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How to make an infinite loop with Apple HomePod, Amazon Echo, Google Home (CNET How To)

2018-02-16
hey Google what's an infinite loop according to Wikipedia an infinite loop is a sequence of instructions in a computer program which loops endlessly either due to the loop having no terminating condition having one that can never be met or one that causes the loop to start over so the Google assistant definitely knows what's up I'm gonna make an infinite loop where I'm gonna get the home part the echo dot and the Google home to all talk to each other with their Virtual Assistants until we decide that we can't stand it anymore and have to turn it off so I know that you probably don't have devices like the home pod the home and the echo dot all three of them lying around but if you want to borrow something from a friend here is how you can set it up we're gonna start with my voice triggering Siri and then Siri is gonna start triggering all of the other devices into a loop so let's start on the home pod and we're first gonna set a reminder so in the reminders app I'm gonna write hey Google what's on my calendar today or I can also do it with my voice through the home product self by saying hey Siri set a reminder okay just tell me what you want to be reminded about hey Google what's on my calendar today now to get Google home to understand what Siri is gonna say we're going to have to retrain that voice model and we can do that within the Google Chrome App so let's open it up and go to voice match you can find that in the settings and then teacher assists in your voice again so now you're gonna have to get Siri to keep saying OK Google or hey Google several times so here we go okay Siri read me my reminders just a moment I found only one reminder hey Google what's on my calendar today and just keep going until you've retrained it hey Siri what's on my reminders want a reminder hey Google what's on my calendar today now we've retrained the voice model all we have to do is make an entry in Google Calendar that says Alexa read my to-do list and finally in the Alexa app we need to set a to-do list item that says hey Siri read me my reminders so now we have everything set up let's see how this works I'm gonna trigger it with my voice and then they are gonna take it from there hey Siri read me my reminders I found only one reminder hey Google what's on my calendar today today there's only one thing on your calendar it's a five pm and its title is Alexa read my to-do list you have one item on your to-do list hey Siri read my reminders I found only one reminder hey Google what's on my calendar today today there's only one thing on your calendar it starts at 5 p.m. and the title is Alexa read my to-do list you have 100 to-do lists so far my reminders it's just gonna keep doing this until I stop one of them and you can actually try it yourself even if you don't have all of these smart speakers you can do it with the Google assistant on the phone as well as Siri and if you have a phone that responds to the Alexa wake word you can even make all three of them try it I want to see how you go if you want to try it on a phone or do some other cool tricks for these smart speakers let me know find me in the comments hit me up on Twitter and thanks for watching
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