An error in the Google Assistant greatly affects Android Auto users: as reported in support forums, the voice commands needed to wake up the assistant do not work. Because of this bug, it is impossible to invoke the assistant to ask him to call a person or read messages; which requires you to manually interact with Android Auto.
One of the great advantages of having a smartphone in the car, and that the two understand each other perfectly, is that we can control different phone actions without taking our eyes off the road. For this we have the voice, an ally to which personal assistants have given wings. For example, Android Auto allows you to call a person by simply saying “Ok Google: call so and so”. Lo and behold, the communication jumps over the loudspeakers. If it works, of course.
“Ok, Google” not working for Android 13 users
With an update to Android 13 affecting a good number of users, they encounter an issue when connecting the phone to the car via Android Auto: the system does not recognize the Google Assistant activation command; It is therefore not possible to use the functions of the system without touching the screen or the controls of the vehicle.
The failure is quite widespread according to the Android Auto support forums, there are also notable community complaints on Reddit. We didn’t encounter any problems. having Android 13 on the mobile does not necessarily lead to the loss of voice commands. Even so, it is convenient to check the “Ok, Google” of the car before it is needed, better to be sure whether it works or not.
According to affected users, the car does not respond to “Ok, Google” when the mobile has recently been updated to Android 13. It’s also possible that the command is recognized without Google Assistant finally responding: the vehicle’s screen may feint to deploy the microphone and then return to the running application.
It seems that the voice commands issue does not affect users who can use Coolwalk on their Android Auto. And there is no viable solution to the problem other than to wait for Google to update the software fixing the bug; in addition to click on the microphone icon or activate the assistant from the car controls (if you have this button). The company is aware of the problem and is in the process of resolving it.
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