OK Google: How About OK Jarvis, OK Android, Or Even OK Barry

Android Community noticed that some other phrases outside of “OK Google” trigger the voice search on the latest Android operating system, KitKat. So I tested this on my Nexus 5 and discovered that OK Google has alternatives. I tested the following phrases that seemed to work: OK Glass OK Jarvis OK Android OK Barry Now, […]

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okay-google-androidAndroid Community noticed that some other phrases outside of “OK Google” trigger the voice search on the latest Android operating system, KitKat.

So I tested this on my Nexus 5 and discovered that OK Google has alternatives. I tested the following phrases that seemed to work:

  • OK Glass
  • OK Jarvis
  • OK Android
  • OK Barry

Now, I am not sure if Google confused Barry with Google and I tested it several times afterwards and sometimes it activates voice search and sometimes not.

Here is a video of this in action:

I suppose Google’s voice search trigger is pretty flexible when matching on “OK Google”.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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