Because your voice assistant doesn’t have eons of evolution and the bio cpu we have in our heads. It can’t differentiate meaning using inflection or octaves or implied specificities that humans can simply by ear.
“Okay, <X>” is an unnatural way of initiating communicating with a human. I like the idea of having very seperate ways of addressing a voice assistant. It’s not a human and we shouldn’t be modelling it that way, it’s a tool to be used to make life easier.
Hi @baudneo. Yep, that’s all true. But computing is already capable of and has simulated eons of evolution in some science areas. It won’t be that long before voice interactions are far more capable.
Re “Okay ”, as @Hedda pointed out above, that’s just a way of getting the syllables and distinctiveness in there. But a suitably clear and complex single word would do (eg. “Alexa”). So using “Okay” is convenience, not neccessity.
You say “I like the idea of having very seperate ways of addressing a voice assistant.” I agree. (For me, with Alexa, it’s sometimes blunt and rude! Frustrating system.) So, perhaps it’s really just a matter of time and patience… then we can use whatever we like. Though I guess some standardisation could be useful for visitors - or better still, have the ability to use several wake words, one being a common one.
Anyway, I’m diverging off Hedda’s Topic, so I’ll stop.