voice matches.
(By the way, a somewhat difficult work-around for people who need this feature but can't get it working...)
You can set up, on the Chinese builds, a voice wake-up for the Chinese assistant.
Although you'll need to pronounce it well, you need to program the wake-up word, Xiao ai, by saying Xiao ai tong xue
Then saying "Xiao ai" can make the phone wake up... from there, you can say "OK google" and access assistant. But of course we all want to access assistant directly.

I have that working I'm on official Chinese rom with Google apps and services installed it works ok

I'm running Global Version (9.5.4), and it doesn't work.
When the screen is off, it's not listening. When the screen is on, on the lock screen, it activates, but it doesn't unlock the phone (there's no Trusted Voice), so you need to enter your PIN/pattern.
Trusted Places is not available either, so there is no way to have the phone unlock automatically except using a Mi Band or some other bluetooth device.
@funziebear What is working for you exactly? OK Google with screen off? Does it also unlock your phone automatically or do you have to enter your pattern/pin as well? I though no version of MIUI supported any of those features, based on what I have been able to dug up.

I'm also on the Global Rom and it does NOT work. As well as not having any face unlock options.
Very disappointing.

I'm on official chinese stable. Installed all Google Apps and gave full permissions and autostart permissions to all Google Apps. Installed Assistant and was even able to activate it properly with wake-up and trusted voice. But it's still not working. There was once a message from within the assistant, that said Xiao Ai is still the default assistant and Google Assistant is not set as default.
It's working with screen on, but not unlocking
It's not working with screen off

funziebear said:
I have that working I'm on official Chinese rom with Google apps and services installed it works ok
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Are you sure? Can you say OK Google with the screen off, and it wakes up?

can you guys please figure this out definitively ? Cuz I'm willing to buy the phone, but i will not buy it if google's assistant isn't able to wake-up the phone. pretty please figure it out.

It currently does not work with the screen off.

SolarisSixth said:
It currently does not work with the screen off.
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within your helm of knowledge do you believe it's going to receive this feature in a near-future update?
Cuz I ran into this EXACT same issue with my Galaxy S7 and saw people with Galaxy S6 and S8 facing the same issue, all of them can wake-up the screen, even the word can be configured to whatever word the user wants as long as it is phonetically pronounceable in the 5 most common languages, but the catch is that it only works with Samsung Voice later renamed to Bixby. And I even tried running both Samsung and Google's assistants simultaneously, it doesn't work, they both compete for the exclusive use of the microphone so the idea of using one to wake-up the screen and the other to execute the command is not practical or viable since the second one will only have access to the microphone-audio-stream after the first one released it. So in the end I deactivated the ****ty Samsung Voice crap and decided to stay with Google's Assistant even though it does not wake-up the phone.
what a barbaric decision this is specially coming from Xiaomi. truly ****ed up

Any updates on this? I haven't tried newer MIUI 10 versions, wondering if they added support.

Google Assistant works
Unlock by face works
MIUI 10 8.8.3 xiaomi.eu

k-vadim7 said:
Google Assistant works
Unlock by face works
MIUI 10 8.8.3 xiaomi.eu
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+1

k-vadim7 said:
Google Assistant works
Unlock by face works
MIUI 10 8.8.3 xiaomi.eu
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But unlocking by Google assistant doesn't work

Flatric said:
But unlocking by Google assistant doesn't work
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I take it nothing's changed with the more recent releases?
I tried the MIUI 10 Global Stable, and still no wake-up by voice.

Question Google Assistant Confirmation Beep

I was able to use accessibility settings on my OG Pixel and Pixel 3 to enable a confirmation beep when Google Assistant has been activated (after I say "OK Google") but I can't seem to find a way to do that on my Pixel 7 Pro. Can anyone help?

You have to enable "switch access" in accessibility settings.

lsirg said:
You have to enable "switch access" in accessibility settings.
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I've done this on my OG Pixel and Pixel 3 but it doesn't seem too be working on my Pixel 7 Pro.

I've done it twice now, first setup, and again after a factory reset. Worked both times. Strange.

lsirg said:
I've done it twice now, first setup, and again after a factory reset. Worked both times. Strange.
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I'm using a Verizon P7 Pro. How about you?

bobo-the-drunk said:
I'm using a Verizon P7 Pro. How about you?
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Unlocked P7 Pro.

Also here it is not working to enable switch access...

In Google Assistant settings through the Google app you go to accessibility and the options are there and working for me. Not sure if they've recently moved or been changed but I've never used whatever switch access is.

Can confirm that you have to have both of the settings enabled in the screenshot above in order to hear a beep. I don't even have voice active enabled.

JakeDHS07 said:
In Google Assistant settings through the Google app you go to accessibility and the options are there and working for me. Not sure if they've recently moved or been changed but I've never used whatever switch access is.
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Can confirm that you have to have both of the settings enabled in the screenshot above in order to hear a beep. I don't even have voice active enabled.
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Nobody's ever mentioned that setting before but I already had that enabled. I get a confirmation beep when I'm using Bluetooth or Android Auto but not when it's just my phone.

I screwed mine up recently. The above settings were set before, and I've gotten a beep since I got it. Post-screwup, I tried accessibility settings to no avail. Things that were changed beforehand (perhaps - new P7P and I've been both tinkering around and busy - plus I sometimes plug in a DAC and use Neutron Player, which is very possessive. So I can't recall when I noticed the lack of a beep precisely within a day's usage).
So, things that might have affected it:
I allowed Google Assistant to access my screen, and I enabled flash screen when it does so.
I upgraded from the December to January patch.
I upgraded, afterwards, with the small Play Store patch.
I enabled... what's it called - verbal shortcuts like "Answer" that don't require "Hey Google" first. <- Given that Google's reason for zapping the beep was to save response time, I'm suspicious of this, but I've changed quite a bit, so further testing is required.
I'll post if I get the beep back.
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It's daft that this is even an issue that can't be solved simply with a toggle. Or better, actually asking Assistant to reply when summoned with a beep or phrase, perhaps "Yes, Sir?" In an era with ChatGPT, we ought to be able to at least choose efficient or chummy. Google knows more about me than most friends, they could at least be friendly about it.
[I'm using an unlocked P7P from Google. I'm on Verizon with an eSIM. I have Assistant set so that it's constantly listening. And I've generally got things set to try out everything no matter how intrusive. Hey - it's the first phone I've actively chosen since my Note 4; I wanted to see what we've been given for all that's been taken away. I'm disappointed at all the features that ought to be helpful to my aged father, but are too difficult to use for someone intelligent that can't learn new things well. I'm also seeing just how vastly intrusive it is while saying, carefully, that it isn't. GrapheneOS may be in my future - perhaps because I simply can (goodbye forever, dedicated Verizon phones).]

Just tried Hey Google and ok Google. Both produced the same result, the Google Assistant pops up without a beep.

schmeggy929 said:
Just tried Hey Google and ok Google. Both produced the same result, the Google Assistant pops up without a beep.
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Yeah mine's been that way for awhile