If you already love Google Assistant, your idyll will probably reach even higher heights once you get the new feature called Quick Phrases. It is, in fact, a decidedly smart function that will make using the assistant even more pleasant: once enabled, it puts Google Assistant on standby every time you receive a phone call or activate an alarm and, if not should you be able to reach the phone at that moment, just say Answer or Reject or Abort or Postpone to interact with the device.
In practice, the Quick Phrases feature can be considered a smart solution to automatically activate the assistant on specific occasions when it is likely that the user will want to interact with their smartphone and eliminate the need to use the Hey Google activation command.
Once implemented, the Quick Phrases feature can be enabled in the Google Assistant settings. When you activate the incoming phone call feature, Google warns that calls may inadvertently connect if someone says answer when you are not actually ready to answer the call, also warning that there is a possibility that the assistant may mistakenly connect the call when he hears something that sounds like the answer.
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After enabling the quick phrases, Google Assistant will remind users that it is possible not to anticipate the command with Hey Google, showing a small tip under the notification for incoming calls and alarms or timers:
This feature has been enabled by the Mountain View giant with the latest beta of Android 12 and version 12.39.17.29 of the Google app. It seems that when the functionality is actually implemented for all users it can be exploited to make the activation command Hey Google unnecessary even on other devices, such as smart speakers.