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Spotify working on Google Assistant-, Siri-inspired voice activation feature
The highly-reliable reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong reported that Spotify is working on a "Hey Spotify" voice activation feature.
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The highly-reliable reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong reported that Spotify is working on a 'Hey Spotify' voice activation feature. (Shutterstock/kenary820)
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potify is getting ready to board the voice activation train, as reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong, whose track record is impressive, discovered on Thursday that the music streaming platform is working on "Hey Spotify" voice activation.
Spotify is working on “Hey Spotify” voice activation pic.twitter.com/PqZI01WZre
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 4, 2020Strangely enough, though, this feature will only work if the application is already open which seems to be a bit of a technological miss on the company's part.
Nevertheless, the addition introduces an alternate way for users to control their audio content.
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Plus, it could be launched to familiarize its users with such a tool that could be used frequently to activate the long-rumored in-car music player that could finally materialize this year.
As of right now, the tool is just being tested behind the scenes, so it's possible that the final iteration of the feature that makes it to the public could be modified.
