Google is tweaking the way that it handles Assistant requests, though it looks as though the feature will be very much opt in.
Since the very beginning, Google Assistant voice commands have been activated with a « hey Google » or « okay Google » line, but that could soon be changing for a select number of instructions, based on code in the latest version of the Google app for Android. According to some digging done by Android Police and 9to5Google, a new feature is on the way called voice shortcuts, which will let you skip the « hey Google » part of the command in certain situations – making it faster and more convenient to use voice control. This doesn’t mean that Google Assistant will start listening to everything you say.
