Help How to stop Google randomly offering suggestions

Ozhatch · Feb 5, 2018

My Samsung S5 sits on my desk while I work. Randomly, without prompting from me, I hear a female voice offering suggestions based on what I might have said in a conversation on my landline, or to another person in my office. At the same time, my phone screen shows the words I used.
Can someone please advise me as to how to disable this feature? Apart from it being intensely annoying, I'm concerned about what my phone is transmitting *without* my knowledge.
Thanks in advance.

Hadron · Feb 5, 2018

Google should only respond if it hears the "ok Google" hotphrase (and in principle shouldn't be parsing or transmitting anything until it recognises that). Is anyone else using that phrase near you when this happens? You can turn it off via the settings in the Google app (either completely or turn off voice recognition), and from playing with mine (where I normally keep the voice recognition completely off) it seems that if I set voice response on but voice unlock off it wakes when it hears that phrase but does not do anything else unless I unlock the screen.

That assumes it is Google Assistant and not some other voice assistant or voice search app you may have installed (the subject says Google, but the post doesn't identify the app, and most of these things use female voices).

ianrquinn · Feb 5, 2018

Hadron said:
Google should only respond if it hears the 'ok Google' hotphrase (and in principle shouldn't be parsing or transmitting anything until it recognises that). Is anyone else using that phrase near you when this happens? You can turn it off via the settings in the Google app (either completely or turn off voice recognition), and from playing with mine (where I normally keep the voice recognition completely off) it seems that if I set voice response on but voice unlock off it wakes when it hears that phrase but does not do anything else unless I unlock the screen.

That assumes it is Google Assistant and not some other voice assistant or voice search app you may have installed (the subject says Google, but the post doesn't identify the app, and most of these things use female voices).

lunatic59 · Feb 5, 2018

Are you sure it's Google and not Bixby?

Hadron · Feb 6, 2018

Have they inflicted Bixby on the S5? I've not kept up with the roll out of that.

Ozhatch · Feb 6, 2018

Hadron said:
Google should only respond if it hears the "ok Google" hotphrase (and in principle shouldn't be parsing or transmitting anything until it recognises that). Is anyone else using that phrase near you when this happens? You can turn it off via the settings in the Google app (either completely or turn off voice recognition), and from playing with mine (where I normally keep the voice recognition completely off) it seems that if I set voice response on but voice unlock off it wakes when it hears that phrase but does not do anything else unless I unlock the screen.

That assumes it is Google Assistant and not some other voice assistant or voice search app you may have installed (the subject says Google, but the post doesn't identify the app, and most of these things use female voices).

Thanks, Hadron. I've adjusted settings in Google and S-Voice. Hopefully that should stop the lady!

lunatic59 · Feb 6, 2018

Doh! ... I saw S5 and my mind when right to S8.

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