{"id":9536,"date":"2022-07-23T15:59:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T22:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9536"},"modified":"2023-07-26T22:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:04:56","slug":"google-assistant-hotword-beep-open-mic-notification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/23\/google-assistant-hotword-beep-open-mic-notification\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Assistant Hotword Beep \/ Mic-Open Notification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I upgraded from my Google Pixel 3 to a Pixel 5, the Google Assistant Open-Mic Notification, AKA the Google Assistant Hotword Beep stopped working. Moreso, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/android\/thread\/165930450\">the instructions<\/a> to turn it on using Switch Access didn&#8217;t work! Here is the fix!<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video or follow instructions below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Google Assistant Mic-Open Sound \/ Hotword Beep Workaround!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T8Q2vcfCVbc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Go to your Pixel 5&#8217;s Settings and look for &#8220;Accessibility: Accessibility&#8221; (don&#8217;t tap on the &#8220;Accessibility: Google Assistant&#8221; screen&#8230; yet!). Go to Switch Access. Turn on &#8220;Use Switch Access&#8221;, click to &#8220;Allow&#8221; it to have control of your device, click &#8220;X&#8221; in the upper right corner when it asks about choosing a switch type. At this point, the Mic-Open Notification <strong>should<\/strong> work but it might not! That was my case.<\/p>\n<p>Go to Settings and search for &#8220;Accessibility: Google Assistant&#8221; and tap on it. You&#8217;ll be at a screen that says &#8220;Accessibility, Mic-open notification, Mic-close notification&#8221;. Both will probably be turned on. Turn both options off. Then turn them on again. That was the magic! If that doesn&#8217;t do it immediately, definitely reboot your phone and you&#8217;ll be on your way!<\/p>\n<p>Now your phone should make a bell sound whenever you say &#8220;Ok Google&#8221; or &#8220;Hey Google&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I upgraded from my Google Pixel 3 to a Pixel 5, the Google Assistant Open-Mic Notification, AKA the Google Assistant Hotword Beep stopped working. Moreso, the instructions to turn it on using Switch Access didn&#8217;t work! Here is the fix! Watch the video or follow instructions below. Go to your Pixel 5&#8217;s Settings and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9536"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10120,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions\/10120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}