Signal · When? · it guesses
Element 55
Tell it: what comes next is for you.
wake word · raise to wake
First known
Opened
1993PlainTalk speech on Apple's AV Macs: you start each spoken command with a keyword such as 'Computer' so the Mac knows it is being spoken to. Apple.
See also: iPhone raise to wake, iOS 10, 2016.
“To help the Mac pay attention to you, you preface every command with a keyword (like Computer in the example above)”
The wake word shipped about two decades before 'Alexa' and 'Hey Siri', and the word was literally 'Computer'.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
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Specimen № 55 — operate freely
Say “Computer,” then what you want, before anyone else speaks.
Fig. 55 — Wake
000 readings · idle
Down the Signal column
- it reactsPPress
- it followsHHold
- it targetsOOpen
- it remembersScSchedule
- it connectsNNotify
- it guessesWWake
- it actsIInterrupt
Read down and Press gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Wake takes.
- wake word
- raise to wake
From the 2021 table
This was a tile of its own. On this table it is a form of Wake, and its old address lands here.
- Ambient InputHostA device or surface that carries the act.