Google assistant amusement

 We've finally cracked and put a smart speaker with Google assistant in our sitting and tv area purely so we can play music via Spotify.

Now every couple has something that they like to do together that's a little bit odd - ours is watching non English language cop shows.

So we were peacefully watching Hierro, a Spanish language series produced by Movistar and currently available on SBS on demand (and it's excellent, give it a go).

SBS only ever subtitles foreign  language programmes so of course you get the full force Spanish dialogue, which naturally includes raised voices and Spanish spoken at 250km/h.

Google Assistant of course monitors for someone saying 'OK Google', rather than particular voices meaning it monitors everything going on from us discussing what's for dinner, talking to the cats, and also listening to what's on the TV or the internet radio when we have them on.

And suddenly in the midst of Hierro,  it heard something that made it think someone was talking to it and started complaining loudly that it didn't understand and generally being confused. Telling it to shut up stopped it.

The obvious solution is to turn the microphone off, which given we basically only use it for Spotify, wouldn't be a great loss, but it just shows, they're listening ...