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Making speech more natural
Homey is not (always) listening very well, this is allready discussed in another discussion topic.
So at my home we all have to call Homey many times to get him to understand what we would like.
It would me more natural if homey starts listening a few seconds aften every action he has done. So you could ask him again if he did not hear it right the first time, but also to give him an extra action to do.
For example, now at my home it goes like this:
1,2)Ok homey...
(not understood)
3,4,5)Ok homey...
(he did understood and waits for my command)
3a,4a,5a)televisie aan
(not understood)
7)Ok homey...
(he did understood)
7a)televisie aan
(he understood and does it)
Now sometime you want to tel something extra such as "mute the volume" or "turn the lights on".
It is not natural and would be nicer if he waits a bit for me saying another command, just like siri does.
For now, especially with the bad hearing of homey it would be nice if we all don't have to call him all the time again with "ok homey"
Another suggestion:
Also would it not be nice if it could react on clapping your hands instead of calling him "ok homey".
So if you clap your hands and the lights go on.
Something like:
clapping twice...homey listens
clap once while he listens... turn lights on
clap twice while he listens... turn lights off
So at my home we all have to call Homey many times to get him to understand what we would like.
It would me more natural if homey starts listening a few seconds aften every action he has done. So you could ask him again if he did not hear it right the first time, but also to give him an extra action to do.
For example, now at my home it goes like this:
1,2)Ok homey...
(not understood)
3,4,5)Ok homey...
(he did understood and waits for my command)
3a,4a,5a)televisie aan
(not understood)
7)Ok homey...
(he did understood)
7a)televisie aan
(he understood and does it)
Now sometime you want to tel something extra such as "mute the volume" or "turn the lights on".
It is not natural and would be nicer if he waits a bit for me saying another command, just like siri does.
For now, especially with the bad hearing of homey it would be nice if we all don't have to call him all the time again with "ok homey"
Another suggestion:
Also would it not be nice if it could react on clapping your hands instead of calling him "ok homey".
So if you clap your hands and the lights go on.
Something like:
clapping twice...homey listens
clap once while he listens... turn lights on
clap twice while he listens... turn lights off
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Comments
Because I think the 'ok homey' is working ok for most people?
Don't think this is a very realistic scenario.
Do you see yourself clapping your hands all the time?
And what lights should it turn on/off then?
Yeah clapping won`t work.
If I recall correctly they sampled several 100 people's voices for the new trigger. If that's not enough, I don't think even more will make a difference.
I think they need to work on the signal processing / noise cancelation / volume control / . . .
but when i am at the dinner table (5 meters away) even the "ok homey" not always work.
If you add those up with the extra times you need to say the command, you hear a lot (too much) "ok homey" at our place.
but my point about the Natural speaking is more about the not having to say "ok homey" again after it mis understood my command.
so if "ok homey... dinner" does not work the first time, i only should have to repeat the second part "dinner" because of my suggestion to listen a few secondes after each command.
the clapping hands is more an extra when it is noisy, so forget about that for now.
For me OK Homey also does not work in 30 % of the time.
I agree, it should just say it didn't understand you (like Google, Alexa, Siri, ... does).
But of course that will only work when it didn't understand you at all. If it just misunderstood you, this will not solve your problem
I keep repeating myself over and over again. I am in distance of 2- 6 mtrs from Homey.
The trigger itself works okayish, the actual command, i.e turning lights on or off in Dutch (am using Hue) most of the times doesn't work. If I then switch over over to Siri, it works most of the times instantly..
So, compared to Siri (with iPad attached to charger) it works 9/10 times...so same experience as @Pils ..
There is another thread allready for that...
I agree that Homey needs to feedback to you once it had not understand something. We don't need to create all kind of rulesets to accomplish this.
If Homey goes retail, this is a first one would expect from the product. Feedback on what has been said to Homey, no total silence..
Have you tried talking to it from less than 1 meter?