I’m about to try some custom wake words, I can think of these so far:

  • Hey Assistant
  • Hey GlaDOS
  • Hey Skynet
  • Hey Tardis
  • R2-D2
  • CPU
  • Computer
  • Operator

I’ll use them for a while and see which one I like best.

What wake word are you using? Do you have some other cool ideas?

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I don’t use any home assistant technology but I feel like yelling “Hail Satan!” into an empty room and getting a response would be fun

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Yeah, but you should use something that you don’t use in every day life ;P

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As a Satanist you have my vote!

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This is exactly what I was looking for thanks. I’m not migrating to HA voice just yet, but when I do, you can be damn sure that “Hail Satan” will be the wake word.

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“Satan, Play Emperor on the living room stereo”

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When I had a Moto X way back when, I used “Would you kindly” as the wake word.

I miss that phone, and specifically the custom wake word functionality. Well, that and the wooden back.

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I miss the Moto X. I’ve been known to nerdily use “prepare for voice command”.

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How about “I say”…makes all your commands sound very posh.

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Or very Foghorn Leghorn.

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‘Eeeey!’ or ‘Alter’ - ‘Alter, mach mal licht an’

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thinkimg about this again - maybe something passive-aggressive would be nice.

‘someone should turn the lights on’ ‘maybe someone could start the vacuum cleaner’

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