My mom has come up to visit for the week, and I showed her how to talk to Google to turn the lights on and off in my house.
She’s older and not great with technology, and every night I hear her go “Google can you please turn the light off?”
She is fighting cancer, and is too soft spoken for Google to hear her.
I’ve been staying up late, pretending to be asleep, so when Google doesn’t hear her I turn the light off from my app. And every night, she follows the light turning off with “Thank you Google”
I don’t have the heart to tell her Google cant hear her, and every morning she tells me how much she loves my Google lights.
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god bless you
edit…if you believe in this sort of thing…otherwise you are just a good child
You’re a good kid.
If your mum were to want a similar setup in her house but isn’t loud enough to trigger the device and doesn’t want to go through an app, there are some pretty decent Bluetooth microphones out there that might be able to amplify her voice enough.
God bless you and your beautiful mother!
This is one of the most wholesome things I’ve ever read. You’re a good soul. Wishing peace and light to both of you 💛
That’s really beautiful. I hope your mom knows how much you love her
While this might be meaningful to you now, it will be exponentially more meaningful in the future. Hold on to this memory, and keep being “the light” your mom needs.
How is it you can hear her from rooms away but Google can’t? Mine can hear me whisper to it.
This actually warmed my heart. That is love for you. Wishing your mum all the best in her fight against cancer.
The world doesn’t deserve you 🥺❤️ I am sorry to hear about your mom, I used to be an oncology nurse and it is definitely a marathon and not a sprint. I hope she has a good outcome and you two get to have this wholesome relationship for many more years to come.
Have you tried adding her voice to the app? I use Alexa for my lights and not google, but we noticed a difference to its response rate to my husband before versus adding his audio clip to our Alexa profile.
You’re giving your mom the Santa Claus and Easter Bunny experience that she gave you as a child. I think it’s lovely x
😭❤️
I have a soft voice, and I usually have to use my mean voice for voice activation.